The 380 had the reset bug as well, that's one reason I got the fury. I'd heard that the fury didn't suffer from this ailment.
Sorry, I didn't realize it was any other than the Fury line. I guess passthrough the 970 is your least bad option for now.
yep. I spent about 3 months working on the 380's issue. I might just throw a heatsink on my 3770 and stick the fury in there. Just need it for windows stuff anyways, not like it needs to be on 24/7.
Yes it can be done in Linux Mint but there might be some complication involve there been some people who had succès with Ubuntu and Mint is a fork of Ubuntu. You can give it a go but just be aware of some complication with it. You can go with Debian stretch and install the cinnamon DE instead of gnome 3.
Hope it helps
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I will just make a thread when my new computer is in sight...
I tried pinning it exactly as suggested and it shows up as 4 logical cores on win8 task manager and 4 cores, 4 threads on CPUZ.
Performance is still horrible even with this setup. If I add and pin all 8 cores to the VM, the performance becomes just acceptable. I am not sure what I am missing here. One step forward, two steps back...lol
Are you sure you have virtualization acceleration enabled in your BIOS/system?
Yep, it's enabled. It's listed as SVM on the BIOS.
I forgot to mention that I am using a non activated win8.1 at the moment. This was downloaded from MS site and is currently under the 90 days trial. I am not sure if maybe there is some sort of limitation with running a non activated win8 on VM?
@GrayBoltWolf So the need to use a secondary mouse and keyboard is only temporary? I'm going to be doing this on my laptop and would hate to have to use a secondary keyboard/mouse just to play games.
Also I'm kinda concerned because the 10 series nVidia laptops have the iGPU on the i7 turned off in BIOS and I can't find a way to re-enable it. Might have to call MSI and ask.
PCI passthrough doesn't work on laptops.
Hmm, so what options do I have to get off windows and get to playing games in a Linux machine on my device?
The device in question: https://www.amazon.com/MSI-GT62VR-Dominator-Pro-005-i7-6700HQ/dp/B01IO9YI4M/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1480692394&sr=8-2&keywords=msi%2Bgt62vr&th=1
You have to run Linux for games, either with bumblebee or using the Nvidia GPU full time.
Linux is just now getting good on the desktop, laptops still have a ways to go. Most of the blame for that lies with X11 imho, it is holding a lot of innovation back.
Well that's a bummer. I was really hoping to completely move away from MS with this new SSD coming in today.
Well running Windows in a VM isn't exactly getting completely away from MS is it? ;)
Well it is if I'm only using it for that purpose. If I have to dual boot it kinda defeats the purpose in my opinion.
For a laptop yes. For a desktop it works great.
Instead of that I did
apt remove --purge virt-manager qemu* libvirt*
When I reinstalled, virt-manager started as expected and did not require root as it should not. Of course libvirt is running as root, as expected.
Windows is installed but I didn't get lucky with my Fury. Windows recognizes it but after installing Crimson, I see Error Code 43 in Device Manager, not quite as expected but with the same end result, fail.
Since it was identified correctly and didn't always crash the host I tried a few old Crimson drivers after I tried the newest, but eventually I gave up and ordered an RX 480. Fingers crossed.
I applied the acs patch on 4.7.5 and on 4.8.12 as well. Both times, there were no errors, but when I execute
find /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/ -type l
the groups stay the same. I still got both graphic cards in group 1. When I try to start the windows vm, I get an error saying "group 1 is not viable, please ensure all devices within the iommu_group are bound to their vfio bus driver"
Any ideas?
Edit: Found it, booted the wrong kernel