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One physical GPU split into virtual functions handed to separate Windows desktops

Licence-Free Windows VDI on Proxmox with an Intel Arc Pro B50 — and the Firmware Limit That Stopped It

Intel’s Arc Pro cards do SR-IOV natively, with no vGPU licence to buy — which makes a licence-free Windows VDI on Proxmox genuinely possible. The whole build on a B50, the Windows-first bootstrap problem, why the firmware caps it at two virtual functions, and how many each card in the B-series gives you.

A small aperture sliding over a large framebuffer, beside the whole framebuffer mapped at once

PCIe Resizable BAR and Modern GPUs — Intel Arc, NVIDIA and AMD

Resizable BAR lets the CPU map a GPU’s whole framebuffer instead of peering at it through a 256MB window. Intel calls it required for Arc, NVIDIA enables it per game, AMD sells it as Smart Access Memory — and for AI work it changes the transfer, not the maths.