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AMD Ryzen VFIO GPU pass-through – gaming VM on new hardware

2020-01-23 by valo

This is kind of a follow up to my USB3 card pass-though post some years ago … as I finally bough some new hardware and want to share my configuration for VFIO GPU and USB pass-through to a Windows 10 VM. Host system is Debian 10 with libvirt. With my former Intel based PC i … Read more

Pass-through PCIe USB3 card to KVM guest

2019-10-042016-10-28 by valo

To get some usable input devices inside a Windows VM used mainly for gaming i bought a PCIe USB3 card that should be passed through to the guest. During the boot process the xhci_hcd (usb3) driver of the host system attaches to the card which makes the card unusable with qemu/kvm without unbinding it first. … Read more

OmniOS lipkg zone as debian package mirror

2019-10-052016-10-12 by valo

My private Debian package mirror was a Debian 8 virtual machine with the storage provided by an OmniOS fileserver and exported as a nfs share.
The goal is to move the whole mirror into a zone on the fileserver. The debian ftpsync mirror script is a bash script and should also run on OmniOS.