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Why We’re Still Recommending the GT 710 For Passthrough Hosts
The GT 710 might seem like a strange card to choose for anything at first blush. It's a few years [...]
How to Apply the Error 43 Workaround
Why do your drivers fail to install? What is error 43, and why do you experience it? Do you need [...]
Explaining CSM, efifb=off, and Setting the Boot GPU Manually
Many factors can influence the success of GPU Passthrough. On some newer systems, notably low and mid-end Ryzen platforms, there's [...]
Arch Linux Broke OVMF Passthrough, Here’s How to Fix it
If you use Arch Linux and OVMF, you may have noticed that a recent update broke compatibility with your passthrough [...]
CPU Pinning Benchmarks
Everyone wants to get the best performance out of their virtual machine. There is a lot of talk about CPU [...]
Fix for Threadripper PCI Passthrough Submitted to Linux Kernel
AMD's Threadripper platform has proven buggy and problematic for Passthrough VMs. Luckily, Geoffrey McRae, known by his username gnif, recently [...]
oVirt Installation Guide
The KVM-based hypervisor space is maturing into versatile ecosystem. For example, a lot of options exist as far as front-ends [...]
Meltdown Patch Performance — Benchmarks and Review
The computing community is full of concern for the Meltdown vulnerability. Page-Table Isolation is the name of the patch. Many [...]
Explainer – Why and When Modprobe and VFIO-PCI Is Needed
For quite some time now various guides on the internet have told us to use modprobe rules on most devices [...]
TPP Hardware Survey Results Now Available
This survey's results have been enlightening, and hopefully will help us better understand what parts of the space we [...]