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Budget (including currency): 3000 euros (if required could go a bit higher but would rather stay under) Country: Spain Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: VMs, Programming, Game Dev, Streaming, heavily modded Minecraft and KSP, Forza, City Skyline, etc... Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): pcpartpicker: https://es.pcpartpicker.com/list/WVdFL9 Hello everyone I'm trying to build my first PC in 10 years. I haven't really been on top of the hardware but after a few days looking around I think I got a basic gist of the new parts. My goal is to have a machine with linux for work, capable of running a VM with GPU pass through for gaming. I plan also to try and start streaming. I was going to have the games running on the VM and OBS on my main OS streaming it's contents. Haven't looked much into it or if it is even a good idea/feasible. If anyone has experience with this and could validate the idea I'd appreciate. I'm also open to receive any guidance you may have. The rational for the parts is as follows: CPU: I wanted a cpu with enough cores and power to pass to the VMs without impacting much the main OS (8 for VM and 4 for Main OS). The 7900 non-x looked good and didn't consume too much power. CPU Cooler: I have no idea how to pick the right cooler. Not sure if I should go with a AIO or air cooler. Any suggestions are appreciated. GPU: Honestly, I want amd and 7900 xtx was their best. As for sapphire pulse, it was one of the cheapest and I kinda liked the look. Never heard of the company but a quick search said they where ok. Also considered powercolor but comparing the two I got the impression the Sapphire one was better. MOBO: I went with an X670e for the PCIe 5 for "future proof". I plan to keep this system a long time and wish to have good upgrade-ability prospects. I also heard that some hardware isn't has issues with VFIO and this motherboard at least allows for IOMMU group separation and could be a good bet for it. If anyone has experience with it or has a better suggestion I'm all ears. RAM: I wanted 64 so I can send half of it to the VM Storage: I know there isn't much reason for it now but I was going to have a PCI gen5 ssd 1TB for the main OS and a gen4 2TB for the VM. I also have some drives from my previous computer I'd be plugging in. The rest: Just pieces that fit with the above This is part of a major upgrade I'm doing where I'll also be changing monitors getting some arm support for them and possibly a desk. I plan to have dual 1440p monitors with 144htz. If you have any you recommend don't hesitate to post them. I'm thinking of getting the cheapest thought to be fair. (not included in budget above) Any help or suggestions you may have are more than appreciated.

Budget (including currency): 1500€ - I am willing to go a little bit (max. 100€-150€) beyond that budget for more performance Country: Austria Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Programming/Game Dev, Web surfing, 1440p High Gaming (Minecraft, GTA V, Simulators like Euro Truck Simulator 2), VR (Beatsaber, Boneworks, ...) - I really like high definition gaming Existing PC: Hi, I want to upgrade my current PC setup and I would like your help with it but I have some "special" requirements: I switched from Windows 10 to Linux (Linux Mint with Cinnamon) as my primary OS a year ago. I am currently using a dual boot setup with Windows 10. I would like to change this setup: New AMD Card for Linux and my old NVIDIA for a Windows VM (VFIO style + Evdev for peripherals + PulseAudio for sound). => This means I need: An AMD Graphics Card so I can finally use Wayland A high wattage Power Supply with maybe room for a GPU upgrade for the VM down the line (1000W to 1200W?) A Motherboard which can handle two Graphics Cards regarding the PCIe Slots (preferably at least Gen 4 x8 on both PCIe slots for the Cards if something like this exists) [OPTIONAL] USB PCIe Card with separate USB Controller for the VM RGB, WIFI and a tempered glass window in the case is not needed I still would like to reuse some of my old parts: Peripherals Monitors Storage Fans GPU for my Windows VM Maybe the Case - I would prefer a Case with a built in GPU support bracket CPU Cooler??? - Not sure about that and if I would need an upgrade package for mounting I tried my stab at configuring an AMD build myself with my local prices sourced from https://geizhals.at/ (mylemon as vendor most of the time): Feel free to throw this build over board and start fresh. I am very grateful for any contributions.

