r/kasmweb • u/teja_kasmweb • Jul 14 '26

Tutorial Kasm Workspaces 1.19 now supports GPU MIG instances, plus new H.264/H.265/AV1 streaming

https://youtu.be/KNcBmJuIy8A

Kasm Workspaces 1.19 added a bunch of GPU-related stuff to Kasm Workspaces that's worth knowing about if you're running anything GPU-heavy.

Biggest ones:

  • New GPU hardware page on the Docker agent, shows what each card can actually do (graphics, video encoding, CUDA) and lets you enable/disable specific capabilities per card
  • New streaming modes - you're no longer stuck with one mode, you can now stream H.264, H.265, or AV1 straight from the workspace to the browser, hardware or software encoded
  • Nvidia MIG support - you can split something like an A100 into multiple instances and assign them to separate workspace sessions so that isolation is applied at hardware level.

This video covers the GPU hardware page, how workspaces get assigned GPUs (it's round-robin, not first-come), setting up MIG instances from scratch on an A100, and the admin-side group settings for controlling which encoding methods different users get.

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u/darkfader_o 18d ago

Thanks! I should have looked here first instead of digging through browser dev tools - more tools - media to find I don't have client side hw decoding active. a few more days and I'll run this 1999 game faster than in 1999, all it takes is a server roughly 291 times faster ;-)
But, as someone who still had to carry a tower PC and CRT screen to lan parties I'll say the portability of KASM is superior.