308: The One About GPU Passthrough

Jul 2, 2019 · 56m

Our crew walks you through their PCI Passthrough setups that let them run Windows, macOS, and distro-hop all from one Linux machine. Forget multiple partitions, dual booting, and Hackintoshes; you can do it all with Linux and KVM. Near-native VM performance doesn't have to be painful. You only need a few prerequisites and a little help. Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Windows VirtIO Drivers — 64-bit versions of Windows Vista and newer require the drivers to be digitally signed. Alex's arch-vfio-ovmf scripts — Arch Linux installation and VFIO setup scripts Looking Glass - Quickstart Guide — These guides are designed to help you get Looking Glass up and running on an already configured QEMU KVM Virtual Machine that has a VGA PCI Passthrough device. duncanthrax/scream — Scream is a virtual device driver for Windows that provides a discrete sound device. Audio played through this device is published on your local network as a PCM multicast stream. ACS patch COPR — Fedora kernels with add-acs-overrides patch from Arch AUR ACS Override Kernel Builds — This page contains links to the latest kernel builds with the ACS over…

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