I dual boot windows and linux. In order to use my windows machine without leaving linux I virtualize my main machine by passing through the nvme and sata controllers required. This would work all and well but I moved from intel to amd and now it doesn't. The general process is the vm will run for a few minutes then crash and startup again automatically. The processes running or the stress the hardware is under doesn't appear to affect the outcome. Specs, Asus X570-e gaming Wifi-II Amd Ryzen 7 2700X Nvidia 2080 Super ( For guest) Radeon R7 260X (For host) Samsung 970 Evo 500GB (For guest, with it's own controller) 3 different drives (For Guest, in their own controller) This is the vms xml config: <domain type="kvm"> <name>Win10-OG</name> <uuid>ecca1e65-6fc1-4c4a-b041-566c32aa8707</uuid> <metadata> <libosinfo:libosinfo xmlns:libosinfo="http://libosinfo.org/xmlns/libvirt/domain/1.0"> <libosinfo:os id="http://microsoft.com/win/10"/> </libosinfo:libosinfo> </metadata> <memory unit="KiB">24576000</memory> <currentMemory unit="KiB">24576000</currentMemory> <vcpu placement="static">12</vcpu> <os> <type arch="x86_64" machine="pc-q35-6.2">hvm</type> <loader readonly="yes" type="pflash">/usr/share/edk2-ovmf/x64/OVMF_CODE.fd</loader> <nvram>/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/nvram/Win10-OG_VARS.fd</nvram> <bootmenu enable="yes"/> </os> <features> <acpi/> <apic/> <hyperv mode="custom"> <relaxed state="on"/> <vapic state="on"/> <spinlocks state="on" retries="8191"/> </hyperv> <vmport state="off"/> </features> <cpu mode="host-passthrough" check="partial" migratable="on"> <topology sockets="1" dies="1" cores="6" threads="2"/> </cpu> <clock offset="localtime"> <timer name="rtc" tickpolicy="catchup"/> <timer name="pit" tickpolicy="delay"/> <timer name="hpet" present="no"/> <timer name="hypervclock" present="yes"/> </clock> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>destroy</on_crash> <pm> <suspend-to-mem enabled="no"/> <suspend-to-disk enabled="no"/> </pm> <devices> <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator> <controller type="usb" index="0" model="qemu-xhci" ports="15"> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x02" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/> </controller> <controller type="sata" index="0"> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x1f" function="0x2"/> </controller> <controller type="pci" index="0" model="pcie-root"/> <controller type="pci" index="1" model="pcie-root-port"> <model name="pcie-root-port"/> <target chassis="1" port="0x8"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x01" function="0x0" multifunction="on"/> </controller> <controller type="pci" index="2" model="pcie-root-port"> <model name="pcie-root-port"/> <target chassis="2" port="0x9"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x01" function="0x1"/> </controller> <controller type="pci" index="3" model="pcie-root-port"> <model name="pcie-root-port"/> <target chassis="3" port="0xa"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x01" function="0x2"/> </controller> <controller type="pci" index="4" model="pcie-root-port"> <model name="pcie-root-port"/> <target chassis="4" port="0xb"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x01" function="0x3"/> </controller> <controller type="pci" index="5" model="pcie-root-port"> <model name="pcie-root-port"/> <target chassis="5" port="0xc"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x01" function="0x4"/> </controller> <controller type="pci" index="6" model="pcie-root-port"> <model name="pcie-root-port"/> <target chassis="6" port="0xd"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x01" function="0x5"/> </controller> <controller type="pci" index="7" model="pcie-root-port"> <model name="pcie-root-port"/> <target chassis="7" port="0xe"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x01" function="0x6"/> </controller> <controller type="pci" index="8" model="pcie-root-port"> <model name="pcie-root-port"/> <target chassis="8" port="0xf"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x01" function="0x7"/> </controller> <controller type="pci" index="9" model="pcie-root-port"> <model name="pcie-root-port"/> <target chassis="9" port="0x10"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x02" function="0x0" multifunction="on"/> </controller> <controller type="pci" index="10" model="pcie-root-port"> <model name="pcie-root-port"/> <target chassis="10" port="0x11"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x02" function="0x1"/> </controller> <controller type="pci" index="11" model="pcie-root-port"> <model name="pcie-root-port"/> <target chassis="11" port="0x12"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x02" function="0x2"/> </controller> <controller type="pci" index="12" model="pcie-to-pci-bridge"> <model name="pcie-pci-bridge"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x0a" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/> </controller> <controller type="pci" index="13" model="pcie-root-port"> <model name="pcie-root-port"/> <target chassis="13" port="0x13"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x02" function="0x3"/> </controller> <controller type="virtio-serial" index="0"> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x0d" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/> </controller> <interface type="network"> <mac address="52:54:00:99:66:e0"/> <source network="default"/> <model type="virtio"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x01" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/> </interface> <channel type="spicevmc"> <target type="virtio" name="com.redhat.spice.0"/> <address type="virtio-serial" controller="0" bus="0" port="1"/> </channel> <input type="mouse" bus="ps2"/> <input type="keyboard" bus="virtio"> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x0b" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/> </input> <input type="keyboard" bus="ps2"/> <graphics type="spice" autoport="yes"> <listen type="address"/> <image compression="off"/> <gl enable="no"/> </graphics> <sound model="ich9"> <codec type="micro"/> <audio id="1"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x1b" function="0x0"/> </sound> <audio id="1" type="pulseaudio" serverName="/run/user/1000/pulse/native"/> <video> <model type="none"/> </video> <hostdev mode="subsystem" type="pci" managed="yes"> <source> <address domain="0x0000" bus="0x04" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/> </source> <boot order="1"/> <rom bar="off"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x03" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode="subsystem" type="pci" managed="yes"> <source> <address domain="0x0000" bus="0x0a" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/> </source> <rom bar="off"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x04" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode="subsystem" type="pci" managed="yes"> <source> <address domain="0x0000" bus="0x0b" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/> </source> <rom bar="off"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x05" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode="subsystem" type="pci" managed="yes"> <source> <address domain="0x0000" bus="0x0b" slot="0x00" function="0x1"/> </source> <rom bar="off"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x06" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode="subsystem" type="pci" managed="yes"> <source> <address domain="0x0000" bus="0x0b" slot="0x00" function="0x2"/> </source> <rom bar="off"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x07" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode="subsystem" type="pci" managed="yes"> <source> <address domain="0x0000" bus="0x0b" slot="0x00" function="0x3"/> </source> <rom bar="off"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x08" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode="subsystem" type="usb" managed="yes"> <source> <vendor id="0x046d"/> <product id="0xc077"/> </source> <address type="usb" bus="0" port="1"/> </hostdev> <memballoon model="virtio"> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x09" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/> </memballoon> <shmem name="looking-glass"> <model type="ivshmem-plain"/> <size unit="M">128</size> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x0c" slot="0x01" function="0x0"/> </shmem> </devices> </domain> This is the latest log from /var/log/libvirt/qemu/Win10-OG.log: 2022-02-03 16:01:06.105+0000: starting up libvirt version: 8.0.0, qemu version: 6.2.0, kernel: 5.16.5-arch1-1, hostname: Arch-Main.localdomain LC_ALL=C \ PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin \ HOME=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-2-Win10-OG \ XDG_DATA_HOME=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-2-Win10-OG/.local/share \ XDG_CACHE_HOME=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-2-Win10-OG/.cache \ XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-2-Win10-OG/.config \ /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 \ -name guest=Win10-OG,debug-threads=on \ -S \ -object '{"qom-type":"secret","id":"masterKey0","format":"raw","file":"/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-2-Win10-OG/master-key.aes"}' \ -blockdev '{"driver":"file","filename":"/usr/share/edk2-ovmf/x64/OVMF_CODE.fd","node-name":"libvirt-pflash0-storage","auto-read-only":true,"discard":"unmap"}' \ -blockdev '{"node-name":"libvirt-pflash0-format","read-only":true,"driver":"raw","file":"libvirt-pflash0-storage"}' \ -blockdev '{"driver":"file","filename":"/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/nvram/Win10-OG_VARS.fd","node-name":"libvirt-pflash1-storage","auto-read-only":true,"discard":"unmap"}' \ -blockdev '{"node-name":"libvirt-pflash1-format","read-only":false,"driver":"raw","file":"libvirt-pflash1-storage"}' \ -machine pc-q35-6.2,usb=off,vmport=off,dump-guest-core=off,pflash0=libvirt-pflash0-format,pflash1=libvirt-pflash1-format,memory-backend=pc.ram \ -accel kvm \ -cpu EPYC-Rome,x2apic=on,tsc-deadline=on,hypervisor=on,tsc-adjust=on,arch-capabilities=on,xsaves=on,cmp-legacy=on,virt-ssbd=on,tsc-scale=on,svme-addr-chk=on,rdctl-no=on,skip-l1dfl-vmentry=on,mds-no=on,pschange-mc-no=on,clwb=off,umip=off,rdpid=off,wbnoinvd=off,amd-stibp=off,hv-time=on,hv-relaxed=on,hv-vapic=on,hv-spinlocks=0x1fff \ -m 24000 \ -object '{"qom-type":"memory-backend-ram","id":"pc.ram","size":25165824000}' \ -overcommit mem-lock=off \ -smp 12,sockets=1,dies=1,cores=6,threads=2 \ -uuid ecca1e65-6fc1-4c4a-b041-566c32aa8707 \ -no-user-config \ -nodefaults \ -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,fd=32,server=on,wait=off \ -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control \ -rtc base=localtime,driftfix=slew \ -global kvm-pit.lost_tick_policy=delay \ -no-hpet \ -no-shutdown \ -global ICH9-LPC.disable_s3=1 \ -global ICH9-LPC.disable_s4=1 \ -boot menu=on,strict=on \ -device pcie-root-port,port=8,chassis=1,id=pci.1,bus=pcie.0,multifunction=on,addr=0x1 \ -device pcie-root-port,port=9,chassis=2,id=pci.2,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x1.0x1 \ -device pcie-root-port,port=10,chassis=3,id=pci.3,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x1.0x2 \ -device pcie-root-port,port=11,chassis=4,id=pci.4,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x1.0x3 \ -device pcie-root-port,port=12,chassis=5,id=pci.5,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x1.0x4 \ -device pcie-root-port,port=13,chassis=6,id=pci.6,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x1.0x5 \ -device pcie-root-port,port=14,chassis=7,id=pci.7,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x1.0x6 \ -device pcie-root-port,port=15,chassis=8,id=pci.8,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x1.0x7 \ -device pcie-root-port,port=16,chassis=9,id=pci.9,bus=pcie.0,multifunction=on,addr=0x2 \ -device pcie-root-port,port=17,chassis=10,id=pci.10,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x2.0x1 \ -device pcie-root-port,port=18,chassis=11,id=pci.11,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x2.0x2 \ -device pcie-pci-bridge,id=pci.12,bus=pci.10,addr=0x0 \ -device pcie-root-port,port=19,chassis=13,id=pci.13,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x2.0x3 \ -device qemu-xhci,p2=15,p3=15,id=usb,bus=pci.2,addr=0x0 \ -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,bus=pci.13,addr=0x0 \ -netdev tap,fd=33,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfd=35 \ -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:99:66:e0,bus=pci.1,addr=0x0 \ -chardev spicevmc,id=charchannel0,name=vdagent \ -device virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel0,id=channel0,name=com.redhat.spice.0 \ -device virtio-keyboard-pci,id=input1,bus=pci.11,addr=0x0 \ -audiodev '{"id":"audio1","driver":"pa","server":"/run/user/1000/pulse/native"}' \ -spice port=5900,addr=127.0.0.1,disable-ticketing=on,image-compression=off,seamless-migration=on \ -device ich9-intel-hda,id=sound0,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x1b \ -device hda-micro,id=sound0-codec0,bus=sound0.0,cad=0,audiodev=audio1 \ -device vfio-pci,host=0000:04:00.0,id=hostdev0,bootindex=1,bus=pci.3,addr=0x0,rombar=0 \ -device vfio-pci,host=0000:0a:00.0,id=hostdev1,bus=pci.4,addr=0x0,rombar=0 \ -device vfio-pci,host=0000:0b:00.0,id=hostdev2,bus=pci.5,addr=0x0,rombar=0 \ -device vfio-pci,host=0000:0b:00.1,id=hostdev3,bus=pci.6,addr=0x0,rombar=0 \ -device vfio-pci,host=0000:0b:00.2,id=hostdev4,bus=pci.7,addr=0x0,rombar=0 \ -device vfio-pci,host=0000:0b:00.3,id=hostdev5,bus=pci.8,addr=0x0,rombar=0 \ -device usb-host,hostdevice=/dev/bus/usb/003/004,id=hostdev6,bus=usb.0,port=1 \ -device usb-host,hostdevice=/dev/bus/usb/005/004,id=hostdev7,bus=usb.0,port=2 \ -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.9,addr=0x0 \ -sandbox on,obsolete=deny,elevateprivileges=deny,spawn=deny,resourcecontrol=deny \ -object '{"qom-type":"memory-backend-file","id":"shmmem-shmem0","mem-path":"/dev/shm/looking-glass","size":134217728,"share":true}' \ -device ivshmem-plain,id=shmem0,memdev=shmmem-shmem0,bus=pci.12,addr=0x1 \ -msg timestamp=on 2022-02-03T16:01:06.250607Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: This feature depends on other features that were not requested: CPUID.8000000AH:EDX.tsc-scale [bit 4] 2022-02-03T16:01:06.250666Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: This feature depends on other features that were not requested: CPUID.8000000AH:EDX.svme-addr-chk [bit 28] 2022-02-03T16:01:06.251329Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: This feature depends on other features that were not requested: CPUID.8000000AH:EDX.tsc-scale [bit 4] 2022-02-03T16:01:06.251341Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: This feature depends on other features that were not requested: CPUID.8000000AH:EDX.svme-addr-chk [bit 28] 2022-02-03T16:01:06.251748Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: This feature depends on other features that were not requested: CPUID.8000000AH:EDX.tsc-scale [bit 4] 2022-02-03T16:01:06.251757Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: This feature depends on other features that were not requested: CPUID.8000000AH:EDX.svme-addr-chk [bit 28] 2022-02-03T16:01:06.252104Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: This feature depends on other features that were not requested: CPUID.8000000AH:EDX.tsc-scale [bit 4] 2022-02-03T16:01:06.252114Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: This feature depends on other features that were not requested: CPUID.8000000AH:EDX.svme-addr-chk [bit 28] 2022-02-03T16:01:06.252436Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: This feature depends on other features that were not requested: CPUID.8000000AH:EDX.tsc-scale [bit 4] 2022-02-03T16:01:06.252446Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: This feature depends on other features that were not requested: CPUID.8000000AH:EDX.svme-addr-chk [bit 28] 2022-02-03T16:01:06.252779Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: This feature depends on other features that were not requested: CPUID.8000000AH:EDX.tsc-scale [bit 4] 2022-02-03T16:01:06.252788Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: This feature depends on other features that were not requested: CPUID.8000000AH:EDX.svme-addr-chk [bit 28] 2022-02-03T16:01:06.253105Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: This feature depends on other features that were not requested: CPUID.8000000AH:EDX.tsc-scale [bit 4] 2022-02-03T16:01:06.253114Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: This feature depends on other features that were not requested: CPUID.8000000AH:EDX.svme-addr-chk [bit 28] 2022-02-03T16:01:06.253415Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: This feature depends on other features that were not requested: CPUID.8000000AH:EDX.tsc-scale [bit 4] 2022-02-03T16:01:06.253424Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: This feature depends on other features that were not requested: CPUID.8000000AH:EDX.svme-addr-chk [bit 28] 2022-02-03T16:01:06.253723Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: This feature depends on other features that were not requested: CPUID.8000000AH:EDX.tsc-scale [bit 4] 2022-02-03T16:01:06.253732Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: This feature depends on other features that were not requested: CPUID.8000000AH:EDX.svme-addr-chk [bit 28] 2022-02-03T16:01:06.254041Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: This feature depends on other features that were not requested: CPUID.8000000AH:EDX.tsc-scale [bit 4] 2022-02-03T16:01:06.254050Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: This feature depends on other features that were not requested: CPUID.8000000AH:EDX.svme-addr-chk [bit 28] 2022-02-03T16:01:06.254340Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: This feature depends on other features that were not requested: CPUID.8000000AH:EDX.tsc-scale [bit 4] 2022-02-03T16:01:06.254349Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: This feature depends on other features that were not requested: CPUID.8000000AH:EDX.svme-addr-chk [bit 28] 2022-02-03T16:01:06.254657Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: This feature depends on other features that were not requested: CPUID.8000000AH:EDX.tsc-scale [bit 4] 2022-02-03T16:01:06.254667Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: This feature depends on other features that were not requested: CPUID.8000000AH:EDX.svme-addr-chk [bit 28] 2022-02-03T16:08:39.881262Z qemu-system-x86_64: terminating on signal 15 from pid 6800 (/usr/bin/libvirtd) 2022-02-03 16:08:43.649+0000: shutting down, reason=shutdown It says that is just chose to shutdown but doesn't really provide a reason why. To note after it shuts down in previous logs, it almost immediately starts up again. Any help is appreciated, Thank you.

