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#1 2022-05-17 11:29:06

gtludwig
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Registered: 2022-01-27
Posts: 2

Arch newbie and gpu passthrough

Hi all,

This is my very first post in this forum.

Starting with Slackware in '05, I have been using linux on and off. Lately my distro of choice was LinuxMint mainly because it suited all my needs off the shelf and, being based on Ubuntu, was stable enough and with loads of documentation.

I think it's time to use Arch as my dailly driver.

My current system is a Lenovo Ideapad Creator Edition 16" QHD (2560x1600), Ryzen 7 5800H with 16GiB DDR4 RAM (soldered...), 1 TiB NVMe PCI 4.0, with a hybrid GPU. While, I can't say for certain what is the exact GPU, I think it is the AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000). The laptop also has a discrete GeForce RTX 3050 4GiB DDR6.

I have been looking into GPU passthrough and am quite fond of that idea.

I know there are a lot of youtube videos and tutorials on how to pass through a GPU out there, but I was considering installing Arch and having two options for the bootloade - one with the RTX 3050 passed through to a QEMU/KVM Windows VM (and not have it accessible in Arch) and one with the RTX 3050 accessible in Arch.

Is this feasible?

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