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Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with native performance

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Re: Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with native performance

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You can also pass through more than just a GPU. I pass through an NVMe disk and a USB controller, effectively giving me a full second computer within my workstation. It's honestly fantastic.

Ok. And I assume that’ll all work at PCI speeds making it much more performant than using virtio-based forwarding. Sounds neat. Do I need to do anything besides UEFI boot my virt-manager (QEMU) VM to make use of things like this?

I generally followed this guide, despite working from another distro: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF

The biggest pain every time I've done this is making sure that I can bind the device to the vfio driver.

Re: Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with native performance

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What about machines with dual graphics cards, like one intel on board and another nvidia? Would that be OK? I ask because many laptops used to have similar setups.

In theory yes, but I concluded my attempts on a Dell 9570 with “forget it”.

I fear I'll get a similar result.
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