## PLAIN QEMU WITHOUT LIBVIRT ### WORK IN PROGRESS ### ONLY USE THIS IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING I don't use VMs so I didn't test it extensively. \ Only tested it for if it actually passes GPU, and it seems to do the job. \ You need to figure out missing pieces on your own. Passthrough can be done with plain qemu without using libvirt. \ The general idea of using plain qemu is to avoid managing libvirt configurations and rather use a single portable script. Stuffs taken from YuriAlek's [script](https://gitlab.com/YuriAlek/vfio/-/blob/master/scripts/windows-basic.sh). Create disk image with QEMU. ```sh qemu-img create -f raw Disk.img 256G ``` The script should be run as superuser. \ Run with nohup to make the script run even after terminal closes. ```sh doas nohup ./passthrough.sh > ~/qemu.log 2>&1 ``` Use ``lspci -nn`` command to get device ids. ``` 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] [10de:1c03] (rev a1) 01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 High Definition Audio Controller [10de:10f1] (rev a1) ``` ```sh #!/bin/sh ULIMIT=$(ulimit -a | grep "max locked memory" | awk '{print $6}') # Replace 4 with the amount of RAM you supply to the VM (in GB) ULIMIT_TARGET=$((4 * 1048576 + 100000)) # VIDEOID="10de 1c03" VIDEOBUSID="0000:01:00.0" AUDIOID="10de 10f1" AUDIOBUSID="0000:01:00.1" ulimit -l $ULIMIT_TARGET # Should be run before VM starts function init_vm() { # Stop display manager (if any exists) # rc-service xdm stop # systemctl stop display-manager pkill -9 emacs sleep 1 # Unbind EFI-framebuffer echo efi-framebuffer.0 > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/efi-framebuffer/unbind # Unload GPU modules modprobe -r nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia snd_hda_intel # modprobe -r amdgpu # Load vfio modules modprobe vfio-pci # Bind drivers to vfio echo $VIDEOID > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/vfio-pci/new_id echo $VIDEOBUSID > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/driver/unbind echo $VIDEOBUSID > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/vfio-pci/bind echo $VIDEOID > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/vfio-pci/remove_id echo $AUDIOID > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/vfio-pci/new_id echo $AUDIOBUSID > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.1/driver/unbind echo $AUDIOBUSID > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/vfio-pci/bind echo $AUDIOID > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/vfio-pci/remove_id } # Start VM function start_vm() { qemu-system-x86_64 \ -runas qaidvoid \ -nodefaults \ -enable-kvm \ -machine kernel_irqchip=on \ -cpu host,kvm=off,hv_vendor_id=nil \ -m 4G \ -name "Guix" \ -smp cores=2 \ -drive file=/home/qaidvoid/VM/Disk.img,if=virtio,format=raw \ -drive file=/home/qaidvoid/Downloads/guix-system-install-1.2.0.x86_64-linux.iso,media=cdrom \ -serial none \ -net nic \ -net user \ -vga none \ -nographic \ -device vfio-pci,host=01:00.0,x-vga=on,multifunction=on \ -device vfio-pci,host=01:00.1 \ -object input-linux,id=mouse1,evdev=/dev/input/by-id/usb-PixArt_HP_USB_Optical_Mouse-event-mouse \ -object input-linux,id=kbd1,evdev=/dev/input/by-id/usb-Chicony_USB_Keyboard-event-kbd,grab_all=on,repeat=on \ -device virtio-keyboard \ -device virtio-mouse } # Should be run on VM shutdown function stop_vm() { # Unload VFIO modules modprobe -r vfio-pci ulimit -l $ULIMIT # Load GPU modules modprobe nvidia_drm modprobe nvidia_modeset modprobe nvidia_uvm modprobe nvidia # modprobe amdgpu # Bind EFI framebuffer to host echo "efi-framebuffer.0" > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/efi-framebuffer/bind # Restart Display Manager - I don't have display manager to test # rc-service xdm start # systemctl start display-manager # Couldn't get display back on host.. # Rebooting seems to be the best option reboot } init_vm start_vm stop_vm ```