Linux GPU pass through.

[Terryv]

Has anyone here gotten it to work?

How did you manage it?

How well is it working?

 

I'm seriously sick of windows, the only reason I still use it is because of games. Everything else I try to do in my Ubuntu dual boot.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Yes, it works easily. Look at linus videos on unraid

 

Virt-manager works well if you want a gui, virsh if you want a cmd line, ovirt if you want a cluster

 

Works fine, but it is a vm, so you can't easily just plug a usb in(but you can passthrough one)

 

What hardware are you running?

[Terryv]

I was more looking to run windows via VirtualBox

 

I have a 4790k in a Asus Z97a and 16gb ram

 

I would be running Linux on the iGPU and passing my fury X through to my windows VM

[David89]

Not well enough. Use Wine or CrossOver Linux - works wonders. It even has DX10 support, DX11 is in the making.

 

Edit: Sorry, we posted at the same time. Passing through the Fury X works with QEMU afaik pretty good.

[Terryv]

I've played around with wine in the past. It's ok for some thing and terrible for others.

 

I'd like a more native solution

[Electronics Wizardy]

6 minutes ago, Terryv said:

I was more looking to run windows via VirtualBox

 

I have a 4790k in a Asus Z97a and 16gb ram

 

I would be running Linux on the iGPU and passing my fury X through to my windows VM

don't use virtual box on linux, kvm is faster, more builtin to the os, and supports more advanced features.

 

 

[Terryv]

I didn't know about KVM, Ill probably use that if its less overhead.

[flowalex]

The computer in the video below uses a skylake cpu, but it may be helpful, it is done by Wendell from Level 1 Techs

Spoiler

 

Also the write up for this video:

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/gta-v-on-linux-skylake-build-hardware-vm-passthrough/87440/2 

 

[VicBar]

I've tried a few things myself but never gotten it to work.. Lvl1techs has wendell's walkthrough from when he was in TekSyndicate and in the lvl1techs forum the is a user who has made another one and gives support...

 

I tried it on openSUSE and even installed Manjaro, because wendell was doing it on arch and I thought there were too many differences with the installs. Nothing has worked for me yet. (I even have a skylake cpu which is what Wendell praises for this)

.. 

[Terryv]

I'm prepping to take a go at it this weekend.

 

I'm currently setting up a tower for testing. If that proves successful then I'll set up my main PC.

[flowalex]

Also here is a more generic guide on the level1 forums, your motherboard needs to support iommu for pass through to work properly

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/play-games-in-windows-on-linux-pci-passthrough-quick-guide/108981