<div dir="ltr">
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">I am
gonna download Tera again and see whats up. After patching qemu I was
able to pvp in The Gridiron and CS. After a few a days I came to the
conclusion that I had about 80-85% of native on my GTX970. Around
Highwatch things are always bad with or without virtualization.  Tera
was completely unplayable without patching in my case.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">Looking at your xml
nothing pops out except that you are not using vfio with networking.
Tera is a very network intensive.</p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">Looking at the
amount of hugepages you can plausibly afford to bump a little more
RAM to Windows/Tera for testing purposes. 6meg might be a bit tight.
What kind of fps are you getting with and without virtualization? <br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">------<br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"> 
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><a href="http://virtualkvm.com">virtualkvm.com</a> 
</p>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Okky Hendriansyah <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:okky@nostratech.com" target="_blank">okky@nostratech.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Sorry, it should be kernel 4.1.12-lts. :)<br><br>Best regards,<div>Okky Hendriansyah</div></div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On Nov 2, 2015, at 21:16, Okky Hendriansyah <<a href="mailto:okky@nostratech.com" target="_blank">okky@nostratech.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>I think the best benchmark would be the in-game ones. Since I cannot try Tera (region restricted), what are the other games that you play? Hopefully I can try to benchmark that on my VM and start from there. You can also try the Unigiene Valley benchmark.</div><div><br></div><div>My host has an ASRock Z87 Extreme6 with Intel Core i7-4770, patched my kernel with ACS Override patch, currently at kernel 4.1.2-lts (patched from ABS PKGBUILD). I do not isolate any cores on the host and give all the cores the VM (exposed as 8 vcpus with topology 1 socket, 4 cores, each core 2 threads)<br><br>Best regards,<div>Okky Hendriansyah</div></div><div><br>On Nov 2, 2015, at 19:54, Eddie Yen <<a href="mailto:missile0407@gmail.com" target="_blank">missile0407@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">For now the latest driver is 358.50, and my guest using latest driver wo any problem.<div>But I'm using the method that AW talking about, so maybe give it a try?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-11-02 20:47 GMT+08:00 Georgios Kourachanis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geo.kourachanis@gmail.com" target="_blank">geo.kourachanis@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
  <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
    <div>It's the same thing, either by adding
      them with qemuarguments, or with the wrapper.<br>
      <br>
      The thing is to use the hyper-v functions. That's what the hyper-v
      vendor-id patch has given to us. The ability of hidding the
      hyper-v functions from nvidia GPUs so that we can use them!<br>
      <br>
      Also, I've tried with a null name for the vendor-id, I got the
      same performance.<br>
      <br>
      The nvidia drivers I'm currently using are 358.50<br>
      <br>
      Moreover, could you suggest me a nice software to test the VM's
      performance in general? I don't really like passmark.<div><div><br>
      <br>
      <br>
      <br>
      On 02/11/2015 02:11 μμ, Eddie Yen wrote:<br>
    </div></div></div><div><div>
    <blockquote type="cite">
      <div dir="ltr">OK, but I still suggest that remove Hyper-V
        function tags in your XML.
        <div>Because we don't know about what new tricks inside the
          driver that NVIDIA wants to "surprise" us.</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>For me, my GTX980 works well by using upon edits. But I'm
          using 4820K which didn't need ACS patch and wo intel graphic.</div>
        <div>So I'm not sure it may cause by patch or sth.</div>
      </div>
      <div class="gmail_extra"><br>
        <div class="gmail_quote">2015-11-02 20:04 GMT+08:00 Georgios
          Kourachanis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geo.kourachanis@gmail.com" target="_blank">geo.kourachanis@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br>
          <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
            <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
              <div>Hello Eddie,<br>
                <br>
                Thanks for answering, though:<br>
                <br>
                What you suggest me to do, I've already done it with
                this way:<br>
                <br>
                <font color="#000000"><span><tt>/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64.hv</tt><tt>:</tt><tt><br>
                    </tt><tt>#!/bin/sh</tt><tt><br>
                    </tt><tt>exec /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 `echo
                      "\$@" | \</tt><tt><br>
                    </tt><tt>sed
                      's|hv_time|hv_time,hv_vendor_id=GoobyPLS|g'</tt></span><tt><br>
                    <br>
                    <br>
                    and by changing the emulator qemu to this line:<br>
                    <br>
                    <</tt></font><font color="#000000"><tt>emulator>/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64.hv</emulator></tt><tt><br>
                  </tt></font><br>
                I'm just giving the ID "GoobyPLS" to the vendor. I'll
                try without a vendor name to see if it changes anything.<br>
                <br>
                Also, I'm using the qemu git version "r41983.g3a958f5"
                so it already contains the patch that helps us use the
                lines above.
                <div>
                  <div><br>
                    <br>
                    <br>
                    <br>
                    <br>
                    On 02/11/2015 03:53 πμ, Eddie Yen wrote:<br>
                  </div>
                </div>
              </div>
              <div>
                <div>
                  <blockquote type="cite">
                    <div dir="ltr">According from AW's blog:
                      <div>"<span style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:18.4799995422363px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> For

