Virtual box has graphical configuration for a ton of different options. It also “just works” in many cases and is relatively easy to use.
I am surprised the open source community has not built better gui tools, and no project, closed or open has made configuring pcie passthrough easy.
I have always wanted to be able to run Windows in a virtualized session with my GPU for gaming, and use my onboard APU for the Linux host, but the configuration is daunting, and many of the games I play today don’t work on linux thanks to anticheat or DRM.
> I am surprised the open source community has not built better gui tools
This is the thing that isn't surprising.
In order to make a better GUI tool, you have to understand how the internals work. Then you don't care to use a GUI tool because you know how to use the command line or edit the configuration files. The people who want better GUI tools are the people who don't know how to make them.
In order to change this, the people who want GUI tools but don't know how to make them have to provide some incentive (typically money) to the people who know how to make them but don't want them, e.g. via donations or some kind of commercial agreement. And if they stand around and wonder why nobody else has fixed their problem for them instead of doing the thing that causes it to be fixed, an object at rest tends to remain at rest.
> The Open Virtual Machine Firmware (OVMF) is a project to enable UEFI support for virtual machines. Starting with Linux 3.9 and recent versions of QEMU, it is now possible to passthrough a graphics card, offering the virtual machine native graphics performance which is useful for graphic-intensive tasks
eek2121|2 years ago
I am surprised the open source community has not built better gui tools, and no project, closed or open has made configuring pcie passthrough easy.
I have always wanted to be able to run Windows in a virtualized session with my GPU for gaming, and use my onboard APU for the Linux host, but the configuration is daunting, and many of the games I play today don’t work on linux thanks to anticheat or DRM.
AnthonyMouse|2 years ago
This is the thing that isn't surprising.
In order to make a better GUI tool, you have to understand how the internals work. Then you don't care to use a GUI tool because you know how to use the command line or edit the configuration files. The people who want better GUI tools are the people who don't know how to make them.
In order to change this, the people who want GUI tools but don't know how to make them have to provide some incentive (typically money) to the people who know how to make them but don't want them, e.g. via donations or some kind of commercial agreement. And if they stand around and wonder why nobody else has fixed their problem for them instead of doing the thing that causes it to be fixed, an object at rest tends to remain at rest.
westurner|2 years ago
"GPU passthrough with libvirt qemu kvm" https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GPU_passthrough_with_libvirt_qe...
"PCI passthrough via OVMF" https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF :
> The Open Virtual Machine Firmware (OVMF) is a project to enable UEFI support for virtual machines. Starting with Linux 3.9 and recent versions of QEMU, it is now possible to passthrough a graphics card, offering the virtual machine native graphics performance which is useful for graphic-intensive tasks
KVM-GPU-Passthrough: https://github.com/BigAnteater/KVM-GPU-Passthrough
https://clayfreeman.github.io/gpu-passthrough/
photonbeam|2 years ago