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just run winblows on your gaming machine and use it as a console, get a small nuc or something like that and use that for day to day computer use with the *nix OS of your choice

>>1002382 (OP)

VMs are kinda a pain so get a separate PC if possible. It's much easier that way and you don't lose any performance.

Anw I have a setup on Arch with a GTX 1060. It does kinda work, had to tweak it a bit though.

Anw since you have 2 identical cards, it'll be harder to passthrough just one.

Also AMD cards have their issues too. Unless you buy a pro card that has VFIOs ready for passthrough you're using them for purposes unintended by the manufacturer.

Just check the arch wiki article on VFIO.

>>1002382 (OP)

https://unraid.net/

There are a few tutorials out there for exactly what you want to do. Its hypervisor component is KVM/QEMU.

>>1002382 (OP)

Here's another nigger. Listen. Windows 10 is the best OS suited for virtualization. Before you cry out botnet, do make sure to get LTSB, which is relatively free of all the shit it has. Don't use Windows 7. It wasn't made with virtualization in mind, at least not as much as Windows 10. Besides, it doesn't matter how much botnet it has, it's a fucking VM, so get the latest.

As for the host OS, try using Parabola with OpenRC or Artix, both Arch variants with no systemd. Great options.

Don't get AMD if you're going to pass it through, especially not Vega. They suffer from the reset bug, which consists in the card not being able to power cycle once the VM's off, it means that you have to reset the host if you want to turn off the guest. Get nvidia, it has the code 43 error but it can be easily circunvented.

Follow this guide. Don't use libvirt or virt-manager. Don't use unRAID. Grow some fucking hair on your chest. https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/PCI_passthrough

>>1002407

Retard.

>>1002409

They're not a pain if you're actually literate and bother to read the fucking manual.

>>1002501

You're a faggot for recommending a paid solution over something that can be done completely free as in freedom.

Don't bother, VMs are a meme.

If you don't have a development use for a Virtual machine then you really shouldn't be using it.

If all you want to do is run windows, just run windows.

Having windows in a virtual machine doesn't make it any less of a botnet then if it wasn't, and it can hardly be called "gaymin on linux" because you're running it on windows. same thing goes for wine

Just run windows if you want it so badly. If you want to use *nix or *nix things, just run *nix.

Dual booting is the meme everyone spreads around, but i wouldn't suggest that either cause windows likes to kill off gnu/linux partitions.

Install them on two seperate harddrives and tie it together in grub. or, in the better case if you have multiple computers avaible to you, just install linux on a cheap pc and put wangblows on your ultra gaymen pc-master race tier build and suck the windows dick cause you can't get vidyagaymes without lowering your intelligence anyway.

NVidia drivers do not allow PCIE passthrough on consumer cards AFAIK. You need Quadro.

>>1002568

You misunderstand what OP is asking and looking for. You are retarded. "VMs are a meme" is what someone who doesn't understand the problem domain would say

>>1002566

go back to /g/ you fucking faggot

>>1002382 (OP)

>Gentoo didn't install the nvidia drivers

it's just emerge x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ?

If it isn't working, you might need to recompile your kernel with the correct flags as per https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NVidia/nvidia-drivers/

As for what is the better VM: it's qemu.

Virtualbox is much more retrictive to what you can do with the VM itself because it's designed to be basic and work for mostly development purposes.

Qemu, while also heavily for development, it allows for more customization in options and generally has more going on.

>. Is it stupid to want to run the host OS through one gfx card and the guest through the other, and so plug a monitor into each card?

This is literally what GPU passthrough is, you need a hostcard and a seperate card for kvm.

>I have 2x gtx1070

You're fucked. You can't use two of the same type of GPU it makes detection and seperation of indivisual cards hard as shit

>why is it so fucking difficult to set this up in xorg.conf

h'wat? wouldn't you normally do that at boot not during Xsession?

>>1002568

>Don't bother, VMs are a meme.

no

fucking retard

>>1002602

OP made it quite clear that he was asking about VM use for running non native proprietary software with gpu intence requirements.

Thus, the answer given was perfectly within it's bounds.

>>1002604

Faggotnigger, the Install Gentoo wiki is a joint venture between 8/tech/ and 4/g/, it's recommended in our sticky. Read it.

>>1002620

You can distinguish both cards, you just have to differentiate them through their PCI ID.

Why don't you just game on Linux? nVidia's drivers run just as well on both systems, Vulkan runs faster on Linux in most scenarios.

>>1002645

>it's recommended in our sticky

BO is a fag though, he recommends it because he's from halfchan.

>>1002627

Explain to me how running windows for gamining withing a sandboxed VM is useful when your breaking that very sandbox and passing direct controll to the hardware anyway?

You might aswell just use windows at that point.

>>1002407

This, why even bother to passthrough or dual boot? It's also safer to separate botnets with physical hardware.

>>1002566

>OP failed gentoo

>OP says xorg.conf is difficult

>OP doesn't care about libre

>OP has NVidia card (works great with unraid)

<recommends him gentoo again

You're either malicious or stupid. Probably a bit of both judging by your temperament.

>>1002382 (OP)

unRAID has a free 30 day trial, and its only 60 bucks if you want to keep it. It's super fucking easy and performant, up to you if that's worth 1-2 hours of wage pay.

>>1002816

You can't learn to cook without breaking a few eggs.

>>1002816

t. unraid employee

>>1002816

You don't know how to read. Read my post again. Where exactly does it say that I'm recommending him Gentoo? DId you read that word once and believe I was doing that? I was telling him to go look at the Install Gentoo wiki, not the Gentoo wiki, and definitely not to install Gentoo. Note the Install.

>>1002902

Must be a woman going by her reading comprehension.

>>1002918

>Where exactly does it say that I'm recommending him Gentoo?

The part where you point him to a Install Gentoo guide and say "Follow this guide."

>>1003002

You're here and you don't know that meme. Just get out. Don't even lurk. Out.

>>1003034

You're on the wrong board, fren

>>>/g/

>>1003085

>>1003034

t. samefag

>>1002566

>LTSB

Server 2016 faggot. No forced updates. No gay shit.

"pci passthrough" is meme of the decade probably invented by nvidia marketing exects to sell an extra thousand or two cards.

>>1003350

>It's boring and has systemd but it's stable and it works.

ftfy

>>1003355

My reading comprehension was off. Now try replacing the init in Q4OS and see what happens next.

>>1002588

The workaround needed involves an extra parameter in the QEMU command for initialising the VM. That's it. After that, GeForce cards run just fine, as if they were on bare metal. Quite a few people are using VMs with those cards successfully.

>>1002382 (OP)

Just dual boot. Pick up your phone if you can't handle not looking at a screen for 20 seconds while your pc is restarting.

VFIO is a reddit-tier meme that's been shilled hard lately. It's cool that it's possible but it's pointless hipster solution in the end. Some of the /r/vfio users are resorting to buying kms devices because they only have one monitor. You would at best save 5 seconds over dual boot with that setup. It's a waste of hobby like overclocking that's not actually useful but feels productive.

>Q4OS shill from cuckchan does not realize that a botnet browser is installed by default in his distro which is basically "we want the XP audience: the lightweight but systemdicked distro"

What a shitty thread overall.

>>1002382 (OP)

Pic unreal

>>1002787

any data collected is useless if you can't transfer it home, can the GPU access networking hardware?

proxmox