                          this step we again need to run </span><span>virsh
                          edit</span><span style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:18.4799995422363px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> on

                          the VM.  Within the</span><span><features></span><span style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:18.4799995422363px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> section,

                          remove everything between the </span><span><hyperv></span><span style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:18.4799995422363px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> tags,

                          including the tags themselves.0</span>"</div>
                      <div>and</div>
                      <div>"<span style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:18.4799995422363px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Additionally,

                          within the </span><span><clock></span><span style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:18.4799995422363px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> tag,

                          find the timer named </span><span>hypervclock</span><span style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:18.4799995422363px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">,
                          remove the line containing this tag
                          completely.  Save and exit the edit session.</span>"</div>
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <div>I found that these still exist in your XML
                        file, so try to do this:</div>
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <div>1. Remove these tags.</div>
                      <div>2. Re-compile QEMU and re-install it with
                        this patch</div>
                      <div><a href="http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg121742.html" target="_blank">http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg121742.html</a><br>
                      </div>
                      <div>3. Add these tags between </devices>
                        and </domain></div>
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <div><qemu:commandline></div>
                      <div>   <qemu:arg value='-cpu'/></div>
                      <div>   <qemu:arg
value='host,hv_time,hv_relaxed,hv_vapic,hv_spinlocks=0x1fff,kvm=off,hv)vendor_id='/><br>
                      </div>
                      <div></qemu:commandline></div>
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <div>I'm using GTX980, too. Before that, I got
                        poor 3D performance in Windows 10, after this
                        patch and edition, I got performance back.</div>
                    </div>
                    <div class="gmail_extra"><br>
                      <div class="gmail_quote">2015-11-02 1:43 GMT+08:00
                        Georgios Kourachanis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geo.kourachanis@gmail.com" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:geo.kourachanis@gmail.com" target="_blank">geo.kourachanis@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br>
                        <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
                          <div>
                            <div>
                              <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <tt>Hello
                                </tt><tt>all,</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>I had been using Xen </tt><tt>with
                                  some AMD GPUs </tt><tt>for almost 2
                                  years till about June 2015, when I
                                  then found out that KVM and libvirt
                                  could do the same stuff I was
                                  interested in with nvidia GPUs, too. I
                                  needed the CUDA cores so I did change
                                  to an ASUS GTX 980 Strix. But
                                  unfortunatelly, I don't get any good
                                  performance output from it. On native
                                  windows 7/10 installation it's a beast
                                  though.</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>I also have an AMD R7 250 which
                                  works great with KVM. But let's not
                                  mess with it.</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>Let me get to the point:</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>I have no problems as for the
                                  installation of Windows or OVMF or
                                  passing-through or anything else. The
                                  only problem is the GTX980's
                                  performance.</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>The performance had a
                                  significant boost when I used the
                                  latest qemu branch with the hyper-v
                                  trick, but still, not getting what
                                  many people seem to claim in this
                                  mailing list "almost-native" (even
                                  with nvidia GPUs).</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>Here is my system's specs:</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>Archlinux with 4.1.6-1-vfio
                                  (with the ACS patch ALONE)</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>Intel Core i7</tt><tt> 3770 ( I
                                  use the igpu for the archlinux)</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>24GiB RAM</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>ASUS GTX 980 Strix</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>Sapphire R7 250</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt>
                                <hr size="2" width="100%"><tt>lspci
                                  (only pass-through'd stuff):</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>01:00.0 VGA compatible
                                  controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM204
                                  [GeForce GTX 980] (rev a1)</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>        Subsystem: ASUSTeK
                                  Computer Inc. Device 8518</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>        Kernel driver in use:
                                  vfio-pci</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>        Kernel modules: nouveau</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA
                                  Corporation GM204 High Definition
                                  Audio Controller (rev a1)</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>        Subsystem: ASUSTeK
                                  Computer Inc. Device 8518</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>        Kernel driver in use:
                                  vfio-pci</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>        Kernel modules:
                                  snd_hda_intel</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>02:00.0 VGA compatible
                                  controller: Advanced Micro Devices,
                                  Inc. [AMD/ATI] Oland PRO [Radeon R7
                                  240/340]</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>        Subsystem: PC Partner
                                  Limited / Sapphire Technology Device
                                  e266</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>        Kernel modules: radeon</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>02:00.1 Audio device: Advanced
                                  Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cape
                                  Verde/Pitcairn HDMI Audio [Radeon HD
                                  7700/7800 Series]</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>        Subsystem: PC Partner
                                  Limited / Sapphire Technology Device
                                  aab0</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>        Kernel driver in use:
                                  snd_hda_intel</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>        Kernel modules:
                                  snd_hda_intel</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>08:00.0 USB controller: ASMedia
