Good info! I was going to ask - 512K for both bios on K2 and 1 megaBYTE (256k x 4) for K1 - is that a normal size for uefi?
btw - grid K1 for $1800 (several)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00CA5GCZ0/sr=8-1/qid=1386027459 here's a grid K2 for $1500'ish :
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NVIDIA-900-52055-0020-000-GRID-K2-8GB-Graphics-Card-by-nVidia-/321257272457?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4acc6cf489which is the actually more than K2's/Tesla K10/K20 go for.
In case you want to buy one and hack away at it.
I'd trade my K2 for a K1 since I need many low-end vm's over [many] high end vm's. 16gb of GDDR3 would do me better than 8GB of GDDR5 for doing firefox/office eh.
VGX is wanted because you use nvidia drivers and NVIDIA bios, and i think that is the only way i'll ever be able to virtualize OSX [client/server] with full QE/CI graphics.
If you have an idea how to virtualize several server/client OSX vm's - i'm all ears, honestly I'd probably be happy with parallels if it supports ISCSI or FCoE/FC storage (thin) and tons of ram and remote access (VNC) with sound and some sort of GPU sharing tech?
I plan to run it on MAC PRO so it would be 100% legal as esxi 5.5 works fine.
The problem with using PASS-THROUGH VGA mode is the lack of vmotion and snapshot veeam backups. There is no VSGA(shared) driver for OSX so you end up with sVGA2 no QE/CI which is rather useless for a vm.
this is the HP card i'm talking bout :
-- really good PDF on the situation with graphics virtualization by HP
http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetPDF.aspx%2F4AA4-1701ENW.pdfso 4 Quadro K3000m PCI ID: 10de:11be <-- notice the id? Can you strap that??