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Successfully passed through my resurrected GTX 1080 to a Windows VM. Now time to actually make said VM usable.

  1. Ashiella

    Ashiella

    See what you need to do is to give me the 1080 so I can SLI which wont actually do anything for me

  2. Windows7ge

    Windows7ge

    Hardware pass-through and virtio drivers everywhere.

     

    What are you using for a hypervisor?

  3. 2FA

    2FA

    Using KVM/QEMU. Dedicated SSDs for the VM as well. Next step I'm working on is USB devices so I can continue set up.

  4. Windows7ge

    Windows7ge

    Oh wait, I was talking to you about virtualization a while ago wasn't I? Are you setting up Looking Glass?

  5. 2FA

    2FA

    Nah, that was my server we talked about, this is my desktop, but I ended up with XCP-ng for that and virtualized FreeNAS with a passed through HBA. Probably looking at setting up Looking Glass for my Windows VM.

  6. Windows7ge

    Windows7ge

    What GNU/Linux distro?

  7. 2FA

    2FA

    Arch

  8. Windows7ge

    Windows7ge

    Ah, I can't be of significant help then. I wrote a tutorial for Debian on how to set this up.

     

    Don't forget to enable hugepages and do CPU pinning. You'll get a considerable performance boost.

  9. 2FA

    2FA

    Yep, I'm using systemd-boot as well which isn't included in most guides but I managed to figure it out. Actually ended up being simpler I think. Got hugepages already taken care of.

  10. Windows7ge

    Windows7ge

    CPU pinning is easy. Just install lstopo and set Memory Interleave in your BIOS from Auto -> Channel.

    The code for the .XML file can get a bit weird though.

     

    I do expect that you'll run into the same problem I did on Debian where once you connect Looking Glass to the VM that you lose the ability to launch the VM. Don't know if the guide you're following covers the security changes you have to make.

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