Requirement based exposure of engines of a graphics processing unit (gpu) to a virtual machine (vm) consolidated on a computing platform

A non-transitory medium, readable through a computing platform and including instructions embodied therein that are executable through the computing platform, comprising:

• instructions to execute a driver component on a hypervisor of the computing platform comprising a GPU, the hypervisor being configured to consolidate a plurality of VMs on the computing platform comprising the GPU and to virtualize resources thereof, and the GPU executing a plurality of engines thereon;
• instructions to execute an instance of the driver component in each of the plurality of VMs;
• instructions to define, through the hypervisor, a data path between a VM and a subset of the engines of the GPU in a configuration register associated with the VM in accordance with a requirement of an application executing on the VM;
• instructions to read, through the instance of the driver component in the VM, an emulated version of the configuration register during loading thereof;
• and
• instructions to limit, through the hypervisor, at least one processing functionality provided to the VM based on solely exposing the subset of the engines of the GPU to the application executing thereon in accordance with the data path definition in the configuration register.

A computing platform comprising:

• a memory;
• a GPU communicatively coupled to the memory, the GPU being configured to execute a plurality of engines thereon;
• and
• a hypervisor configured to consolidate a plurality of VMs on the computing platform and to virtualize resources thereof, the hypervisor including a driver component executing thereon, each of the plurality of VMs executing an instance of the driver component thereon, and the hypervisor further being configured to:
• define a data path between a VM and a subset of the engines of the GPU in a configuration register associated with the VM in accordance with a requirement of an application executing on the VM, and
• limit at least one processing functionality provided to the VM based on solely exposing the subset of the engines of the GPU to the application executing thereon in accordance with the data path definition in the configuration register,
• wherein the instance of the driver component in the VM is configured to read an emulated version of the configuration register during loading thereof.