On Thursday, March 5, 2020 at 6:04:59 PM UTC+1, john redneck wrote: > > I am owner twicked Acer Aspire. (100% Qubes OS compatibility). > So, that laptop has 32gb ram ddr4, i7-6500, 520 intel hd + nvidia 950m, > also 1TB m2 sata samsung EVO and intel iommu support. > I can remove m2 wifi module card and replace it with m2 EGPU (for example, > nvidia 1060 GTX PCI-E card). > Is it possible to gpu passthrouth dedicated eGPU card to debian/fedora > AppVM or HVM? > Anyone has success or Qubes bad with gpu passthrouth on laptops? >
it is or will be possible, but I'd highly recommend against using nvidia cards for this, as they're much more likely to refuse to work when passed through (because nvidia blocks this in drivers). Aside from that, it won't be easy to do generally. May also depend on which iommu group the m.2 connector currently connected to the wifi module is in. More importantly, it will probably be highly bandwidth constrained because intel motherboards will route m.2 through the chipset, which has a pcie3 x4 connection with the CPU (while connecting all of the peripherals, so usb, m.2, sata ports..). All in all, if you want to do this, I'd either try a desktop (with a dedicated pcie3 x8 connector available for the GPU), or a ryzen 4000 series laptop, after checking out how the usb or other ports connect to the CPU. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/9b9048b2-d0d0-45d9-9738-d43a990a2175%40googlegroups.com.
