GTX 1060 for GPU pass through question

[fizzyquizzler]

so I am getting a new Graphics card for my system the GTX 1060, and I wanted to set it up for GPU pass through. however I have heard that GTX cards don't work in VMs. is this still a problem and if so is there a fix?

[SgtAwesomesauce]

Sorry I couldn't get to this earlier, I've been shirking my responsibilities.

As far as using a 1060 for passthrough, it will work just fine. There are some tricks you need to do to make the Nvidia drivers unable to detect that it's in a VM, but you'll definitely be able to do it.

Have a look at my passthrough guide series, here:

The Pragmatic Neckbeard 1: Intro

The Pragmatic Neckbeard's guide to Linux, KVM, ZFS and everything else in the world of Stallman and GNU. AKA: How to steal Wendell's beard and get away with it This is the first in a series of guides I plan to release on how to make the most out of your (admittedly overpowered) computer in a pragmatic way with Linux. In this first installation I'm going to simply discuss the requirements (physical, mental, temporal) and what you will get out of this in the end. The next article should be out within a week of this coming out. That's nice and all, but what the hell are we doing? Well, I'm so glad you asked. Essentially I'm switching to Linux but keeping Windows on the computer at the same time. The fact of the matter is that there are certain windows-only programs that I cannot live without. (Mass Effect and Skyrim, I'm lookin at you!) This means I'd either have to shut down my desktop and boot into windows every time I want to play a game, only to shut down and reboot into Linux to check my email, or, I just run a windows VM. "But Sarge, VM's can't play games!" Oh, billy, you're so naive. That was true in 2004. Today, Virtual Machines can do anything a physical machine can, with very few exceptions. We accomplish this with a technique called GPU Passthrough. Essentially, we're going to tell the host machine to not use the GPU and give it to the Virtual Machine. With a bit of black magic and trickery, we can make this work. I'm going to start this off by saying that I don't have a lot of money to spend on computers. This is the primary reason I'm not building some crazy powerful server capable of running the L1T forums on its own. Let's talk about the hardware I have at my disposal. CPU: i7-6700k (4.2GHz on air) GPU, Linux: R9 380 GPU, Windows: GTX 970 (I know this sounds backwards, but this is how it works best for me, also I wanted to show that it can be done) RAM: 16GB DDR4-2400 HDD: 4x4TB RAIDZ1, 2x128GB SSD 1 cache/zil, 1 os (btrf…

While it's all useful, the part that will answer your question would be part 4. There is a section that will explain exactly how to hide the hypervisor extensions from the VM.

[tkoham]

there are a few gotchas with nvidia cards, but nothing too bad.

[fizzyquizzler]

awesome, thanks. and no worry on the delay my car decided that the drivers side window shouldn't work, so my new GPU money this paycheck needed to be spent elsewhere. so next month will be new GPU month. but thanks for letting me know.

[SgtAwesomesauce]

Glad I could help. Sorry to hear about your car. :/