I just got a single GPU passthrough thing working on my Manjaro system (7700K, 1080ti, Z270I Gaming Pro Carbon AC), but I’m not getting any sound. I have already enabled linger, and I set nographics_allow_host_audio to 1 in /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf. When I run a normal VM without passthrough, qemu is running is my own user, as is virt-manager, as is pulseaudio. I’ve also tried adding the following to my xml, but it doesn’t solve anything: <qemu:commandline> <qemu:arg value='-device'/> <qemu:arg value='ich9-intel-hda,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x1b'/> <qemu:arg value='-device'/> <qemu:arg value='hda-micro,audiodev=hda'/> <qemu:arg value='-audiodev'/> <qemu:arg value='pa,id=hda,server=unix:/run/user/1000/pulse/native'/> </qemu:commandline> So, anyone got an idea on how to get sound working? Preferably both microphone and audio out.

Over the pass week, I have been trying to do a VFIO single GPU passthrough from my Popos to a windows VM. To do this I used this guide:https://gitlab.com/risingprismtv/single-gpu-passthrough/-/wikis/home and the scripts that come with it. I followed all the instructions exactly but when I run the VM, all I get is a black screen with nothing on it. I am using Virt-manager as outlined in the guide. I have a Tuf x-570 motherboard, a R5 3600, and GTX 1060 Turbo from Asus. really would like to get this working. Any help would be appreciated as I am new to Linux and VMs in general.

So I murdered my beloved Asus x99-deluxe by apparently creating a short-circuit and – not specifically due to SARS-CoV-2019 btw. – am pretty much broke. This rearranged Dual CPU motherboard sounds like a fun alternative for me – I mean no WiFi/Bluetooth which sucks and no 2 LAN ports and shitty sound – since it would feel better than having to buy a weaker board than what I had in the beginning, without the coolness factor of an at least "kind-of-upgrade"... Now I have to figure out three things, that I can't find anywhere about this motherboard X99 Dual CPU Motherboard Set LGA 2011-3 CPU DDR4 Motherboard : https://www.ebay.de/itm/324616877087?hash=item4b94ac741f:m:mb3xpPOc73zOHHha2iCFDbg Can it use consumer x99 CPUs (i.e. 2x i7 5820k)? It says x99 but I am sure it's actually a server chipset... Do my 8x HyperX Fury DDR4 sticks work with it? Can I somehow add WiFi/Bluetooth affordably to one of the m.2 slots? Does it really have USB 3.0 pins and USB 2.0 pins as it's stated in it's description? Does it have clean IOMMU groups for VFIO? It is one of the things I needed in my rig because I have a NVDIA gpu I passed through to a Windows VM and I accessed it with looking-glass, which is something I would like to be able to still do... I hope someone can help me with some of those. Cheers from someone who ALWAYS manages to break his own hardware goldsteal

Long time watcher, first time poster so please be gentle haha Currently trying to setup a QEMU based Hackintosh based around Foxlet's github (link) and I managed to get it working through my GUI, but i'm trying to passthrough the GPU and it spent the past 3hrs spitting out errors and refusing to boot. I managed to sucessfully execute the shell script and recieve an output on the display BUT: *big ol display error* I've checked through and confirmed all the PCIE devices in that IOMMU group are pushed into VFIO_PCI, so I don't think it's a config error I think there's probably something wrong with the parameters in my booting script (unhide spoiler for code) I'mma be real with y'all, I am waaaay in over my head. Like I understand this sorta stuff, but I am not Anthony. Anyone got any idea of where I'm going wrong, and what could fix it? I'm at a dead end...

Any recommendation for USB PCIe cards with at least 2 dedicated controllers so that I won't have to use the whole card when I want to assign a USB controller to a VM? Preferably with USB-C. Also, on a budget. Found couple that might work, but want your thoughts: Maiwo KC19. Startech USB 3.1 (2x USB-A + 1x USB-C) (PEXUSB312A1C1H)

SOLVED I used `ddrescue` to copy the files over. It worked!! -------------- I was able to copy my Arch & Windows QCOW2 images from my old 2TB SSD to new 4TB SSD. However, I'm having trouble copying my Lubuntu and Neon QCOW2 images. I'm always getting an "input/output error". Even cloning doesn't work. The fact that I was able to copy my Arch and Windows QCOW2 files leads me to think it's the images that were having problems, I did consider it was a disk issue, but I ran `fsck`, and they were fine.. I also tried to copy the images to somewhere else in the the same 2TB SSD, but that didn't work. Any idea what's up? The images are still usable when I boot it up.

Asking for recommendation for EDID capable of 4K@144Hz and/or 1440p@165Hz. Found this one on Amazon, but it's not even capable of outputting beyond 60Hz.

Back story: Planning to build a workstation. Virtualization support in general is the primary aim for me, and a specific feature that is a requirement for me is passing through a USB controller to a guest machine. The intention is that I'd be able to keep a usb device connected to the guest machine, even if the device power cycles. Question: - The main thing I'm not sure about is does the motherboard need to support PCIe passthrough (IOMMU on the AMD side, if I am not mistaken), or only the cpu? - I believe only one of pcie slots is connected directly to the cpu, and the others to an external pcie controller. If so, would the other slots require pcie passthrough support from the motherboard? or would all the slots behave the same? - Is there benefit in going x570, in the context of virtualization?

