seabios VS vfio

Compare seabios vs vfio and see what are their differences.

seabios

Mirror of git.qemu.org/seabios.git (by qemu)

vfio

A script for easy pci and usb passthrough along with disks, iso's and other useful flags for quick tinkering with less of a headache. I use it for VM gaming and other PCI/LiveCD/PXE/VM/RawImage testing given the script's accessibility. (by ipaqmaster)
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seabios vfio
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50 172
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0.0 7.0
6 months ago 12 days ago
C Shell
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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seabios

Posts with mentions or reviews of seabios. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-03.

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 2023-04-02.
  • How hard is it to set up a Single GPU Passthrough Win10 VM
    3 projects | /r/VFIO | 2 Apr 2023
    If you love wasting time you could give my script a shot as well from a terminal with your gpu as the -pci argument, but you'll also want to give it your USB controllers too.
  • I Gave up VFIO due to I/O problems causing stutter in any VM - Unsuccessful/Unpopular Story
    2 projects | /r/VFIO | 2 Dec 2022
    These boot arguments allow me to give my VM cores 3,11 to my guest while my host continues to operate (and handle any IOThreads I may have running for the guest) on the remaining cores 0(thread0,12), core1(thread1,13) and core3 (thread2,14). Personally, I handle my pinning dynamically with a bash script I wrote and still today find myself adding features and making improvements to. It can be found here if you want to give it a shot for your use case.
  • QEMU/KVM with VFIO passthrough kinda slow
    2 projects | /r/VFIO | 10 Jun 2022
    You may wish to try my vfio script which handles all of that automatically. Could be worth a try.
  • Single GPU issues (Arch Linux)
    2 projects | /r/VFIO | 18 May 2022
    I've missed no opportunity to plug it lately, but the slew of people using hardcoded scripts copy-pasted from some guide or youtube video has never felt right to me. I made my own dynamic script which handles most vfio problems on the fly rather than hardcoding start.sh/stop.sh scripts per configuration. It could be worth checking out given I made it for Archlinux (my desktop) and you seem to be running that too.
  • How to passthru my RTX 2080 ti to a Windows vm only within raw qemu commands...
    2 projects | /r/VFIO | 3 Dec 2021
    You may wish to dig through or simply execute my script which does the exact same thing and extra. I didn't want to use hardcoded VM XMLs and up/down scripts so I made a script which does it all for me, and when run in dry mode outputs all the qemu arguments it would have used. I'm constantly improving it every chance I get, but as it currently stands, if you gave it some PCI arguments it would spit out some potentially useful qemu arguments which could be useful in your scenario described above.
  • virt-manager gets stuck at "creating domain"
    2 projects | /r/VFIO | 17 Nov 2021
    It's up to you whether you want to reserve it for the VM at boot and never use it (Waste of resources imo) or just unbind the nvidia driver and pass it through on the fly. Some PCI devices don't like it I've heard, but I haven't had any trouble with my 2080ti. My script which I've been using and improving on/off over the past few years does it this way.
  • This time for real
    2 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 15 Jul 2021
    Fair, I've been using VFIO for those troublesome titles myself. Making a Win10 VM and passing it my GPU for fully accelerated gameplay and so crisply tuned that I can't even tell it's a VM. I even made a script to make it easy for myself day in and out.
  • Um, my single passthrough guide... ye...
    2 projects | /r/VFIO | 3 Apr 2021
    I'm not sure if its what you have in mind, but I currently call qemu directly with my vfio script. I run it from the terminal and my screen goes black and then shows the Windows boot process and login screen. Once I shut down Windows, my display manager welcomes me with a login screen again.
  • How to setup a VM netowrk so that the VM can access my local network and it can be accessed from within the local network?
    2 projects | /r/VFIO | 20 Jan 2021
    All of this is how I do it for VFIO gaming in my automatic vfio management script which at least tries to clean up after itself when the VM exits.
  • Valve Revises Steam's December 2020 Linux Marketshare To 0.74%
    2 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 3 Jan 2021
    I suppose its a bit of an edge case but the games I want to play are already available on this side of the fence leaving me in a position where everything has worked out pretty damn smoothly. But for the rare title that I'm desperate to play but doesn't work in Linux I've written myself a little vfio script in case I ever really need to run some software with my GPU passed through. Granted more aggressive anti-cheats still won't play nice without some more serious under the hood modification of the host kernel and qemu binary, it works for just about everything. But I only need to fire up that VM like once every few months.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing seabios and vfio you can also consider the following projects:

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

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

gpu-passthrough-tutorial

WOA-Drivers - Windows Drivers for Qualcomm Snapdragon platforms

LEDs-single-gpu-passthrough - Single GPU passthrough guide 单显卡直通教程资源

MobilePassThrough - Make GPU passthrough on notebooks easy and accessible!

virt-installs - libvirt scripts for various operating systems (KVM instead of QEMU)

gamescope - SteamOS session compositing window manager [Moved to: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope]

zephyr - Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.

Single-GPU-Passthrough

Sunshine - Self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight.

gamescope - SteamOS session compositing window manager