On: Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system

[soulofmischief]

Same, I love Qubes' philosophy and UX, but GPU passthrough support was a dealbreaker in the end and I switched to a KVM system.

[TimeBearingDown → soulofmischief]

I’m pretty sure GPU passthrough does work in Qubes HVMs, although I haven’t tried it myself. Here are three quick and recent tutorials I found including one with a newer VirtualGL approach that offloads work instead of passing the entire card.

https://neowutran.ovh/qubes/articles/gaming_windows_hvm.html

https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/nvidia-gpu-passthrough-into-lin...

https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/seamless-gpu-passthrough-on-qub...

Yes, the passthrough is probably a huge avenue for attacks. Possibly VirtualGL too, I know less about that.

[soulofmischief → TimeBearingDown]

Does this fix the Code 14 issue with NVIDIA cards? That is why I had to switch to KVM back in 2016, as KVM has support for bypassing NVIDIA's "bug" which prevents using consumer cards in a virtual environment. I have been away from Qubes for 7 years now so I'd hope some form of improvement has been made.

[TimeBearingDown → soulofmischief]

Are you referring to Code 43?

I believe the NVIDIA drivers after version 465 may not have this issue.

Here’s a report of this working on Qubes/Xen: https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/qubes-gpu-passthrough/661/12

However you may need to hide the virtualization from some games or other software, where Qemu/KVM can be more flexible.

There’s a project and some discussion to use these with Qubes, but it’s early days: https://github.com/nrgaway/qubes-kvm-dev

https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/porting-qubes-to-hypervisors-ot...

[soulofmischief → TimeBearingDown]

Yes sorry, I meant 43. It's been a long time :)

> However you may need to hide the virtualization from some games or other software, where Qemu/KVM can be more flexible.

How prevalent is this? Is it basically just multiplayer games employing anticheat?

[TimeBearingDown → TimeBearingDown]

One more, site won’t let me edit.

https://neowutran.ovh/qubes/articles/gaming_windows_hvm.html

[Qwertious → TimeBearingDown]

That's the same as the first link in your previous comment. Did you manage to edit it after all?

[TimeBearingDown → Qwertious]

Yes, thank you.