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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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 […]
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. […]