optimus-vfio-docs VS Single-GPU-Passthrough

You can follow jscinoz's guide to see if you can get it going for yourself in some very limited cases, but overall it's quite an involved task with a lot of work to succeed.

Hi. I have the same model and it is definitely possible to passthrough the NVIDIA GPU. I don't think USB-C port is connected to the GPU and I always use the HDMI one. You need to connect with a monitor or a HDMI plug otherwise the GPU will not work. I also patched OVMF to include ROM (https://github.com/jscinoz/optimus-vfio-docs/issues/2) and a fake battery. I have a hook script to switch GPU on and off using bbswitch. I use this rom since other didn't work or have some problems. I allocated 3 of 4 cores to the VM. For me, the performance is okay for games that I play. I tried Valorant a few months ago with Looking Glass and performance is not that good, however.

This whole thing started 2 years ago when I tried passing my nvidia dGPU to get it working on a Windows guest for Autodesk programs (aka, that joyful company that hates everything non-Windows and free), but lo and behold, it didn't work! Shocker! So I followed through 2 sources: - This issue thread - This guide

Link to hook scripts: https://github.com/joeknock90/Single-GPU-Passthrough

Yes but that's a different kettle of fish. You then don't need two gpus, although if you do it can be useful. Start here and see how deep the rabbit hole goes https://github.com/joeknock90/Single-GPU-Passthrough

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

Single GPU passthrough: https://github.com/joeknock90/Single-GPU-Passthrough

Out of curiosity, who is Muta, the video dude, or the guide writer, or someone else? From the GitHub it sounded like running the commands from the guide would create a qemu.d/[VM Name]/prepare/begin/start.sh . If I were to simply create those directories myself, and then script as described in the video, I should be good?

Thanks for the info. Some of these I recognize from a single gpu passthrough project on github that i used on my main rig... https://github.com/joeknock90/Single-GPU-Passthrough