This article describes my migration from Lightroom to open source alternatives, such as Darktable, using xmp sidecar files. I will explain the required migration steps, my photography workflow as well as a bit about the technical background. Preamble I used Adobe Lightroom for the past ten years. Although I am in no way a professional […]
Beginner friendly guide to windows virtual machines with GPU passthrough on Ubuntu 18.04; or how to play competitive games in a virtual machine.
Preamble The intent of this document is to provide a complete, step-by-step guide on how to setup a virtual machine(VM) with graphics cards(GPU) passthrough – detailed enough that even Linux rookies are able to participate. The final system will run Xubuntu 18.04 as host operating system(OS), and Windows 10 as guest OS, considering gaming as […]
Synchronization between photo development tools, or the migration from Lightroom to open-source alternatives.
This article describes settings, steps and problems during the migration process from Lightroom to open-source alternatives.
My recommended list of apps – tools I install on my mum’s android mobile.
Quite similar to the list of software, the purpose of this article is to save me some time. I have realized that every time I resurrect the beloved device of a family member, I install the same list of android apps. In the future, if a friend or family member needs software advice, I will […]
My standard list of software – tools I install on my mum’s computer.
The purpose of this article is to save me some time. I have realized that every time I resurrect the beloved machine of a family member, I install the list of software. Update: I have also created an Android version of this article. In the future, if a friend or family member needs […]
CPU-pinning and further performance tweaks for virtual machines on AMD Ryzen CPUs
Considering gaming as the main use case for my passthrough setup I try to minimize the latency on the guest (don’t bother, straight to the config). One knob to turn in order to squeeze out more snappiness is CPU-pinning. This will allocate CPU-cores for mainly (or solely) Guest tasks, when the Guest is running. One […]
Fighting error 43 – Nvidia GPU in a virtual machine
The infamous error 43 is the answer of Nvidia windows driver, in case it recognizes the GPU is used inside a virtual machine with GPU passthrough. Luckily, with a few tweaks in the virtual machine configuration file the Nvidia driver can be tricked. System setup This method worked for me with these system evironment: Host: […]
Virtual machine audio setup – or how to get pulse audio working
In this post, I compare several options of how to get the sound output from an KVM virtual machine guest, back into the host. I will compare spice server, pulse audio and a hardware solution. The complete guide on how to setup a virtual machine with GPU passthrough in Ubuntu 16.04 can be found here. […]
Reminder to myself: How to use fstab
This is a short reminder to myself about common mounting use-cases during boot time using fstab. Overview General Mount ext partitions (unix standart) Mount ntfs partitions (windows standart) Mount samba folders General In order to mount folder during boot, edit fstab via: sudo nano /etc/fstab Identify partitions via UUID no by name (e.g. not by […]
AMD Ryzen based passthrough setup between (X)Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10
Preamble The intent of this document is to provide a complete, step-by-step guide on how to setup a virtual machine(VM) with graphics cards(GPU) passthrough – detailed enough that even Linux rookies are able to participate. The final system will run Xubuntu 16.04 as host operating system(OS), and Windows 10 as guest OS, considering gaming as […]