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I had a similar setup about a year back.

Running a Ubuntu Host with KVM, passing through an NVIDIA 970 to a Windows host. Yea...the GPU performance was fast, but everything else was so slow compared to running native. I think my biggest issue was with disk R/W, especially when memory pressure went up from the VM the system bogged down to a halt. After that, my biggest problems were with the fact that after the Windows host turned off, the GPU was stuck in the weird state where you can't reset it ( I know its a feature™ from Nvidia) and the Keyboard / Mouse would flake since I would attach the whole USB root to the VM as well.

In the end just decided to install back Windows and not have to deal with it.



QEMU recently got multi-threaded I/O. It used to be single threaded and that caused a lot of performance issues.


By recently do you mean 2 to 3 years ago with a simple toggle?

Say hello to distributions not providing latest releases.




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