It's that there's no fucking kvm display technology in existence that is an unmanagable problem for me!

Are potentially manageable problems for me. It's not even that sometimes the VM just doesn't want to launch with GVT-G enabled and I have to disable it or restart my host if I wanna get into the VM.Īll those. It's not that sometimes launching the VM breaks the sound in my PC (host and guest, doesn't matter, just breaks all sound until I turn it off), I mean I'm sure that's a perfectly troubleshootable problem for me (not.

And of course, perhaps most importantly, I want this all to happen without breaking my host system.īut I just can't have that, even if theoretically it should not be difficult, I just spent a good day or so setting up a qemu VM with windows on it and GVT-G enabled, theoretically this should meet all my performance needs, every last one of them, I can set the desired number of cpu threads made available to the vm, I can have near native (igpu) level graphics performance at least in theory, and I mean at it's core qemu is good at creating high performance VMs right?īecause the resulting VM is high performance, it meets my performance needs at least as far as VM capabilities are concerned, but it's not the VM capabilities that in the end make it so I can't have what I want.Īnd it's not really that I had to spend most of this time scratching my head over a weird issue where I can not have GVT-G, DMA-BUF and SPICE enabled at the same time, I gotta disable one if I want to use the other two or the VM crashes on boot and this took me like a good half a day to figure out. I don't ask that much of such VMs, I need to be able to run photoshop (I know this is too much for virtualbox and last I checked for vmware player too, but not for qemu!) and I need to be able to run some very light games (think rpg maker and visual novel kind of light), I want all this done at 60fps, 24bpc (32bpc if u count alpha channel) and without crippling amounts of tearing. I'm just so frustrated over my ventures into windows VMs on linux. Man I am just venting here and it has almost nothing to do with the article but I just don't know anyone I can vent to about this that would actually understand what I'm talking about and I need to.

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