News
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tutorials
ZFS Configuration Part 2: ZVols, LZ4, ARC, and ZILs Explained
In our last article, we touched upon configuration and basic usage of ZFS. We showed ZFS's utility including snapshots, clones, [...]
ZFS Configuration on Linux – Setup and Basics
Can you think of a time where you forgot to make a backup of a file/folder, and accidentally corrupted or [...]
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 [...]