Setting up VFIO on Bazzite
I have a Lenovo Legion 5 laptop with a Ryzen 4600h (with integrated graphics), GTX 1660 Ti and 16gb of ram. I want to setup a Windows vm for some Windows only things that aren't related to gaming, such as a Windows C++ development environment. I've enabled virtualization and enabled VFIO drivers, but I still got a few questions.
1. Can I rollback stuff in case something breaks?
2. Is it a good idea to use integrated graphics for the vm?
3. Is there any way to make it so the system unbinds gpus from vfio when I don't want to use them? Like if I bind integrated or dedicated graphics to vfio when I want to use the vm, then I stop using the vm, can I unbind them for host use?
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you don't need vfio for using windows desktop
#2 is likely not possible
I don't want to dualboot
Vms are just easier to manage
you can use a VM without passing thru a GPU
I'm aware, but it's excruciatingly slow
sb sent me a video guide to make windows more bearable w/o GPU passthru, one sec
SysGuides
YouTube
How To PROPERLY Install Windows 11 on KVM (2024)
If you want to run Microsoft Windows 11 smoothly on the KVM hypervisor, you must take some additional steps.
VIDEO CHAPTERS:
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:50 Enable XML editing
00:02:06 Start the Virtual Machine Manager wizard
00:03:41 Configure Chipset and Firmware
00:04:11 Enable Hyper-V Enlightenments
00:05:34 Enable CPU Host-Passthrough
00:06:03 Con...
window dragging is just laggy on qemu (not so much on virtualbox) but rest is usable
mouse cursor is smooth after installing guest additions
I'll take a look. I still might try gpu passthru
How do I install the VirtIO Windows drivers?
Nvm figured it out