Complete-Single-GPU-Passthrough VS cassowary

I was trying to get single GPU passthrough to work on my RX 6700xt and Ryzen 5 5600 however after following this guidehttps://github.com/QaidVoid/Complete-Single-GPU-Passthrough I can no longer even launch any VMs or create any new ones. I get this error.

Im assuming you're on a single gpu setup and, as such are trying to do single gpu passthrough with a single nvidia card. so you'll likely have to run some libvirt hooks or smth to run scripts to unbind your gpu once you start your vm. In which case id suggest going through these two guides 1 2 which go over completely passing through your single gpu when you start your vm

Thanks for reply. I didn't find the issue, but I decided to install endeaveour just to not reinstall arch every hour and using this guide I managed to make it work. I guess on bare bones system I missed something every time I tried, but I'm not experienced enough to know what I didn't do to run it.

I have a similar use case. I good good guide to follow would be this but I also have my iGPU disabled completely.

not an expert on this, but you can use the single gpu passthrough scripts to unload/reload drivers for host/vm needs. (no reboots) ssh into the desktop pc and test out what works for you. https://github.com/QaidVoid/Complete-Single-GPU-Passthrough what helped me here was unbinding/binding the vtconsoles before unloading/loading drivers again via tty. If you do it directly on the machine, you may lose tty/framebuffer, which is why I suggested ssh.

I used this and it worked. https://github.com/QaidVoid/Complete-Single-GPU-Passthrough

Hello. I have an RX 6600, and I wanted to use single gpu pass through. I followed this guide. Everything worked fine, until I got to installing the drivers. Once they got installed I got a black screen. I know it installed successfully because I used teamviewer to look at my screen from a different PC. Any help would be appreciated.

I'm using virtualbox on my x220, of I really need windows. However, if you setup a VM from scratch anyway, I would rather go with KVM/QEMU and maybe even try https://github.com/casualsnek/cassowary, to launch the windows programms directly under Linux, with the VM running "in the background".

Overall, don't be afraid to switch distro (use Ventoy, load a few ISOs just in case), try to make sure you have an easy way of backing up your stuff (be it with a separate /home partition, or like I do with storing everything important in a separate drive and then using symlink to make it 'appear' in their 'default' places), and you can always use VM in a pinch (consult this guide or use quickemu or gnome-boxes)

In case some things you do absolutely needs Windows, keep this guide for setting up VM in mind, or use quickemu's GUI.

How are integrated VM solutions like cassowary on the surface pro? I need to run OneNote (this is a must as I am set all work on OneNote) to a decent level, with pen support.

Well, if I actually need office 365 for collaborating with someone, I use https://github.com/casualsnek/cassowary to actually run the Office Suite in a Windows VM and have it seeminglessly integrated into Linux.

Microsoft Office run in a Windows VM and integrated into Linux via Cassowary (https://github.com/casualsnek/cassowary). This requires installing libvirt and virt-manager in a rootful Distrobox (apparently Distrobox supports this only for Alma Linux and Tumbleweed, so the default Tumbleweed guest should be okay as long as you can run it with root) and installing the Python application Cassowary ("pip install cassowary") that then "finds" Microsoft Office in the VM and integrates it via FreeRDP so that you can for example click on an XLSX file in Dolphin and it opens in MS Excel running in the VM. Can this approach still work all in a Distrobox? So that basically I click on an XLSX file and it then opens in MS Excel running in the Windows VM in the Distrobox via Cassowary in the Distrobox? There's a lot of layers here, namely: MicroOS -> Distrobox -> [Cassowary + FreeRDP + Virt-Manager + libvirt] -> Windows VM -> MS Office, and I wonder if this would even work.

Imo QEMU/KVM has better performance than VirtualBox. There are also some tools like Cassowary to make Windows apps run as if they're native apps (e.g. without opening VM first). It's harder to setup than VirtualBox, though.

If you need to use complex Windows-only programs, use the KVM with GPU passthrough and cassowary. If it's reported to be working fine by the Wine's AppDB, you may want to use wine flatpak.