                                  Technology Inc. ASM1042 SuperSpeed USB
                                  Host Controller</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>        Subsystem: ASRock
                                  Incorporation Motherboard</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>        Kernel driver in use:
                                  vfio-pci</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>        Kernel modules:
                                  xhci_pci</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt>
                                <hr size="2" width="100%"><tt>booting
                                  lines:</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>linux   
                                  /boot/vmlinuz-linux-vfio
                                  root=UUID=XXXX rw intel_iommu=on
                                  pcie_acs_override=downstream
                                  isolcpus=2-3,6-7 nohz_full=2-3,6-7</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>initrd    /boot/intel-ucode.img
                                  /boot/initramfs-linux-vfio.img</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt>
                                <hr size="2" width="100%"><tt>/etc/fstab:</tt><code><br>
                                  <br>
                                  hugetlbfs /hugepages hugetlbfs
                                  defaults 0 0</code><tt><br>
                                </tt>
                                <hr size="2" width="100%"><tt>/etc/sysctl.d/40-hugepage.conf:</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>vm.nr_hugepages = 8000</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt>
                                <hr size="2" width="100%"><tt>/etc/modules-load.d/vfio.conf:</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>kvm</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>kvm-intel</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>vfio</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>vfio-pci</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>vfio_iommu_type1</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>vfio_virqfd</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt>
                                <hr size="2" width="100%"><tt>/etc/modprobe.d/kvm.conf:</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>options kvm ignore_msrs=1</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt>
                                <hr size="2" width="100%"><tt>/etc/modprobe.d/kvm-intel.conf:</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>options kvm-intel nested=1</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt>
                                <hr size="2" width="100%"><tt>/etc/modprobe.d/vfio_iommu_type1.conf:</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>options vfio_iommu_type1
                                  allow_unsafe_interrupts=0</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt>
                                <hr size="2" width="100%"><tt>/etc/modprobe.d/vfio-pci.conf:</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>options vfio-pci
                                  ids=10de:13c0,10de:0fbb,1002:6613,1002:aab0,1b21:1042</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt>
                                <hr size="2" width="100%"><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>And the virsh xml:</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt><domain type='kvm'></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt> 
                                  <name>windows_10</name></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt> 
                                  <uuid>63045df8-c782-4cfd-abc7-a3598826ae83</uuid></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>  <memory
                                  unit='KiB'>6553600</memory></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>  <currentMemory
                                  unit='KiB'>6553600</currentMemory></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>  <memoryBacking></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    <hugepages/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>  </memoryBacking></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>  <vcpu
                                  placement='static'>4</vcpu></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>  <cputune></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    <vcpupin vcpu='0'
                                  cpuset='2'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    <vcpupin vcpu='1'
                                  cpuset='3'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    <vcpupin vcpu='2'
                                  cpuset='6'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    <vcpupin vcpu='3'
                                  cpuset='7'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>  </cputune></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>  <os></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    <type arch='x86_64'
                                  machine='pc-i440fx-2.4'>hvm</type></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    <loader readonly='yes'
type='pflash'>/usr/local/share/edk2.git/ovmf-x64/OVMF_CODE-pure-efi.fd</loader></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>   
<nvram>/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/nvram/windows_nvidia_VARS.fd</nvram></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>  </os></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>  <features></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    <acpi/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    <apic/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    <pae/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    <hyperv></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>      <relaxed
                                  state='on'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>      <vapic state='on'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>      <spinlocks state='on'
                                  retries='8191'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    </hyperv></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    <kvm></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>      <hidden
                                  state='on'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    </kvm></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    <vmport state='off'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>  </features></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>  <cpu
                                  mode='host-passthrough'></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    <topology sockets='1'
                                  cores='4' threads='1'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>  </cpu></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>  <clock
                                  offset='localtime'></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    <timer name='rtc'
                                  tickpolicy='catchup'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    <timer name='pit'
                                  tickpolicy='delay'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    <timer name='hpet'
                                  present='no'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    <timer
                                  name='hypervclock' present='yes'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>  </clock></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt> 
                                  <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt> 
                                  <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt> 
                                  <on_crash>restart</on_crash></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>  <pm></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    <suspend-to-mem
                                  enabled='no'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    <suspend-to-disk
                                  enabled='no'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>  </pm></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>  <devices></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>   
                                  <emulator>/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64.hv</emulator></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    <disk type='block'
                                  device='disk'></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>      <driver name='qemu'
                                  type='raw' cache='none'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>      <source