I get the difference between of VirtIO/QXL vs GPU passthrough. The latter is used with a Windows 11 VM with my GTX 1060, and the former with Linux distros I'm playing with, but I don't understand how VirGL compares with GPU passthrough or VirtIO/QXL. From what I understoond VirGL is the middle-ground between GPU passthrough and VirtIO/QXL? My system uses the RX 6900XT Phantom Gaming D as its primary GPU. Since macOS & NVIDIA don't support each other, will VirGL allow me to use macOS in a VM with a decent performance?

This new PC of mine has been a bit of a roller coaster, but I have finally finished my new gaming PC near the end of January: I have Kubuntu currently running on it, as I love Plasma, and comfortable in Ubuntu. Main purpose of this build is for gaming, both on Kubuntu on the host side (using the 6900XT) and the Windows guest VM (using the GTX 1060 passed through to it). I'm also testing KDE Neon with Plasma Wayland in the VM using the NVIDIA GPU passthrough. On the host, I'm playing mostly single player games, like Mass Effect Legendary Edition, CyberPunk 2077, Life Is Strange, etc. Apex now works on the Steam Deck (and Linux by extension), so I'm trying to get used to Battle Royale and the gameplay as a whole (still suck at it) On the Windows VM, I'm playing Halo Infinite & Halo MCC. I was playing the campaign on the host side, but my achievements don't register. I already finished the MCC campaigns on my old PC (which ran on KDE Neon), but I didn't get any of them. I. Defective GPU After a week of using this, my display started to flicker, usually whenever I play a game, but sometimes, it was just out of the blue (i.e. browsing). I had some theories before I finally just swap my 6900XT: My 1000W PSU not being enough That didn't seem to be the case because taking out the GTX 1060 didn't help Misconfigured KWin Bad PSU power cord Surge protector issue Safe to say, I was extremely pissed. Good thing Newegg swapped it. II. "New" desk & new setup My setup is comprised of my gaming PC, ThinkPad X1 Yoga (personal laptop) & ThinkPad T580 (work laptop). Until this month, I was using a desk that I had since grade school + a desk I acquired near the end of high school (setup was the same with my first gaming PC). It was uncomfortable, but I got it to work. I had to push my 27" and 32" monitors all the way to the front so that it goes in front of the desk's shelf, and lost a lot of space in the process. It was annoying, but I bore it for 6 years when I first built my gaming PC (when they were still 24" + 27" monitors). I helped my cousin build her standing desk and setup her work-from-home + personal setup, and she gave me her old desk (160cx80cm facing the window). Took couple of days of bedroom tetris with my old "secondary" desk where my laptop/Windows VM will be stationd, and I finally got it to work...almost. I had the mount placed on the side of the desk, with the primary 27" 1440p stretched out. Problem was that I overestimated its length and my arm end up resting on my old desk whenever I'm using my desktop. Doesn't help, that I end up kicking my PC, and have to angle myself I planned on buying a pegboard/shelf to place all of my figures currently on my desk, and that's when I was gonna move my desktop on my desk Couple of weeks later, I hit upon an idea, and got to move my entire PC to the top of my desk, and not need to get a shelf/pegboard yet. Took advantage of the time to readjust the mount and by placing it on the corner of the desk at its long side, as opposed to the short side. III. Next Step Planning on cleaning up my setup, but I'm in no rush now. Replace that GTX 1060 with a 3060 Ti in the 2nd half ( price goes down) Run SteamOS in VM (why not?) Add more SSDs (maybe 8TB SATA) Pegboard/shelf Full specs CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 3.7 GHz 12-Core Processor CPU Cooler: Deepcool ASSASSIN III 90.37 CFM CPU Cooler Motherboard: Gigabyte X570S AORUS MASTER ATX AM4 Motherboard Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory Storage: Samsung 980 Pro 2TB NVME Samsung 860 QVO 1TB 2.5" SSD Samsung 870 Evo 2TB 2.5" SSD Samsung 870 Evo 4TB 2.5" SSD Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM HDD Western Digital WD Black 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM HDD Video Card: Host/primary: ASRock Radeon RX 6900 XT 16 GB Phantom Gaming D OC Video Card VM/secondary: EVGA RTX 3060 Ti XC Case: Lian Li O11D XL-X ATX Full Tower Case Case Fans: Thermaltake Pure Plus RGB TT Premium Edition 70.32 CFM 140 mm Fans 3-Pack LIAN LI Bora Digital Series RGB BR 120mm 3 Fans Pack - Silver Frame Lian Li Bora Digital Series RGB BR 120mm 3 Fans Pack - Black Frame Monitors: Asus TUF Gaming VG27AQ1A 27.0" 2560x1440 170 Hz Monitor BenQ EW3270U 31.5" 3840x2160 60 Hz Monitor Acer GF276 ABMIPX27" FHD 1ms FreeSync Gaming Monitor PSU: Antec Signature Series ST1000, 80 PLUS Titanium Certified, 1000W Full Modular OS; Kubuntu

I was trying to install Windows Subsystem On Linux on my Windows 11 VM (cause why not?), but it keeps on BSOD-ing causing primarily Clock Watchdog Timeout & Hypervisor Error. <domain type="kvm"> <name>Windows</name> <uuid>6440ba51-6199-451e-b6ed-bd5b4e6dc039</uuid> <metadata> <libosinfo:libosinfo xmlns:libosinfo="http://libosinfo.org/xmlns/libvirt/domain/1.0"> <libosinfo:os id="http://microsoft.com/win/10"/> </libosinfo:libosinfo> </metadata> <memory unit="KiB">25165824</memory> <currentMemory unit="KiB">25165824</currentMemory> <vcpu placement="static">12</vcpu> <os> <type arch="x86_64" machine="pc-q35-6.0">hvm</type> <loader readonly="yes" type="pflash">/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE_4M.ms.fd</loader> <nvram>/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/nvram/Windows_VARS.fd</nvram> </os> <features> <acpi/> <apic/> <hyperv> <relaxed state="on"/> <vapic state="on"/> <spinlocks state="on" retries="8191"/> <vendor_id state="on" value="AuthenticAMD"/> </hyperv> <vmport state="off"/> </features> <cpu mode="host-passthrough" check="none" migratable="on"> <topology sockets="1" dies="1" cores="6" threads="2"/> <feature policy="disable" name="hypervisor"/> </cpu> <clock offset="localtime"> <timer name="rtc" tickpolicy="catchup"/> <timer name="pit" tickpolicy="delay"/> <timer name="hpet" present="no"/> <timer name="hypervclock" present="yes"/> </clock> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>destroy</on_crash> <pm> <suspend-to-mem enabled="no"/> <suspend-to-disk enabled="no"/> </pm> <devices> <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator> <disk type="file" device="disk"> <driver name="qemu" type="qcow2" discard="unmap"/> <source file="/home/DATA/870E2TB/yamiyuki/VMs/Windows.qcow2"/> <target dev="sda" bus="sata"/> <boot order="2"/> <address type="drive" controller="0" bus="0" target="0" unit="0"/> </disk> <disk type="file" device="cdrom"> <driver name="qemu" type="raw"/> <target dev="sdb" bus="sata"/> <readonly/> <boot order="1"/> <address type="drive" controller="0" bus="0" target="0" unit="1"/> </disk> <disk type="block" device="disk"> <driver name="qemu" type="raw" cache="none" io="native" discard="unmap"/> <source dev="/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Samsung_SSD_860_QVO_1TB_S4PGNF0M434676E"/> <target dev="sdc" bus="sata"/> <address type="drive" controller="0" bus="0" target="0" unit="2"/> </disk> <disk type="block" device="disk"> <driver name="qemu" type="raw" cache="none" io="native"/> <source dev="/dev/disk/by-uuid/222AA05D2AA02FA9"/> <target dev="sdd" bus="usb"/> <address type="usb" bus="0" port="7"/> </disk> <controller type="sata" index="0"> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x1f" function="0x2"/> </controller> <controller type="pci" index="0" model="pcie-root"/> <controller type="pci" index="1" model="pcie-root-port"> <model name="pcie-root-port"/> <target chassis="1" port="0x10"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x02" function="0x0" multifunction="on"/> </controller> <controller type="pci" index="2" model="pcie-root-port"> <model name="pcie-root-port"/> <target chassis="2" port="0x11"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x02" function="0x1"/> </controller> <controller type="pci" index="3" model="pcie-root-port"> <model name="pcie-root-port"/> <target chassis="3" port="0x12"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x02" function="0x2"/> </controller> <controller type="pci" index="4" model="pcie-root-port"> <model name="pcie-root-port"/> <target chassis="4" port="0x13"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x02" function="0x3"/> </controller> <controller type="pci" index="5" model="pcie-root-port"> <model name="pcie-root-port"/> <target chassis="5" port="0x14"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x02" function="0x4"/> </controller> <controller type="pci" index="6" model="pcie-root-port"> <model name="pcie-root-port"/> <target chassis="6" port="0x15"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x02" function="0x5"/> </controller> <controller type="pci" index="7" model="pcie-to-pci-bridge"> <model name="pcie-pci-bridge"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x01" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/> </controller> <controller type="pci" index="8" model="pcie-root-port"> <model name="pcie-root-port"/> <target chassis="8" port="0x16"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x02" function="0x6"/> </controller> <controller type="pci" index="9" model="pcie-root-port"> <model name="pcie-root-port"/> <target chassis="9" port="0x8"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x01" function="0x0"/> </controller> <controller type="virtio-serial" index="0"> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x03" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/> </controller> <controller type="usb" index="0" modelBSOD - Hypervisor Error & Clock Watchdog Timeout when I try to install WSL in Optional Features="qemu-xhci" ports="15"> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x02" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/> </controller> <interface type="network"> <mac address="52:54:00:4a:a7:c5"/> <source network="default"/> <model type="e1000e"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x09" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/> </interface> <serial type="pty"> <target type="isa-serial" port="0"> <model name="isa-serial"/> </target> </serial> <console type="pty"> <target type="serial" port="0"/> </console> <channel type="spicevmc"> <target type="virtio" name="com.redhat.spice.0"/> <address type="virtio-serial" controller="0" bus="0" port="2"/> </channel> <channel type="spiceport"> <source channel="org.spice-space.webdav.0"/> <target type="virtio" name="org.spice-space.webdav.0"/> <address type="virtio-serial" controller="0" bus="0" port="1"/> </channel> <input type="mouse" bus="ps2"/> <input type="keyboard" bus="virtio"> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x08" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/> </input> <input type="mouse" bus="usb"> <address type="usb" bus="0" port="1"/> </input> <input type="keyboard" bus="ps2"/> <tpm model="tpm-tis"> <backend type="emulator" version="2.0"/> </tpm> <graphics type="spice" autoport="yes"> <listen type="address"/> <image compression="off"/> </graphics> <sound model="ich9"> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x1b" function="0x0"/> </sound> <audio id="1" type="spice"/> <video> <model type="none"/> </video> <hostdev mode="subsystem" type="usb" managed="no"> <source startupPolicy="optional"> <vendor id="0x046d"/> <product id="0xc541"/> </source> <address type="usb" bus="0" port="4"/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode="subsystem" type="usb" managed="no"> <source startupPolicy="optional"> <vendor id="0x28da"/> <product id="0x3101"/> </source> <address type="usb" bus="0" port="5"/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode="subsystem" type="usb" managed="yes"> <source startupPolicy="optional"> <vendor id="0x2109"/> <product id="0x0817"/> <address bus="4" device="2"/> </source> <address type="usb" bus="0" port="6"/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode="subsystem" type="pci" managed="yes"> <source> <address domain="0x0000" bus="0x03" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/> </source> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x06" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode="subsystem" type="pci" managed="yes"> <source> <address domain="0x0000" bus="0x0e" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/> </source> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x04" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode="subsystem" type="pci" managed="yes"> <source> <address domain="0x0000" bus="0x0e" slot="0x00" function="0x1"/> </source> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x05" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/> </hostdev> <redirdev bus="usb" type="spicevmc"> <address type="usb" bus="0" port="2"/> </redirdev> <redirdev bus="usb" type="spicevmc"> <address type="usb" bus="0" port="3"/> </redirdev> <memballoon model="none"/> <shmem name="looking-glass"> <model type="ivshmem-plain"/> <size unit="M">32</size> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x07" slot="0x02" function="0x0"/> </shmem> </devices> </domain>

Hello everyone, I have this strange error which shouldn't occur. Error starting domain: internal error: Process exited prior to exec: libvirt: QEMU Driver error : Unable to stat /dev/dri/by-path/pci-0000:00:02.0-render: No such file or directory It seems like you can't stat this path, but when I run stat /dev/dri/by-path/pci-0000:00:02.0-render It shows the info, like stat should.

