On: QEMU v4.0.0 released

[1125]

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 → 1125]

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.

[usernam33 → scbrg]

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

[PudgePacket → scbrg]

You might be able to find some info here https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/.

[scbrg → PudgePacket]

This seems very helpful, yes. Thanks a bunch for posting!

[1125 → scbrg]

I posted about this on my blog here: 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-cons...

Another whole website about this topic (no joke): https://passthroughpo.st/

[pizza234 → scbrg]

An overall good introduction/guide is: 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_OVM....

[kawsper → 1125]

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.