GPU Passthrough on Hyper-V from Windows to Linux?

[Tomsta]

I don't have a seperate boot drive to put Linux on and i'm wanting to see if i can get a working Linux setup going on my machine so i can expierancing gaming on Linux outside of a Steam Deck

 

As such i had an idea to setup a VM with Linux on it but i realised i would need to do GPU passthrough from my host machine (Windows 11) to my Linux VM

 

Is this something that is easy for a Linux noobie to do?

[Eigenvektor]

I'd rather dual boot, you can do it with a single drive, even though it's not necessarily ideal (haven't had issues with it personally). But much better than gaming in a VM, even with passthrough.

 

~edit: I tried gaming in a VM before (reverse setup though) and it wasn't much fun. It could interfere with mouse and keyboard input, where the VM would or wouldn't capture the keyboard when it was supposed to, or the mouse pointer wouldn't stay locked to the game's camera. It'll probably also clash with some modern anti-cheat stuff for multiplayer.

[StDragon]

Cheaper and easier to go with dual boot. You won't be able to passthrough that GPU unless vGPU is supported by the card. Spolier alert - consumer/gaming cards arn't supported.

And then there's a whole process to get that working for Hyper-V. https://www.nakivo.com/blog/hyper-v-gpu-passthrough/