Single-GPU-Passthrough VS vfio

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

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Single-GPU-Passthrough

Posts with mentions or reviews of Single-GPU-Passthrough. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-17.
  • Beginner questions re: running Windows in a virtual machine (linux host)
    2 projects | /r/VFIO | 17 Jun 2023
  • How to disable nvidia drivers?
    2 projects | /r/VFIO | 13 May 2023
    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
  • Windows on Btrfs
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Apr 2023
  • GPU virtualization, RTX 3000, Nvidia, and KVM?
    2 projects | /r/VFIO | 9 Apr 2023
  • Does anyone know of a tutorial for doing single GPU(Nvidia) passthrough on Fedora 37?
    3 projects | /r/VFIO | 16 Feb 2023
    I used this tutorial before for Arch linux and it works https://github.com/joeknock90/Single-GPU-Passthrough. However I am using Fedora now and I'm trying to make sense of what I need to change or if I should follow a different tutorial.
  • GPU Passthrough
    4 projects | /r/Proxmox_BR | 29 Jan 2023
    Pci passthrough https://github.com/mbilker/vgpu_unlock-rs https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock/issues/91 https://gitlab.com/polloloco/vgpu-proxmox https://github.com/joeknock90/Single-GPU-Passthrough https://gitlab.com/YuriAlek/vfio#start-here https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/b5xpua/the_ultimate_beginners_guide_to_gpu_passthrough/ https://forum.level1techs.com/t/single-gpu-passthrough-with-proxmox/113282/2 https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/problem-with-gpu-passthrough.55918/
  • GPU Passthough works but not the teardown.
    2 projects | /r/VFIO | 6 Dec 2022
    I used the script/tutorial form here The startup to VM works but the teardown doesn't. I experimented with other peoples teardown scripts like this one - edited to my system and as i said above, it does come back to the desktop but with an issue.
  • SUCCESS - Identical GPU passthrough, One of Fedora host, another for Windows 11 guest
    5 projects | /r/VFIO | 29 Nov 2022
    QaidVoid and Joeknock - VFIO hooks for Single GPU passthrough
  • My virtual machine with a single gpu passthrough only works for a few minutes, then works only with new machine
    2 projects | /r/VFIO | 20 Nov 2022
    Hello, I tried to make virtual machine with a single GPU passthrough for general gaming purposes. I followed this guide and this one and this is what my setup looks like: using Arch Linux as my OS, grub parameters look like this: `GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=3 amd_iommu=on iommu=pt video=efifb:off iommu=1"`, enabled iommu in bios (iommu groups look like that), installed those packages - `virt-manager qemu vde2 ebtables iptables-nft nftables dnsmasq bridge-utils ovmf kvm`, changed user and group in /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf to my username and my username's group (also added to kvm and libvirt group to my username), set up win 10 virtual instance with virt-manager, changed bios to UEFI (/usr/share/edk2-ovmf/x64/OVMF_CODE.fd), set topology to 1 socket 6 cores 2 threads, passed my usb mouse,keyboard and microphone to it, passed GPU and audio controller as PCI (tried using rom file for both of those, with or without - the same problem occurs), first I was trying to use risingprismtv's script for starting up and reverting vm and this The Libvirt Hook Helper with my own scripts for the start and revert states.
  • Virtualization software detected, it's new ?
    3 projects | /r/apexlegends | 26 Oct 2022
    Last year my pc has 2 graphic cards (a small geforce and and rtx 2070) i was using qemu and can switch between linux and windows easyli. Since 4 month i use now one graphic card and can't switch like before (when windows is in use, I need to shutdown to get back to linux). But it's really work. You can use passthrough with one graphic card. Tuto : https://github.com/joeknock90/Single-GPU-Passthrough

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 2021-06-27.
  • Help making a GPU Passthrough and setting up a VM.
    2 projects | /r/VFIO | 27 Jun 2021
    I've had Windows and Linux on dualboot for a while now, because of that i usually stayed on Windows as I didn't want to have to restart my PC everytime just to go from watching youtube to playing (Windows supports my graphics card [GTX 1050 2GB Vram] better then linux, at least on the games I play). I have tried to make a VM of windows before but it didn't run well, at least not well enough for gaming. So recently when I found out about GPU passthrough I saw It as a way to main Linux and still game on Windows. I know the process of doing It is hard (I already failed it twice), so as I noticed that tutorials on the internet didn't really help me, I decided to come in here. I've mainly seen 2 guides on how to do It, those being joeknock90's (link: https://github.com/joeknock90/Single-GPU-Passthrough) and YuriAlek's (link: https://gitlab.com/YuriAlek/vfio), and I don't know which one would be better for my case.
  • Failed to Create VM
    3 projects | /r/VFIO | 7 Apr 2021
    I've been following these guides, mixing and matching info (https://github.com/bryansteiner/gpu-passthrough-tutorial, https://gitlab.com/YuriAlek/vfio/, https://github.com/joeknock90/Single-GPU-Passthrough) as well as the archlinux wiki. I think I setup the boot loader, hooks and stuff correctly.
  • Single GPU passthrough with Ryzen CPU+Radeon GPU
    3 projects | /r/VFIO | 17 Mar 2021
    You can start from Arch Wiki first, just setup a basic standard KVM without Pass through and vfio, then check out this to get the ideas for a single GPU passthrough, and make your own script(scripts are going to be little bit different because they all use nvidia GPU), and if you have any other questions you can ask :)

What are some alternatives?

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

macOS-Simple-KVM - Tools to set up a quick macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM.

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

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.

forcefully-remove-bootfb - releases memory areas used for BOOTFB for linux/kvm/vfio/pci-passthrough

gvt-linux

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

WSL - Issues found on WSL

rom-parser

gpu-passthrough-tutorial

single-gpu-passthrough

macOS-KVM - Streamlined macOS QEMU KVM Hackintosh configuration using OpenCore and libvirt

wslg - Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios