I use dual boot (many years) and I hate it, I would like to move to Linux completely without dual boot, and I found GPU passthrough and Looking Glass (I tested GPU passthrough and it worked on my hardware).
Okay, have you encountered the performance problems with your passthrough setup, without looking glass? Iām curious if itās a vm config problem.
I know itās not related to LG but warthunder and cities skylines both have native Linux releases that work well from my experience and Eve runs perfectly in wine. I checked around and it looks like you can play fallout 76 in wine too with lutris and dxvk
Okay, have you encountered the performance problems with your passthrough setup, without looking glass? Iām curious if itās a vm config problem.
No I didnāt encounter the performance problems without Looking Glass, but on other hand I only tried some games (I didnāt play it much).
For example this guy allocated all cores to VM too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww2xpxkhitk and played many games and made lot of tests and there was no performance hit, only around 2-5%.
I know itās not related to LG but warthunder and cities skylines both have native Linux releases that work well from my experience and Eve runs perfectly in wine. I checked around and it looks like you can play fallout 76 in wine too with lutris and dxvk
Thanks 
I didnāt know that.
Hereās the output for the segfault
https://pastebin.com/CezqGZb9
Let me know if you need anything else
Imagine if there was LG like custom PCI card for example with HDMI IN port, and some chip on it which just grabs frame from HDMI IN (from graphics card) into some shareable memory with CPU (for host), like dream
Itās called a āCapture Cardā, they exist. Please donāt take this thread off topic, this thread is for LG Triage, not general discussion. If you wish to discuss LG outside of help and support, please create a new thread on this forum. The community here is very welcome and open to discussing ideaās and concepts.
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Dumb tip for anyone else sitting with a black client window and no errors:
Maximise the client window!
(If this has been covered already, please delete this. Iāve embarrassed myself enough already!) 
This is a documented issue that is likely fixed by the patch in:
lol, thought it might be! But itās working now. Hopefully other noobs will find this.
So after posting to the wrong place before see Looking Glass client outputs purple screen for reference I have now downgraded my looking-glass-client using the AUR package rather than the git version and installed my nvidia drivers for my 970 but Iām still just getting a purple output on looking-glass-client in either mode but my second monitor displays correctly.
Oh looks like my ivshmem driver didnāt install in Windows properly so that could possible be the cause.
It certainly will be, the host canāt communicate with the client without it.
OK, so Iāve installed the ivshmem driver again by right clicking on the inf and installing and the ivshmem-test shows everything as passing now looking-glass-client is connecting in both Spice and non-spice mode but the output is just a black screen but the looking-glass-host does seem to show something is happening.
Am I running the host correctly as currently I am using an Admin rights cmd and running looking-glass-host.exe.-f which seems to be the only way I can get it to run but want to make sure this is correct.
Suddenly dawned on me when I was reading through for 1000 odd posts that someone said that AUR packages arenāt supported which made me think I wonder if the cilent and host had a version mismatch and low and behold that was the issue.
Now for the fun stuff letās see what the performance is like.
Yeah, some people have had luck with the AUR package but its definitely a YRMV.
@gnif has said numerous times that the only thing which is officially supported are the tagged releases from github. There are some few who are some kind alpha testers who help test his master builds but that is not recommended.
Downgrading to A11 works fine so the AUR just needs updating but in the mean time Iāll update the ArchWiki with the correct information so at least the next person to run into this will know what to do and saving asking the same question.
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One of the things weāre trying to change is making this documentation more obvious. As a new user, please check out my UX thread. I would like to hear your thoughts.
Well if you need any help with the documentation Iād be happy to help with that to give something back to the project.
I think a wiki style might be really useful here as it means users can easily share their solutions and it will always be up to date.
I have a few questions about looking glass. The before having touched it / looking for a gpu (probably) type of questions.
- I always thought it copies the vram to the other cards vram. But IĀ“ve read somewhere that it actually uses RAM. Depending on how that works out performance wise IĀ“d prefer that, since it would allow me to more easiely use a ānot so greatā card for the host and have all the vram of my guest card useable. Also is that configurable? Meaning if I had enough vram can I make it use the vram of the card instead of ram? Or is that only applicable when using an igpu (since it was gonna use RAM regardless).
- If I use an AMD card for the guest, I could also still use gsync with looking glass if my host card is an nvidia, right? Might come to that depending on how Navi turns out to be. Might also be better since they donĀ“t restrict virtualization as Nvidia do. So I wonĀ“t have to workaround artificial limitations NVIDIA put in place. Kinda s*cks to be softlocked into one brand by the monitor choice.
ItĀ“s still gonna take some time till I decide if I even wanna try that to begin with. IĀ“m like eventually-probably-maybe-kinda wanna do it type of decided.