# nestrilabs/virtio-nvgpu

> An experimental virtio device giving KVM guests near-native NVIDIA GPU access by forwarding driver ioctls, bypassing API-level translation. Aimed at headless streaming: a compositor in the VM renders and encodes frames on the GPU.

- Magnitude: 5.2 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 70 total · +0 stars today, ≈ 37 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: DevOps & infrastructure · Language: Rust · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2026-03-31 · Last push: 2026-09-24
- GitHub: https://github.com/nestrilabs/virtio-nvgpu · Homepage: https://nestri.io · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/nestrilabs/virtio-nvgpu

## Useful for

- Run several KVM guests on one NVIDIA card for parallel rendering and H.264 encoding
- Build headless game streaming from a VM with rendering and NVENC inside the guest
- Benchmark Vulkan rendering in a guest against bare metal

## Why it’s here

- 0 stars so far today, about 37 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 0 per day, so that's 37× as much.
- Before this, the repository barely got any stars — about 0 per day.
- The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
- Hacker News: “Virtio-nvgpu: Near-native Nvidia GPU access inside a KVM guest” — 56 points, 5 h ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 1
- Issues and pull requests: 1
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 15 per day
- Usual pace: 0 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 12

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-08-26 … 2026-09-24: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 68, 0

## Hacker News

- Virtio-nvgpu: Near-native Nvidia GPU access inside a KVM guest — 56 points, 22 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824864

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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Data as of 2026-09-24 06:23 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.