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I'm using it in conjunction with PCI passthrough instead of dual boot. I've been running Windows 10 for more than a year now and played all kinds of AAA titles

by 1125 7y ago

I'm using it in conjunction with PCI passthrough instead of dual boot. I've been running Windows 10 for more than a year now and played all kinds of AAA titles successfully. The performance-loss seems minimal. Recently I managed to get a second GPU and spin up another VM, so now me and my partner can play on the same machine, heaving each a keyboard, mouse and screen.

scbrg 7y ago
Do you have any hints on how to set up a similar system? Links, guides, gotchas, whatnot? I've seen someone mention this setup before (perhaps it was you?) and I'm sure I'm not the only one interested in running something similar.
- PudgePacket 7y ago
  You might be able to find some info here https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/ https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/.
  - scbrg 7y ago
    This seems very helpful, yes. Thanks a bunch for posting!
- usernam33 7y ago
  I have written a "guide" for myself to replicate my setup. It is by no means perfect, but maybe it helps: https://gitlab.com/snippets/1678554 https://gitlab.com/snippets/1678554
- pizza234 7y ago
  An overall good introduction/guide is: https://github.com/saveriomiroddi/vga-passthrough https://github.com/saveriomiroddi/vga-passthrough. The most complete guide is probably the Arch Linux one: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVM....
- 1125 7y ago
  I posted about this on my blog here: https://1125.io/#/2019-01-21_21:58_Playing_within_a_Windows_VM_on_Linux_using_PCI-Passthrough.md https://1125.io/#/2019-01-21_21:58_Playing_within_a_Windows_... Also I recently discovered some very in-depth blog posts here: https://heiko-sieger.info/iommu-groups-what-you-need-to-consider/ https://heiko-sieger.info/iommu-groups-what-you-need-to-cons... Another whole website about this topic (no joke): https://passthroughpo.st/ https://passthroughpo.st/
kawsper 7y ago
I do the same, I used to run my VMs off of ZFS with spinning disks, but that was too slow at times, so my last upgrade has been giving the VMs their own SSDs and that has worked out great, I then backup the VMs to ZFS and snapshot them.

by 1125 7y ago

scbrg 7y ago

Do you have any hints on how to set up a similar system? Links, guides, gotchas, whatnot? I've seen someone mention this setup before (perhaps it was you?) and I'm sure I'm not the only one interested in running something similar.

PudgePacket 7y ago
You might be able to find some info here https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/ https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/.
- scbrg 7y ago
  This seems very helpful, yes. Thanks a bunch for posting!
usernam33 7y ago
I have written a "guide" for myself to replicate my setup. It is by no means perfect, but maybe it helps: https://gitlab.com/snippets/1678554 https://gitlab.com/snippets/1678554
pizza234 7y ago
An overall good introduction/guide is: https://github.com/saveriomiroddi/vga-passthrough https://github.com/saveriomiroddi/vga-passthrough. The most complete guide is probably the Arch Linux one: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVM....
1125 7y ago
I posted about this on my blog here: https://1125.io/#/2019-01-21_21:58_Playing_within_a_Windows_VM_on_Linux_using_PCI-Passthrough.md https://1125.io/#/2019-01-21_21:58_Playing_within_a_Windows_... Also I recently discovered some very in-depth blog posts here: https://heiko-sieger.info/iommu-groups-what-you-need-to-consider/ https://heiko-sieger.info/iommu-groups-what-you-need-to-cons... Another whole website about this topic (no joke): https://passthroughpo.st/ https://passthroughpo.st/

kawsper 7y ago

I do the same, I used to run my VMs off of ZFS with spinning disks, but that was too slow at times, so my last upgrade has been giving the VMs their own SSDs and that has worked out great, I then backup the VMs to ZFS and snapshot them.