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LookingGlass
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VirGL
Unfortunately AMD cards suffer from a reset bug, still.
The reset bug being that you can pass through the card fine, once. But if you try to pass it through again (or the card experiences an issue and needs to reset), they get caught in some kind of bad state and won’t work until power is removed and restored. Which requires a reboot or a only slightly less disruptive dance with system power states.
For vega and 5000 series gpu’s, there’s https://github.com/gnif/vendor-reset
Incidentally, nvidia gpus are so good at resetting, they’ve probably done so without you noticing. If the screen ever goes black for a fraction of a second and returns in normal usage, it was probably because it reset itself.
The lower 6000 series lower than the 6800’s for example may or may not have the issue. It seems most “reference” cards are fine, but custom vendor cards often but not always have issues. My reference 6700 works fine, but a sapphire 6700 probably won’t.
And the 7000 series is also fucky in a new way somehow. Gnif knows far more about this than me, and has basically thrown up his hands at how AMD doesn’t care. He’s made occasional posts about it on https://forum.level1techs.com/
Gnif is also responsible for Looking glass: https://github.com/gnif/LookingGlass
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Virtual Machine stinkyness
You could try LookingGlass. That may require two GPUs.
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scrcpy 2.0 is released, with audio support!
It's a pair of apps, one runs on a Windows virtual machine, the other on the host OS, that uses shared memory to copy a passed-through GPUs frame buffer. Runs fast enough to get 4k/120fps very low latency, so if you have a spare GPU you can game on it in Windows, from a Linux desktop. https://github.com/gnif/LookingGlass
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Can you make a passed through GPU display to a emulated display in virt-manager?
Check out https://github.com/gnif/LookingGlass if you can accept a separate window.
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looking glass doesn't detect my mouse
then everything looks normal. It's all up to EGL though, as looking-glass really doesn't have any code that handles image scaling (see here).
- Looking glass B6 released!
- AMD RX580 passthrough with looking glass doesn't work
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The Death of the PCIe Expansion Card
https://github.com/Arc-Compute/LibVF.IO/tree/master/ plus https://github.com/gnif/LookingGlass works pretty well. If you use an Intel GPU, particularly one of their new Arc dedicated GPUs, it supports the functionality on the consumer grade hardware without any trickery and you just need Looking Glass to map the outputs.
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Passing audio from 1 VM to another for final mixing?
I'd like to introduce you to Looking Glass as a much higher quality and lower latency alternative to NDI when you are trying to relay frames between virtual machines within the same computer. With a patched nvidia driver to enable nvfbc on the gaming VM there is almost zero performance penalty when capturing gameplay. It also has options for audio, which I don't use because they didn't exist when I was configuring my system. I have a similar use case (gaming and streaming) and hardware (5950X + two gpus). I am not using proxmox, however. My configuration using QEMU and libvirt has this XML:
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Looking Glass Beta 5 Released!
What stopping from tagging a stable release? The milestone has no open issues.
calibre
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Calibre: Unlock the Data in Your Breath
Not to be confused with Calibre, the excellent ebook software by Kovid Goyal:
https://calibre-ebook.com/
- A newbie with two questions
- Kindle 2nd gen
- Send to Kindle
- Questions for “Unsupported” Kindle Users!
- Kindle can't find via USB transferred files?
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Need help editing epub in Sigil
Glad you were able to fix it, but what about trying Calibre? It is free and makes it easy to adjust things, add info, and change front covers.
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Manga on Kindle?
Or using Calibre (pdf or azw3) https://calibre-ebook.com
- kindle won’t show me books
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Ebooks
There are already some very good ebooks solutions out there so there's really no need. Calibre for the backend and database management, Calibre-Web for the front end, and Openbooks for content.
What are some alternatives?
OSX-KVM - Run macOS on QEMU/KVM. With OpenCore + Monterey + Ventura + Sonoma support now! Only commercial (paid) support is available now to avoid spammy issues. No Mac system is required.
zotero - Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share your research sources.
kvm-guest-drivers-windows - Windows paravirtualized drivers for QEMU\KVM
tachiyomi - Free and open source manga reader for Android.
barrier - Open-source KVM software
Readarr - Book Manager and Automation (Sonarr for Ebooks)
Magpie - An all-purpose window upscaler for Windows 10/11.
Sigil - Sigil is a multi-platform EPUB ebook editor
sndcpy - Android audio forwarding (scrcpy, but for audio)
Kavita - Kavita is a fast, feature rich, cross platform reading server. Built with the goal of being a full solution for all your reading needs. Setup your own server and share your reading collection with your friends and family.
QtScrcpy - Android real-time display control software
remarkable-hacks - additional functionality via binary patching