Ryzen GPU Passthrough Guide - Linux Gaming VFIO - TechteamGB

I built this system for my review of the Gigabyte M27Q, a monitor with a KVM built in making it perfect for the enthusiast linux gamer. You can check out that video in the cards above, but this one is a getting started guide on how to get this set up. This is advice both from a beginner, and as a first step to get it running, but I can’t hold a candle to Wendell and his wealth of knowledge so if you haven’t already, go subscribe to his channel @Level1Techs, and his @Level1Linux channel too.

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Ryzen GPU Passthrough Guide - Linux Gaming VFIO - TechteamGB

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[erikreider]

Love the Linux content! Didn't know that you covered Linux 😁

[erikreider]

Hopefully us Linux gamers won't even need to setup a vm to play games with anticheat when the new 5.11 kernel rolls out 😊. Welcome to the Linux community!

[veganovus]

Love this, thank you - it's left me with some great ideas about using VHDX hard drives as removable storage for games

[ElliottStreet]

Great explainer, I have a passthrough setup myself in my unraid server. Code 43s gave me so many headaches, and there are so many different suggestions for fixes online.

It's not strictly necessary to have 2 graphics cards, you can get away with 1 provided you don't want to use the host OS from the machine itself (or maybe if you have an iGPU that would work for the host?). In my setup, Unraid boots with the GPU, and then when the Windows VM is launched it gets handed over. I use it like this as a remote workstation/folding machine.

[DeDyson]

Currently I am just dual booting, Linux for most things (the Proton compatability layer is doing gods work), Windows for those stubborn games or games with anti-cheat that don't like Linux. It's a basic solution, but good enough for me. Thanks for covering this though and it is interesting.

[mathiashuber]

Great content, very good presentation, and thank you for the credit.
Keep it up!

[Shirosak]

Nvidia cards since April are generally better for GPU Passthrough, AMD still has that nasty reset bug

[AlexTHGR]

Seems a bit of a faf compared to using a dedicated hypervisor like Proxmox, then just remoting into it, but certainly is a novel solution if you only want one machine, and don't want to go with Hyper-V.

[mahdig]

Why not using a lightweight linux and give most of CPU/memory to guest OS?

[hammerheadcorvette]

virt-manager has been deprecated for almost 2 yrs now, Cockpit has taken it's place per Red Hat.

[idcrafter-cgi]

3:28 you can game on Linux and a vm is required for anti cheats currently

[flyaware]

Can you suspend your host machine when running guests using vfio pci passthrough?

[mahdig]

Is it necessary that the user connect monitor cable to the spare GPU?

[__rafi__]

Wait so i cant one of my gpu
When vm is not on?

[Vedt]

Hi thx for this great howto. Can you explain how to change the vendor/device/subvendor ID in the XML i cant find it nowhere the arguments only what i find is the old
arguments bevor vrish/virtmanager