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Summary

Bottom layer of the vendor VFIO vGPU stack (this#322#363#364#321). Behavior-preserving refactor only — no lifecycle semantics change in this layer.

Kernel 6.8 hosts assign NVIDIA vGPUs through a vendor-specific VFIO interface instead of mdev, so the mdev-shaped seams get generalized before the new backend lands above:

  • VGPUDevice / VGPUFramework abstraction — mdev moves behind a framework dispatch (CreateVGPU / DestroyVGPU / DiscoverVGPU), with assignments described by a framework + device path instead of a bare mdev UUID.
  • Hypervisor wiring — QEMU receives the generalized vGPU path through VGPUDevicePath, while Cloud Hypervisor continues to receive the existing mdev path as a passthrough device.
  • Metadata — VF allocation tracked with a single field; instance metadata carries GPUFramework / GPUDevicePath alongside the mdev UUID.
  • QEMU args — vGPU attaches via sysfsdev, and the dead mdev branch is dropped from PCI passthrough args.

Testing

  • go build ./..., go vet clean
  • go test -race ./lib/devices/ ./lib/hypervisor/... and targeted lib/instances suites pass (TestSocketCacheKeyChangesWhenSocketIsRecreated and the network/image-dependent instances tests fail identically on the unmodified stack head in this environment)

Note

Medium Risk
Touches VM device attachment and vGPU create/destroy on instance create, start, stop, and delete; behavior should match mdev today but regressions could leak or fail to release GPU slots.

Overview
Introduces a framework-agnostic vGPU layer (VGPUDevice, VGPUFramework, CreateVGPU / DestroyVGPU) so mdev is one backend today and future VFIO-style assignments can plug in without rewriting instance lifecycle.

Instance flow now provisions and tears down vGPUs through that API, persists GPUFramework and GPUDevicePath (with helpers for legacy mdev UUID paths), and routes attachment via dedicated VGPUDevicePath on hypervisor.VMConfig instead of stuffing mdev sysfs paths into PCIDevices. QEMU always attaches vGPU with vfio-pci,sysfsdev=…; Cloud Hypervisor adds the path as a passthrough device entry.

SR-IOV VF JSON/API field has_mdev is renamed to allocated to mean “vGPU assigned on this VF,” and GPU slot counting follows the same rename.

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@yummybomb yummybomb changed the title hypeship/vgpu framework abstraction Abstract vGPU devices behind a framework dispatch Aug 6, 2026
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Cursor Bugbot has reviewed your changes using high effort and found 1 potential issue.

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if cfg.VGPUDevicePath != "" {
args = append(args, "-device", fmt.Sprintf("vfio-pci,sysfsdev=%s", cfg.VGPUDevicePath))
}

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MicroVM skips vGPU path check

Low Severity

MicroVMProfile.validateConfig still only rejects PCIDevices, but vGPU attachment now goes through VGPUDevicePath and QEMU always emits vfio-pci,sysfsdev=... for that field. A real config with only VGPUDevicePath set therefore passes validation even though microvm cannot support VFIO/vGPU.

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Stop and delete keep best-effort vGPU release (log and continue,
metadata always cleared) and start no longer releases a stale stored
assignment. Those behavior changes belong to the lifecycle-hardening
layer, not this behavior-preserving refactor.
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