NVIDIA GPU passthrough guides used to get a Windows 10 gaming VM

windows_10_kvm.md

Dual GPU with Hotswapping

Single GPU passthrough

Helper script for gpu ** used tranparent hugepages script, as suggested on their github

Keyboard/Mouse passthrough for host/guest | Guest needs virtio drivers | Set storage io from native to threads to reduce mouse-lag

CPU pinning helped reduce some but not all stuttering

Further optimizations as well as changing used cores to "performance" on AMD stopped most stuttering and improved fps ** lscpu -e - shows cores and cache groupings quickly

** some anti-cheats actively block VM users

Setup

• Motherboard: Asrock TRX40 Taichi
• CPU: AMD Threadripper 3960x
• GPU: NVIDIA 1080TI - EVGA SE Black Edition

Issues

1. AMD GPUs (only had a knockoff radeon 550x miner card that was $80 and AMD MSI R9 380 from an old build*need to double check name)

• GPU crashes when starting graphical interfaces, disabled for grub by adding nomodeset and removed rghb quiet and then disabled display-manager(lightdm in my case) w/ systemctl
• Black screen/bios wont post at times when using CSM "enabled", disable it (AMD gpus would still be picked up w/ CSM enabled but blackscreen during boot process and hanged unless nvidia was primary)
• ** Xserver still crashed w/ these AMD GPUs but could use it as a second screen/offloading if NVIDIA ran xserver or headless(during passthrough).
• ** skipped for the time being as legit AMD card passed down and 550x card is bricked for the time being and could not be rescued w/ any ATI version as it is not detected, including dos, might try some of the hardware suggestions for reset or I'll just get another real AMD card later)