KVM-GPU-Passthrough VS vfio

Compare KVM-GPU-Passthrough vs vfio and see what are their differences.

KVM-GPU-Passthrough

This is a simple, mostly automated guide to pass a GPU through to a VM. (by BigAnteater)

vfio

This is the config for my VFIO gaming VM (by lennard0711)
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KVM-GPU-Passthrough

Posts with mentions or reviews of KVM-GPU-Passthrough. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-08.
  • Unsure of switching to Linux
    4 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 8 Jun 2023
    Look into creating a windows VM with GPU pass-through then. The benefit is you don't actually leave the linux environment while booting windows for gaming, and the performance hit to the game is minimal. Example: https://github.com/BigAnteater/KVM-GPU-Passthrough
  • Passing an AMD GPU through with an NVIDIA GPU for host
    1 project | /r/VFIO | 20 Apr 2023
    This guide is excellent, it worked as expected with 2 NVIDIA GPUs in my NixOS system: https://github.com/BigAnteater/KVM-GPU-Passthrough
  • 2 Things: Freeze on login screen after loading up vm | system doesn't load after isolating gpu
    2 projects | /r/VFIO | 14 Mar 2023
    I'm trying to run Win10 in kvm with a single gpu (rtx 2060) using this guide. But I can't manage to work it. Did everything through guide, checked that scripts works but when I start vm it stuck on terminal's login screen and I think that GPU disconnects from the host, but it doesn't go further than that.
  • [Mint 21.1] Running Single-GPU Passthrough VMM Issues!
    1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 2 Feb 2023
    I used this github page for a lot of the scripts and commands I ran.
  • Hello Linux all knowers. Few questions from a potential new user
    1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 29 Jan 2023
    Regarding VM with GPU passthrough I can only wish you best of luck. There are ways to do it but it is (and probably will stay) a massive pain. A normal dual boot from a separate drive might be your better option if they don't work. Just try them, you might be lucky and find the bronze title to work smoothly out of the box.
  • Black Screem after GPU passthrough
    1 project | /r/VFIO | 16 Jan 2023
    I followed this tutorial https://youtu.be/R5c25kV4tZ0 while also following the github tutorial used on the video ( https://github.com/BigAnteater/KVM-GPU-Passthrough ) which was a bit different that it shows on the video,so i guess it was updated and i mostly followed the github I had a few errors which i was able to easily solve but now,i start the vm it goes to a black screen and sometimes it shows a underscore at the top left blinking other times my monitor goes to sleep because it doesnt get signal. What can i do to try diagnose the problem? I've search this problem online (as it seems fairly common) and on those posts they ask about the logs but idk where those are located,i also have ssh setup so i can ssh into the pc after i boot the vm. I have a AMD graphics card (RX580) and an Intel CPU (i5-7600), i also have on the bios VTd or whatever its called enabled
  • Virtual Machine Manager Causing Host To Crash
    1 project | /r/archlinux | 14 Jan 2023
    Recently I've been having issues with virt-manager shutting down my entire computer every time I try to run Windows 10 through KVM. I've tried reinstalling every package that looks at all related to this. The issue seems to have started after following this guide for enabling GPU passthrough.   Any help is appreciated, please let me know if more info/logs are needed.
  • Virtual machine and driver problems.
    1 project | /r/computers | 11 Dec 2022
    The following guides are worth your attention as well. https://github.com/BigAnteater/KVM-GPU-Passthrough https://drakeor.com/2022/02/16/kvm-gpu-passthrough-tutorial/
  • Issues with single GPU passthough on Navi 22 [Radeon RX 6700/6700 XT / 6800M]
    1 project | /r/VFIO | 1 Dec 2022
    Where I had gotten the passthough files
  • Windows 10 KVM starts with a black screen and then exits but there are no errors!
    1 project | /r/VFIO | 6 Nov 2022
    I followed the guide from KVM-GPU-Passthrough step by step but I still encounter the same error.

vfio

Posts with mentions or reviews of vfio. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-06.
  • Bad performance KVM - QEMU
    2 projects | /r/VFIO | 6 Apr 2021
    Since we have a pretty similar setup, you can also look at my vfio repo: https://github.com/lennard0711/vfio

What are some alternatives?

When comparing KVM-GPU-Passthrough and vfio you can also consider the following projects:

NVIDIA-vBIOS-VFIO-Patcher - A Python script to patch NVIDIA vBIOS dumps into a format compatible with VFIO passthrough

auto-xorg - Automatically set the proper video output given a video device (VGA) is unavailable due to hardware-passthrough (VFIO) or any other reason, in the X.Org display environment for a Linux machine.

macos-virtualbox-vm - Instructions and script to help you create a VirtualBox VM running macOS.

kata-containers - Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs. https://katacontainers.io/

vendor-reset - Linux kernel vendor specific hardware reset module for sequences that are too complex/complicated to land in pci_quirks.c

Docker-OSX - Run macOS VM in a Docker! Run near native OSX-KVM in Docker! X11 Forwarding! CI/CD for OS X Security Research! Docker mac Containers.

GPU-Passthrough-Arch-Linux-to-Windows10 - GPU Passthrough and virt-manager walkthrough

libvirt-hooks - Install scripts (hooks) of which extend and enhance the functionality of Libvirt Virtual Machines (VMs). Hooks may be per VM, run at VM start or stop. Develop your own!

Complete-Single-GPU-Passthrough - Single GPU VFIO Passthrough Guide

quick-vm - Setup a Stealth Windows VM on any Linux system using Qemu/KVM.

vfio-void-linux - My libvirt/vfio config with GPU, NIC and NVME passthrough. Void Linux host, Win 11 guest (and other VMs)

vfio-pci-bind - Automatically bind a PCI device and all of it's IOMMU group members to vfio-pci