Budget (including currency): $3000 Country: US Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Want Base as Linux - version TBD - this will host two passthrough Windows VM's for Windows 10 gaming. All other VM's off this box will be either Linux or Windows Server 2019 Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Use existing drives/case/etc. Parts RTX2070 (2) for Windows 10 virtualization https://www.newegg.com/asrock-rack-romed8-2t/p/N82E16813140044 Epyc Server Board - see elow - think option 2 is bette EDIT - Decided on the same Gigabyte MZ32-AR0 that Linus used - has IOMMU in BIOS whereas ASRock does not. Has MORE memory slots. Has most of the features I need (not as good as ASRock) https://www.newegg.com/amd-epyc-7402p-socket-sp3/p/N82E16819113592?Description=epyc rome cpu 24 core&cm_re=epyc_rome_cpu_24_core-_-19-113-592-_-Product 24 Core Epyc CPU So this motherboard is more expensive than the Gigabyte motherboard Linux used. This one has all 7 pice x 16 gen 4 slots, 2 oculus, 1 thunderbolt, etc. Adding Adaptec 71605 - not sure if I will do passthrough to Windows Server 2019 as all drives attached are on current Windows Server 2019 implementation Using 45 drive case to replace 36 bay that had motherboard, aIso will need to buy a new case for the ASRock motherboard Questions: 1) I cannot really afford all 8 sockets of RAM to be populated - can I start with say 2 or 4 memory sockets populated? 2) Did Linus ever get around the SMT issue? If not, they could be a deal breaker for me. I think the Threadripper TR3 has a workaround for VFIO and SMT, but there are no 7 pice 4 7 slot motherboards. I would be fine with 7 slots provided maybe 3 were pcie 4 and the rest were pcie3 so I can put in expansion card 3) Thoughts for a case? 4) Should I watercool? Will that lower the overall temperature in the room? Or which is the ideal air cooler? 5) Any good tutorials on VFIO? 6) For the motherboard provided above, how would i find out the IOMMU groupings and if this will do what I want 7) Any ideas for a case? I do NOT need any drives in their except the ones populated on the motherboard as I will hook up to external 45 bay All help is is sincerely appreciated. While I have been running Linux, I want to cut down on physical Windows machines (ideally want to get off Windows eventually completely). New to VFIO and GPU passthrough. Timothy Atwood

Probably shouldn't have listed this under graphics cards topic.... I posted this in r/VFIO without much luck, hopefully someone here can help: I'm very new to KVM stuff but I already did a fair lot of research and I need some help. While researching I found this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/comments/amvcm2/gpu_passthrough_with_an_exmining_card/ 7 And found in the replies: „It looks to me like the inf hacking done by LTT was simply to map PCI device IDs to different driver sections (ie. fooling the driver to handle a P106-100 the same as it would a GTX1060), but with a VM we can simply change the device ID (ex. x-pci-device-id=0x1c03). You'd also need to find a compatible ROM for the VM or hack your own to change the device ID and checksum, but you'd only need to do this once versus hacking every new NVIDIA driver. Of course you still have a card with no video output and I don't know if the drivers will let you create a headless desktop to use with Looking Glass or if you need a companion graphics that supports rendering into the frame buffer.“ That is EXACTLY what I wanted to do. Except I have a P104 mining card (GTX 1070 GDDR5X version equivalent) which HAS VIDEO OUTPUTS. The card is very specific, because it's severely limited by it's VBIOS. The card in fact has PCIe 3.0 x16 support and 8GB of VRAM but it has been limited by VBIOS to 1.1 x4 and 4GB of VRAM. Also the video outputs don't work (their hardware does, but they simply don't output anything because the whole display engine is disabled in VBIOS). I tried hardware flashing it but then I couldn't get windows and drivers to cooperate because they still thought it's a P104 because the device ID is not tied to the BIOS but rather to the hardware. I've done my best to hardware hack this gpu into a 1070 but then I discovered that since Maxwell the GPU Device ID is tied to the GPU die and cannot be physically modified in any way. So my last resort was obviously hacking outdated drivers in Windows but I found that incredibly impractical and unstable. Then I found that you can just pass it through to a VM and set the main OS to report a different ID to it, thus making the VM think it's a different GPU. And so started my long research... I found a very nicely explained guide for begginers: https://mathiashueber.com/windows-virtual-machine-gpu-passthrough-ubuntu/ that I am willing to use (please tell me if it's wrong before I invest countless hours troubleshooting something that's outdated or straight-up wrong). I found that an option called x-pci-device-id exists that can do exactly what I want (even u/aw___ said that in his reply and if I understood correctly he is one of the devs) but I didn't find any clear explanation where to put it in the XML config (if at all, I also didn't find which file to edit in the first place) and with what syntax. Here it is stated in the replies that option is just an experimental feature and that you need to do something different to make it work: https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/comments/d6cmes/possible_to_spoof_pciid_of_device_passed_through/ So of course all that left me confused and I need help: Which linux distro do you recommend for this? Please give a quick read to the guide and tell me if something significant (or notable) has changed since then (or is wrong) or link to a known good (and hopefully simple) guide? Any help is appreciated! Does x-pci-device-id still exist in QEMU and how does it work (also is it placed in the XML config file and if so where in the config is it put)? What's the difference between the regula pci-device-id/vendor-id and pci-SUB-device-id/vendor-id? Again, I am a noob, please be exact with your answers, as if you are explaining to a child (maybe not that much, but you get the point). Forgive me if I took too much of your time

