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**Q:** How to request quota for NP VMs?
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**A:**Please follow this page [Increase VM-family vCPU quotas](../azure-portal/supportability/per-vm-quota-requests.md). NP VMs are available in East US, West US2, West Europe, SouthEast Asia, and SouthCentral US.
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**A:**Follow this page [Increase VM-family vCPU quotas](../azure-portal/supportability/per-vm-quota-requests.md). NP VMs are available in East US, West US2, West Europe, SouthEast Asia, and SouthCentral US.
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**Q:** What version of Vitis should I use?
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**A:** Xilinx recommends [Vitis 2022.1](https://www.xilinx.com/products/design-tools/vitis/vitis-platform.html), you can also use the Development VM marketplace options (Vitis 2022.1 Development VM for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and CentOS 7.8)
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**Q:** Do I need to use NP VMs to develop my solution?
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**A:** No, you can develop on-premises and deploy to the cloud. Please make sure to follow the [attestation documentation](./field-programmable-gate-arrays-attestation.md) to deploy on NP VMs.
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**A:** No, you can develop on-premises and deploy to the cloud. Make sure to follow the [attestation documentation](./field-programmable-gate-arrays-attestation.md) to deploy on NP VMs.
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**Q:** What shell version is supported and how can I get the development files?
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**A:** The FPGAs in Azure NP VMs support Xilinx Shell 2.1 (gen3x16-xdma-shell_2.1). See Xilinx Page [Xilinx/Azure with Alveo U250](https://www.xilinx.com/microsoft-azure.htm) to get the development shell files.
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**Q:** Which file returned from attestation should I use when programming my FPGA in an NP VM?
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**A:** Attestation returns two xclbins, **design.bit.xclbin** and **design.azure.xclbin**. Please use**design.azure.xclbin**.
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**A:** Attestation returns two xclbins, **design.bit.xclbin** and **design.azure.xclbin**. Use**design.azure.xclbin**.
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**Q:** Where should I get all the XRT / Platform files?
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**A:**Please visit Xilinx's [Microsoft-Azure](https://www.xilinx.com/microsoft-azure.html) site for all files.
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**A:**Visit Xilinx's [Microsoft-Azure](https://www.xilinx.com/microsoft-azure.html) site for all files.
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**Q:** What Version of XRT should I use?
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**Q:** What are the differences between OnPrem and NP VMs?
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**Q:** What are the differences between on-premise FPGAs and NP VMs?
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<b>- Regarding XOCL/XCLMGMT: </b>
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On Azure NP VMs, only the role endpoint (Device ID 5005), which uses the XOCL driver, is present.
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OnPrem FPGA, both the management endpoint (Device ID 5004) and role endpoint (Device ID 5005), which use the XCLMGMT and XOCL drivers respectively, are present.
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In on-premise FPGAs, both the management endpoint (Device ID 5004) and role endpoint (Device ID 5005), which use the XCLMGMT and XOCL drivers respectively, are present.
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<b>- Regarding XRT: </b>
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On Azure NP VMs, the XDMA 2.1 platform only supports Host_Mem(SB).
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To enable Host_Mem(SB) (up to 1Gb RAM): sudo xbutil host_mem --enable --size 1g
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To enable Host_Mem(SB) (up to 1-Gb RAM): sudo xbutil host_mem --enable --size 1g
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To disable Host_Mem(SB): sudo xbutil host_mem --disable
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On-premise FPGA in Linux exposes
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[M2M data transfer](https://xilinx.github.io/XRT/master/html/m2m.html).
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