[1]SR-IOV for virtualization with the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver will only be supported on the Arc Pro products and -- unfortunately -- not the consumer Arc B-Series graphics cards.

While [2]SR-IOV will be found with Panther Lake Xe3 graphics and other select integrated graphics, when it comes to the [3]Battlemage discrete graphics processors it will only be supported with the Arc Pro products.

Upstreamed for Linux 6.17 was [4]enabling SR-IOV support for Battlemage GPUs with the Xe kernel graphics driver. That followed Intel earlier this year promoting SR-IOV for virtualization as part of [5]the Project Battlematrix plans :

With the enablement patches for Linux it only talked of SR-IOV enablement for "Battlemage" without mentioning any specific products. Thus many Linux users were hopeful that SR-IOV would also be coming to the consumer Battlemage graphics cards like the [6]Arc B580 and [7]Arc B570 .

I received confirmation from Intel today that SR-IOV will only be supported with their Pro products. So, unfortunately, like with AMD and NVIDIA you will need to be using the professional product SKUs for SR-IOV with Intel discrete graphics cards.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/SR-IOV

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-SR-IOV-PTL-ARL-State

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Battlemage

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Enables-BMG-SR-IOV-Linux

[5] https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-pro-b-series

[6] https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-b580-gpu-compute

[7] https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-b570-linux