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 […]
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Comprehensive guide to performance optimizations for gaming on virtual machines with KVM/QEMU and PCI passthrough
Article is under construction! Gaming on virtual machines – Preamble This guide describes performance optimizations for virtual machines (VM) with GPU passthrough which have gaming as their main use case scenario (don’t bother, straight to the config). In the beginning, when I started focusing on virtualized gaming, especially demanding online multiplayer games, I thought only […]
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. […]