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In Praise of QEMU
I've been using VFIO and maintaining a guide for a few years, then I've realized that VFIO kinda works, but it's not a reliable technolog, and I switched to dual boot.
There are very significant pain points, specifically:
1. if one reserves the video card for VFIO, it won't have any power management; this means that it will run hot while doing nothing; in order to work this around:
1a. first one has to battle with X, which has an option not-to-take-over-a-card-but-it-takes-it-over-nonetheless
1b. then one can give exclusive access to the graphic card driver, which then can be switched out/in when starting/stopping the VM; this unfortunately works, but not reliably
2. the points before apply to nvidia; AMD is worse, as it hasn't supported soft GPU reset until very recently (I think it was added on 5.19 or so)
2a. this means that one starts the VM, then stops it, and most of the times the card will hang
2b. there resize BAR functionality is not supported by VFIO (at least, last year it wasn't), which meant, one had to lose performance by virtualizing it
The problem is that all the points below are not in control of the user; the problems happen at driver level (if there is no reset support, one can't add it out of thin air).
Point 1 has been what lead me to abandon VFIO. It's fantastic, but finding that my card was running hot while doing nothing was really a showstopper; and the alternative of the card having a most-of-the-time-malfunctiong driver was not appealing, either.
Big shame! I loved VFIO :)
* https://github.com/64kramsystem/vga-passthrough
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Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a Window with Native
I mantain a guide for setting up VFIO (https://github.com/saveriomiroddi/vga-passthrough), which I frequently use.
My conclusion is: for machines that are compatible with it, VFIO works very well. The technology itself is stable, so working on photoshop/game development etc. (from a technological perspective, there's no distinction between the two tasks) is not distinguishable from working on native.
I had VFIO on 4 machines I think, and one had problems which I couldn't solve, while the others worked well.
When used with QEMU, it requires some system settings and QEMU flags etc., but it's straightforward.
To put it in another way: if one wants to use VFIO seriously, it's best using hardware known to work well, rather trying to cram VFIO on a not very compatible ones.
And also: one needs to be pratical. An USB soundcard solves countless hours of attempts to use the host's Pulseaudio system (meh).
maruos
- My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things your modern iPhone still can't do
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Switching to PinePhone for a noob
It seems it is possible to connect a docking bar to the PinePhone but I cannot find what happens next? Is it possible to show on a screen what is displayed on my phone or is it dual screen or can I choose? I love the concepts behind maruOs but I think the project is dead.
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Available Today: Windows Dev Kit 2023 a.k.a. Project Volterra
>> So what exactly are “consumers” clamoring for that are not currently being delivered?
Until other choices are available, people tend to accept the default or keep on doing what was done in the past.
There is a segment of consumers that would like choices beyond Apple and Google mobile operating systems:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2019/jul/04/c...
https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/smartphones-5-alternativ...
https://www.pcmag.com/picks/break-away-from-android-ios-7-fr...
Personally, I would like to see more "convergence" devices that let the little computer I carry around with me be anything I want it to be: a programmable general purpose computer, a streaming media server, or whatever else I want.
There are some projects that offer such functionality, but most require expert knowledge to setup or are not very widely-adopted or not very mature:
https://maruos.com/
https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/
Walled gardens are not where innovation happens because the gardeners uproot whatever does not meet their vision.
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How can I use my old Android phone as a basic computer?
Depending on what the model is, you could try Maru https://maruos.com/
- maru - Your phone is your PC
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Are any Android ROMs focused on Android's desktop mode?
I just found MaruOS. It appears to be exactly what I was looking for. They are a little small apparently. They support only Nexus and Pixel phones and one Samsung's device. Hopefully they'll have a bright future.
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Use phone as desktop computer when linked to a monitor
So someone in this subreddit told me about Maru OS and that really got me dreaming about using my phone as a desktop computer when connected to a monitor. The Astro Slide with its dual boot capabilities and its two USB-C ports would be ideal for that I think.
- Python and Linux
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Looking for a way to stream from Stremio (or other streaming solution) to hotel TVs while travelling: Looking at Chromecast/streaming sticks or some sort of Raspberry Pi setup. Any idea is appreciated.
My next phone will definitely be supported by https://maruos.com/ :)
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Smart Phone as Dumb Terminal
MaruOS was a project that tried this for a bunch of phones.
https://maruos.com
What are some alternatives?
vgpu_unlock - Unlock vGPU functionality for consumer grade GPUs.
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debian-10-buster-pogoplug-v4 - Debian 10(buster) for Pogoplug v4
SkyScan - Automatically photograph planes that fly by!
matrix.to - A simple stateless privacy-protecting URL redirecting service for Matrix
skyscan - Location and velocity information system for the game Starbase
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Simple-Ubuntu-Setup-For-Gaming - Simple Ubuntu Setup for Gaming
containers - Simple containers using Linux user namespaces — see also https://github.com/arachsys/ucontain