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silenceesk

Is PCI passthrough possible with Solus? And If yes , Is there any guide for it? I searched but no result...

Justin

Yes. There was a guide on the old forums but they're no longer available. Most generic guides out there should be adaptable to Solus. Hopefully, soon there'll be helper applications to do this. I've seen the start of some mid last year to do pass-through to VMs.

endumiuz

I am currently writing a guide for PCI passthrough on Solus. I'll publish it later this week.

lukejackson

really annoying that the guides are gone. im clueless and cant simply adapt a guide.

endumiuz
looking forward to your guide, im about to kick solus for antergos beacuse i cant find reliable info on gpu passthrough on solus.

tgrowl

endumiuz I would love to see this. Thanks for being willing to post!

Justin

lukejackson Good luck!

downhill

lukejackson "really annoying that the guides are gone. im clueless..." Start keeping your tips and tricks in a Cherrytree database. Cherrytree is available in the Solus repos. More info about the app at the developer's site:

https://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/

WetGeek

lukejackson Good luck with Antergos. Too many other distros out there that work fine. I no longer remember what problems I had, just that I figured life's too short to mess with it.

Justin

downhill Guides should be added into the Help Center to be properly preserved.

[deleted]

I recall the old guide had outdated info, though

lukejackson

that's even more reason for a new guide. i would love one, i tried multiple times with arch/fedora and the old solus guides.. i check @endumiuz's profile daily 😅

endumiuz

I've been busy with work so I haven't had time to finish the guide, but here you have something to start with:

Isolating the GPU

Download vfio-bind.sh from https://github.com/endumiuz/vfio-bind

Run vfio-bind.sh:

sudo eopkg install dracut
chmod +x vfio-bind.sh
sudo ./vfio-bind.sh

Reboot

Verify that the GPU and its audio controller are now using vfio-pci:

lspci -nnk

Install Virtual Machine Manager

sudo eopkg install qemu virt-manager ovmf
sudo systemctl enable libvirtd
sudo gpasswd -a $USERNAME kvm
sudo gpasswd -a $USERNAME libvirt

Reboot

The rest of the guide can be found here. It's not done yet so don't go following it blindly.

If my english sucks you can tell me. I'm not a native speaker. 😛

lukejackson

WetGeek i ended up going with manjaro, managed to setup passthrough there.
but thanks to endumiuz i get to try it on Solus 🙂
thank you endumiuz for you work, im downloading vfio-bind atm.
endumiuz you should make a seperate post for this guide, so it gets the visibility it deserves

Justin

endumiuz Attempted:

justin  ~  sudo ./vfio-bind.sh 
Select the target device:
1) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] (rev a1)
Device: 1
IOMMU isn't enabled in the Kernel, would you like to enable it?
1) Yes
2) No
Option: Yes
Invalid option
Option: 1
touch: cannot touch '/etc/kernel/cmdline.d/20_vfio.conf': No such file or directory
./vfio-bind.sh: line 58: /etc/kernel/cmdline.d/20_vfio.conf: No such file or directory
Done
You must reboot to apply the changes

Looks like it's because /etc/kernel/cmdline.d doesn't exist, may want to add in a check and if not there, create. Also may want to open issues tracker on Github so we can track it there instead of here.

Justin

lukejackson If we can get a decent guide together I'll get this pushed to the Help Center.

endumiuz

Justin Fixed and issue tracker opened. Sorry it toke this long, stuff happened and I've been super busy.

Justin

endumiuz All good!