Demo - Single GPU Passthrough - Windows VM on Linux

Finally tried Single GPU Passthrough. Took about 3 hours to setup. Works way better than I was expecting. VFIO is still awesome

I set this up using these instructions. Stay tuned for a tutorial coming soon!

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[thomasaquinas]

Well this was amazing. Thanks for putting in the time to show us how easy it is with one graphics card.

[phamaral]

This is Awesome! Definetly going to try this when your tutorial comes out.

[alexandrehuot]

God!... I thought this was impossible with dual GPU or dual boot... this is a game changer!

[dustinphillips]

I appreciate that work you are doing. One bit of feedback is that your audio in the videos is SUPER quiet. I have to crank up my volume and cup my hands around my headphones to hear you.

[davechristoffersen]

Amazing work steve cant wait for the tutorial

[Xalatesh]

thats awesome, having linux as main and still play xbox game pass games in the VM, definitly gonna try that

[MeshVoid]

This is insanely cool, I really want to try it now!

[houndsol]

cool, definitely going to set this up. I didn't know about this

[MetaPikachu]

I have a second GPU and set up a whole GPU passthrough. The problem being I game both on linux and on windows so having to allocate and restart the whole computer for some huge pages to work just works since i do the same in the same time with a dualboot pc. Maybe you did some magical tomfuckery to make it work good, idk at this point. I can see that because you have a single GPU you can't use the host system, which for me is the big hook benefit of vm gaming.

[Ethorbit]

GPU passthrough is awesome and it's what made me switch from Windows to Linux.
My setup uses an RX 550 for Linux and a GTX 1060 6GB for Virtual Machines, it works wonderfully, you can have desktop programs from both Windows and Linux running simultaneously this way.


My only complaint with a setup like this, is that swapping the GPUs around to do the GPU intensive work on baremetal Linux instead can take up to 30 minutes to get Xorg, video drivers and etc working; but this isn't really a problem, because you could just create a Linux VM and pass the good GPU there.

[Marco-xzrf]

Does that reset the linux desktop? like if i open a few programs and boot windows and go back to linux, will everything still be there or is it resetting the desktop?

[aa]

is it possible to use the main gpu host like you did but then make it so that the DE on linux uses a different gpu when you switch?

so rtx 4090 gets switched onto windows and then as a fallback the linux DE gets a 1080

[bleakCode]

what are the odds I am watching the office and I see their being a homemade game setup of "THE office"

[darkmhk]

I just recently found your channel and am loving the content and subscribed. I will be switching soon to linux vm gaming once i get my gpu. Do you you have any idea of how vr games perform using vfio?

[nikoraasu]

Hey I wanted to ask, because I couldn't really find a clear answer online, can I passthrough my "main" gpu?
Basically my RTX2060 is in the first PCIe 3.0 x16 slot, and in the second slot (PCIe 2.0 x4) I have a GTX960, and I do not want to bottleneck my RTX with that slot so I won't put it there. So now my RTX is kind of "locked" into the system as the main GPU and I can't even isolate it from the host. Is it still possible to passthrough the RTX, or should I just give up on that and passthrough the 960?

[mumer]

I have HP Envy 15 q006tx laptop with NVIDIA 850M gpu and it has Optimus technology, how can I do this on Fedora??

[bettdiaz]

Wow!! Nice job! I really would like to know how to setup this :)

[xy]

how to do GPU Passthrough linux vm on linux

can you give a link i cant find how to search

[crafters]

Does this log out of the Linux DE or was the GDM login just because the screen locked? So if you had multiple programs running, would those have been closed?

[pixelsat-odysee]

Curious, I typically run ten of the same Steam games on ten different accounts on ten different VM's on my windows PC. Since Linux is so much more powerful, is there a way of virtualizing ten different Steam accounts on Linux, so I am actually idling all of them simultaneously, and able to switch between them instantly like I already am doing in Windows?

Only difference is, in Windows, I cannot play the game competitively because VMWARE has mouse locking issues where my mouse flies outside of the game if I move the mouse too fast which is very irritating. Version 7 did not have this issue, but 15 has the ability of utilizing 16 cores for it's VM's.

Started using Ubuntu Linux V23. Took me two days to build Steam Desktop Authenticator on Linux and I am unable to figure out how to make a .desktop file for the desktop. I can run the executable manually but that's it. I love the fact that Linux allows users to customize things and hate the fact that a simple configuration error can brick your operating system. If it takes me forever to learn, that is what it is gonna take as I very much dislike Microsoft and do not wish to use their operating systems any more. I could always have a VM of Windows 7 and XP on the side if I ever need it for legacy hardware or running old games.

Pointless running a VM which needs to be shut down to be switching between your host system or other VM's. I have multiple hard drives I can utilize, but GPU's take up too much room in my desktop. I also have many monitors, but I prefer using one monitor to quickly switch between games running.

Is this possible?
Do not answer if it is no. I only want idea's or solutions. And yes, I am still running two computers Side by Side one with Linux and other with Microsoft. Once I figure it out, I can retire my second PC.