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Originally posted by qarium View Post
You're impressing noone by LARP'ing as an angsty 1990's Linux enthusiast, bro. It's (EDIT: nearly) 2023.
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Originally posted by Artim View Post
The question is: what's really missing?
An easy and fast (like natively fast) way to share files between host and guest such that windows doesn't really care that they aren't native files.
Anti-cheat in games that works even in a VM.
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Originally posted by cynyr View Post
SR-IOV support by mainstream GPUs. (or other natively fast way to get full hardware level access to the GPU from the guest)
An easy and fast (like natively fast) way to share files between host and guest such that windows doesn't really care that they aren't native files.
Anti-cheat in games that works even in a VM.
With SR-IOV I don't really see how that would benefit you compared to the already existing stuff like PCIe passthrough, libvirt.
File sharing between host and guest shouldn't be any problem. You should just be able to share folders. How much of native speed they have I can't tell, but if Windows cares about that or not it's entirely up to MS.
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Originally posted by Artim View PostWith SR-IOV I don't really see how that would benefit you compared to the already existing stuff like PCIe passthrough, libvirt.
According to Microsoft's introduction to it, "The SR-IOV specification from PCI-SIG defines the extensions to the PCI Express (PCIe) specification suite that enable multiple virtual machines (VMs) to share the same PCIe physical hardware resources."
In other words, sounds to me like it'd save the cost of buying two GPUs and a motherboard suitable to put them both in.
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Originally posted by ssokolow View PostAccording to Microsoft's introduction to it, "The SR-IOV specification from PCI-SIG defines the extensions to the PCI Express (PCIe) specification suite that enable multiple virtual machines (VMs) to share the same PCIe physical hardware resources."
In other words, sounds to me like it'd save the cost of buying two GPUs and a motherboard suitable to put them both in.
Originally posted by Artim View PostWell, Anti-Cheat will probably never work in a VM. It has never been more than some whacky tech doing wild guesses that works more through sheer luck than anything else.
With SR-IOV I don't really see how that would benefit you compared to the already existing stuff like PCIe passthrough, libvirt.
File sharing between host and guest shouldn't be any problem. You should just be able to share folders. How much of native speed they have I can't tell, but if Windows cares about that or not it's entirely up to MS.
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Originally posted by ssokolow View Post
According to Microsoft's introduction to it, "The SR-IOV specification from PCI-SIG defines the extensions to the PCI Express (PCIe) specification suite that enable multiple virtual machines (VMs) to share the same PCIe physical hardware resources."
In other words, sounds to me like it'd save the cost of buying two GPUs and a motherboard suitable to put them both in.
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Originally posted by Quackdoc View Post
because PCIe Passthrough sucks, much better to have the window act like a fullscreen window on the guest, with only a single gpu needed, with sriov it can be a lot more integreated at the trade off of a bit of performance.
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Originally posted by Artim View Post
Ever tried the libvirt solution? It sounds like a passthrough in the opposite direction. E.g. they just added hardware acceleration for h.264 and h.265. Though I don't know if it works only with Linux guests or also with Windows guests.
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Originally posted by Quackdoc View Post
ah you mean virgl? yeah thats only linux guests at the moment, and the preformance is pretty poor, a collabora dev is working on getting virgl venus working (vulkan instead of opengl) on qemu, when that happens their might be interest in getting that working on windows, but for now virtio-gpu is limited to linux guests.
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