Introduction

IDV for Education Solution is a software implementation of Intelligent Desktop Virtualization (IDV) designed specifically for education use cases to address the need for cost-effective setup with optimized performance. This project leverages the capability of graphics SR-IOV virtualization technology on Intel platforms and open-source software.

Graphics SR-IOV is Intel’s virtualization technology for graphics and is available starting from the 12th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors (Alder Lake) platform.

The key benefits of this technology are:

• This is a standard method of sharing the physical GPU with virtual machines, thus allowing efficient use of GPU resources in a virtual system.
• Improved video transcode and media AI analytic workloads performance in virtual machines.
• Supports up to 4 independent display outputs and 7 virtualized GPU functions.
• Supports multiple guest operating systems (for example, Windows* and Linux*).

The IDV for Education Solution also provides:

• Teachers: an easy-to-use digital education solution for computer labs and classrooms with centralized management software that manages and controls IDV Guests.
• System Integrators: an easy mass provisioning method to pre-provision bare metal IDV Hosts and IDV Guests before actual deployments to the schools.