So Wendell made a tutorial on how to do GPU Passthrough on a Skylake machine and how to do it on a Ryzen machine. My notebook still has an old Ivy-Bridge i7-3632QM. Now can I just follow the instructions on the Skylake video or are there any differences? Is it even possible?
My GPU is a 2GB AMD Radeon HD 7670M btw.. well, besides the Intel® HD Graphics 4000.
It works with some. But your CPU does not support VT-d. So no, you can't with this configuration.
On notebooks it's NOT possible.
AFAIK there are no notebook mainboards out there which support VT-d even if the CPU does.
Then there's also the problem of how the GPU's are hardwired on the PCB in these laptops.
Thanks for the responses. Well, that really sucks. I was so stoked for this technology.
@catsay What makes you think that there are no notebooks that support vt-d? I find that kinda hard to believe. I mean why would Intel even bother advertising that feature for their mobile CPUs then?
For Vendors to sell you the 'Business Class' Laptops. It's all Market Placement. Ex: A Dell Inspiron 15R with a Mobile Haswell cpu for $600 / A similar Dell Latitude 15 (5540) for $1,200 . . .
Well it was a general statement, they are rather rare, and hard to find. And even when they do technically do work, it often doesn't work due a few to constraints placed on mobile platforms.
There ARE such notebooks with the required chipsets but it's not something you'd find as someone asking us this question.
And even after you've gotten yourself a supported laptop with such a chipset it's fraught with troubles surrounding the IGPU and Discrete GPU passthrough setup due to either the Muxed or Muxless framebuffer setup in these systems.
So generally those experimenting with passthrough stick to desktop systems for this since even there it can sometimes be an issue to get working properly.
I'm not trying to discourage you, you certainly can go ahead and try this, but I'm just telling you that it's not very practical or easy and the results may be disappointing.