Passing through
I’m a (relatively) new subscriber to your wonderful magazine and have been loving the back issues and the monthly goodness coming through my letterbox. However, I was dismayed that I couldn’t find anything about VFIO GPU passthrough in any of the back issues? Is it really that niche?
It might be controversial to say, but I would really appreciate some coverage of running a Windows virtual machine for those pesky games that don’t run natively
on Linux. My desktop is now an Ubuntu server and I can hear it crying out for a monitor and keyboard once again. Dualbooting isn’t an option, sadly. Scott Stevenson, via email.
Jonni says: Sadly?! GPU passthrough is a little niche, but that didn’t stop me covering it in my Virtualisation feature in LXF227. It was just a couple of pages, and I could only really talk about my own set up (Radeon 290X for the Windows guest and GTX680 on the host running Arch Linux). It’s a bit of a hardware lottery: lots of the popular Intel chips and motherboards don’t support IO-APIC, and you may need a new video BIOS image. But I was happy to get it working.