I'm aware of the wiki and the other site. Neither of them review this issue at the .moment. The person rewriting the wiki doesnt have experience w the two identical gpu issue so im hoping to solve this and provide the solution that worked.
Sending from my phone. Please pardon the mistakes. On Thu, Apr 14, 2016, 7:47 AM thibaut noah <[email protected]> wrote: > There is not just the forum, you also have the wiki (i admit it is a bit > outdated too but someone in the mailing list is working on rewriting it) : > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF > > There is also a guy who made a video and a huge post on a forum : > > http://www.se7ensins.com/forums/threads/how-to-setup-a-gaming-virtual-machine-with-gpu-passthrough-qemu-kvm-libvirt-and-vfio.1371980/ > > Modules are indeed in mkinit, read the wiki ;) > > 2016-04-14 5:00 GMT+02:00 Garland Key <[email protected]>: > >> Hey there, >> >> 1. I followed the instructions listed on this blog ( >> http://vfio.blogspot.com) and got my current machine to run a windows 10 >> vm with pci passthrough perfectly. I've now switched back to Arch (my >> default OS) and want to try to adapt these instructions now that I know it >> will work. >> >> 2. I have 2 identical GPUs, so I have to follow the special instructions >> outlined in >> https://vfio.blogspot.com/2015/05/vfio-gpu-how-to-series-part-3-host.html. >> Again, this worked on Fedora, so to my knowledge it should work on Arch too. >> >> 3. Please do not refer me to the outdated Arch forums with 680+ posts >> that has now been closed. That thread should be deleted as it is unwieldy >> and useless. I have two Nvidia GTX 970s, but again, it worked on Fedora 23. >> I'm throwing this out there due to other advice that I have been given in >> the past. >> >> 4. Dracut isn't used in Arch but mkinitcpio is. You're asked to insert >> add_drivers+="vfio vfio_iommu_type1 vfio_pci vfio_virqfd" in: >> /etc/dracut.conf.d/local.conf. >> >> Should I instead add MODULES="vfio vfio_iommu_type1 vfio_pci vfio_virqfd" >> to mkinitcpio.conf? >> >> 5. Farther down, I'm supposed to insert >> install_items+="/sbin/vfio-pci-override-vga.sh /usr/bin/find >> /usr/bin/dirname" in: /etc/dracut.conf.d/local.conf. >> >> Should I instead add install_items+="/sbin/vfio-pci-override-vga.sh >> /usr/bin/find /usr/bin/dirname" to /etc/modprobe.d/vfio.conf? >> >> Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated. >> >> Best, >> Garland Key >> >> _______________________________________________ >> vfio-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/vfio-users >> >> >
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