Hello, I am trying to install Proxmox on my system so that I can passthrough my hardware for a Windows VM (For gaming) while also utilising other virtual machines for other tasks like pfSense and Active Directory. I followed this tutorial: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Pci_passthrough#GPU_Passthrough to setup my GPU in passthrough mode, and the monitor does get an output! As you can see in the image, when trying to boot from the virtual DVD drive (Windows ISO) it will "time out". Then it will try to network boot, but essentially the machine is unable to boot into the ISO properly... at least on the PCI GPU Display. After some tweaking and further looking, I noticed that I can view the virtual machine by not selecting "Primary GPU" and using the KVM console. This shows that the machine will boot to the ISO perfect, just not on my GPU! It's almost like having a second machine! This issue semi-persists with Linux ISO's. For example with Ubuntu, it will boot to the GRUB boot loader, but freezes there. Please take note of the 2 cursors on the screen, in the middle on the left and right. Here is the VM config: bios: ovmf bootdisk: scsi0 cores: 4 cpu: host efidisk0: local-lvm:vm-100-disk-1,size=4M hostpci0: 26:00,pcie=1 ide2: local:iso/Windows10.iso,media=cdrom,size=5294394K machine: q35 memory: 8192 name: WinGaming net0: virtio=C6:02:34:54:C2:9F,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1 numa: 0 ostype: win10 scsi0: local-lvm:vm-100-disk-0,cache=writeback,size=50G scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci smbios1: uuid=bd9a4bed-89aa-4a30-b02f-575f9fd0052d sockets: 1 usb0: host=1-2,usb3=1 vga: none vmgenid: 757d6bd1-5c67-4e6f-a294-0cec5c2ac9e1 Here is some information about my host: AMD Ryzen 9 3900 (OEM Part) 16GB ADATA DDR4 3000Mhz MSI B450M TOMAHAWK MAX Gigabyte Gaming RX570 4G Samsung 860 EVO 500GB My lspci -nn output: root@pve:~# lspci -nn | grep "VGA" 26:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480] [1002:67df] (rev ef) root@pve:~# lspci -nn | grep "Audio" 26:00.1 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590] [1002:aaf0] My VFIO config (/etc/modprobe.d/vfio.conf): root@pve:~# cat /etc/modprobe.d/vfio.conf options vfio-pci ids=1002:67df,1002:aaf0 disable_vga=1 Proxmox Info: GRUB Flags: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet amd_iommu=on pcie_acs_override=downstream,multifunction" lspci -vnn (Just GPU): 26:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480] [1002:67df] (rev ef) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590] [1458:2304] Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 75 Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=2M] I/O ports at e000 [size=256] Memory at fcf00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [48] Vendor Specific Information: Len=08 <?> Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [58] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010 <?> Capabilities: [150] Advanced Error Reporting Capabilities: [200] #15 Capabilities: [270] #19 Capabilities: [2b0] Address Translation Service (ATS) Capabilities: [2c0] Page Request Interface (PRI) Capabilities: [2d0] Process Address Space ID (PASID) Capabilities: [320] Latency Tolerance Reporting Capabilities: [328] Alternative Routing-ID Interpretation (ARI) Capabilities: [370] L1 PM Substates Kernel driver in use: vfio-pci Kernel modules: amdgpu 26:00.1 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590] [1002:aaf0] Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590] [1458:aaf0] Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 76 Memory at fcf60000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [48] Vendor Specific Information: Len=08 <?> Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [58] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010 <?> Capabilities: [150] Advanced Error Reporting Capabilities: [328] Alternative Routing-ID Interpretation (ARI) Kernel driver in use: vfio-pci Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel I'd appreciate any troubleshooting information or tips you could give me. I'm not too knowledgeable in regards to IOMMU and GPU passthrough, so if I am missing out on something crucial I apologise. Thanks.

Index Introduction 1. Requirements 2. Recovery 3. Enabling & Verifying both Virtualization & IOMMU Groups. 4. Installing Applications & Downloading Drivers 5. Blocking the Kernel Driver(s) 6. Configuring Virt-manager 7. Installing VirtIO Drivers 8. Looking Glass Configuration 9. Scream Audio 10. Performance Optimization 11. Troubleshooting

Welcome to what is intended to be a discussion thread for anything and everything virtualization. Regardless of your choice of hypervisor. VMWare ESXi, PROXMOX, Hyper-V, VMWare for Workstations, QEMU/KVM w/ virt-manager, QEMU/KVM w/ Cockpit, VMWare vSphere, UnRAID, Oracle VM Virtualbox, Docker, Citrix, any others that I missed. Regardless of your choice of hardware: Intel i3 | i5 | i7 | i9 | E3 | E5 | E7 | Bronze | Silver | Gold | Platinum AMD Operon | EPYC | Ryzen 3/5/7/9 | Ryzen Threadripper Regardless of the application: Education, Web hosting, File Sharing, Pen-testing, Gaming, Game hosting, VPN services, Home-entertainment, etc. Feel welcome to ask for help or discuss current projects. I have a couple of tutorials up for anyone who wants to try something new or if you've never played with virtualization before. I'll be here to answer questions or share my experiences.

Hi together, recently BattlEye started banning people gaming via KVM on Linux, because they think that a lot of users using KVM are cheating. I created this post in hopes to raise the voice for this problem as Linus did some videos concerning KVM gaming and recently mentioned a remote "KVM service" as a sponsor. Personally, I am using Manjaro Linux with a Ryzen Threadripper 2920X and now upgraded to a RTX2070 as a GPU passthrough (GTX 1060 before). For connection to my "gaming server" I use Moonlight. Here a link with a Reddit discussion, you will find plenty of them, if you search for it: I tried to contact Ubisoft (as for example Rainbow Six Siege uses BattlEye), they really do not care and refer to BattlEye. Contacting them leads to nothing, I am not "famous" enough to get any answer from them. There are also new threads regarding VM spoofing, unfortunately I find them quite inconvenient (and they also do not seem to work) and for me removing the cpu hypervisor to partially mask the virtual machine destroys the performance in terms of fps. A full VM masking seems also to be not so easy. (I do not think somebody managed it to do this) Maybe somebody has an idea or even knows how to mask or found a way to bypass this BattlEye thing. For everybody thinking a cheater is asking for a way to use his hypervisor cheats: I really do not care about ranking, I play from time to time for fun with friends. Thank you!

I am planning out a rig that will mostly be using for working from home (programming) and gaming. Since I exclusively work with Linux servers, I was planning on using Arch or Debian-testing as the base OS, using VMs/Docker to generate the Linux incantation I need for work (RHEL6/7 *ugh*), and using PCI-E passthrough for gaming through a Windows VM. I already have a i7-6700K (can still be returned) and 5 TB hard drive. Everything else is up for discussion. The Define Nano S is very appealing to me. The big issue is finding a mITX board. I would like to have a USB Type C port (future proofing and my phone is Type C), and a reliable network connectivity (read lots of SSH connections and file transfers). My options and opinions are as follows: 1. GIGABYTE G1 GA-Z170N-Gaming 5: + Type C port + Reasonable price. - DVI port (I can live with it, though) - Inconsistency in the drivers and performance of the Killer NIC. 2. ASUS Z170I PRO + Good set of features + Lots of expansion options + No DVI port - No USB Type C - ASUS warranty is awful. 3. ASRock Fatal1ty Gaming Z170 + Middle of the road between Gigabyte and ASUS - Consumer reviews are meh - Quality seems hit and miss 4. ASUS ROG MAXIMUS VIII IMPACT + 90% of the features - Cost - M.2 (Just WTF for a 240 USD board) I could just go with a mATX or ATX build. I am going to go that route I would go ATX and most likely get a Define R 5. I got an ATX mainboard I am leaning towards (GIGABYTE G1 GA-Z170X-Gaming 7) as well. Thanks for any input!