Intel FPGA PAC D5005 - Operating System

As a follow up to my own question, if I install a newer OS on our HW and then install Qemu or similar and install my older RHEL/CentOS on the VM. Is it likely to be problematic to access the FPGA through a guest OS like this.

Cheers,

Craig

Hi Craig,

The documentation that you were referring to is actually an archived version of the older acceleration stack for D5005. We have already transition to Open FPGA Stack (OFS) that can support D5005 and it is based on either RHEL, CENTOS 8 stream, Ubuntu 22.04 (just example of the later OS versions/ different OS after Centos 7).

You might want to refer to this manuals instead for the setup (https://ofs.github.io/ofs-2024.1-1/hw/doc_modules/contents_s10_pcie_attach/)

Just one catch though, as I know you might plan to run the HE library (https://github.com/intel/hexl-fpga) , this library is build based on Centos 7 dependencies so I'm suspecting you might run into dependency build issues when building the HE acceleration library

It might be possible that you still can build this on Centos 8 stream without any issues, but it was not tested/verified before.

As for your follow up question on virtual machine , you can refer to the documentation (https://ofs.github.io/ofs-2024.1-1/d5005/ug_kvm/) . Technically you should be able to build on VM Centos 7 access the link back to the host machine FPGA

Thanks

Regards

Kian