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Is there an easy way of having a vm with gpu pass through to play windows games ? (lemmy.ml)

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Basically the title. I’ve only ever seen huge 20 page guides on how to make it work. Is there an easy way?

Specifically on Debian or Arch with a laptop with two gpus (zephyrus g14)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I have the 2020 G14 and I got this working once. I'm afraid easy and simple are not a thing here, as you need to understand what you're doing if you want it to work well. The basics are:

Prevent the host system from loading any drivers that touch the discrete GPU. This is done by attaching it to the VFIO driver and uninstalling/blacklisting the Nvidia and Nouveau drivers.
Make sure you have the correct kernel parameters to support virtualisation and PCI-e passthrough.
Create a Windows VM and attach the Nvidia GPU to it.
Setup Looking Glass so you can play with the best possible latency. This will likely require a dummy USB-C display stick.

Personally, I don't think it's worth the hassle. I keep a Windows install for when it's needed, and do most of my gaming on a separate system.