                                  dev='/dev/mapper/vg_ssd-lv_kvm_NVIDIA'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>      <target dev='sda'
                                  bus='scsi'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>      <boot order='1'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>      <address type='drive'
                                  controller='0' bus='0' target='0'
                                  unit='0'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    </disk></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    <disk type='block'
                                  device='disk'></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>      <driver name='qemu'
                                  type='raw' cache='none'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>      <source
                                  dev='/dev/mapper/vg_raid5-lv_xen_ntfs_files'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>      <target dev='sdb'
                                  bus='scsi'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>      <address type='drive'
                                  controller='0' bus='0' target='0'
                                  unit='1'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    </disk></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    <controller type='usb'
                                  index='0'></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>      <address type='pci'
                                  domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01'
                                  function='0x2'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    </controller></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    <controller type='pci'
                                  index='0' model='pci-root'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    <controller type='scsi'
                                  index='0' model='virtio-scsi'></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>      <address type='pci'
                                  domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06'
                                  function='0x0'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    </controller></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    <interface
                                  type='bridge'></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>      <mac
                                  address='52:54:00:e9:85:8f'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>      <source
                                  bridge='xenbr0'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>      <model
                                  type='e1000'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>      <address type='pci'
                                  domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03'
                                  function='0x0'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    </interface></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    <hostdev
                                  mode='subsystem' type='pci'
                                  managed='yes'></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>      <source></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>        <address
                                  domain='0x0000' bus='0x01' slot='0x00'
                                  function='0x0'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>      </source></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>      <address type='pci'
                                  domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x0a'
                                  function='0x0' multifunction='on'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    </hostdev></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    <hostdev
                                  mode='subsystem' type='pci'
                                  managed='yes'></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>      <source></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>        <address
                                  domain='0x0000' bus='0x01' slot='0x00'
                                  function='0x1'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>      </source></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>      <address type='pci'
                                  domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x0a'
                                  function='0x1'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    </hostdev></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    <hostdev
                                  mode='subsystem' type='pci'
                                  managed='yes'></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>      <source></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>        <address
                                  domain='0x0000' bus='0x08' slot='0x00'
                                  function='0x0'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>      </source></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>      <address type='pci'
                                  domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x08'
                                  function='0x0'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    </hostdev></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    <memballoon
                                  model='virtio'></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>      <address type='pci'
                                  domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05'
                                  function='0x0'/></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>    </memballoon></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>  </devices></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt></domain></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt>
                                <hr size="2" width="100%"><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64.hv</tt><tt>:</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>#!/bin/sh</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>exec
                                  /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 `echo
                                  "\$@" | \</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>sed
                                  's|hv_time|hv_time,hv_vendor_id=GoobyPLS|g'</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>And some notes:</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>1) Using "</tt><tt><topology
                                  sockets='1' cores='4' threads='1'/></tt><tt>"
                                  instead o</tt><tt>f </tt><tt>"</tt><tt><topology
                                  sockets='1' cores='</tt><tt>2</tt><tt>'
                                  threads='</tt><tt>2</tt><tt>'/></tt><tt>"
                                  provided about 2% boost in GPU
                                  performance. No change in RAM or CPU
                                  tests. I've tested with the passmark</tt><tt>.</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>2) I tried using the
                                  emulatorpin method Alex says on a mail
                                  here on </tt><tt>vfio-users</tt><tt>,
                                  but I didn't notice any changed in GPU
                                  performance. I didn't test it on the
                                  CPU side though.</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>3) The main problem of the
                                  performance lack is that a specific
                                  game that I've been playing isn't
                                  quite playable. That game has been
                                  mentioned before here on the list,
                                  it's Tera (european version
                                  (gameforge), although american version</tt><tt>(enmasse)



                                  has exactly the same performance).</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>4) Every othe</tt><tt>r game I
                                  managed to play is quite playable,
                                  though I haven't tested them to see if
                                  they run on native speeds.</tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>I'd really want some help on
                                  this matter, I really want to make my
                                  server run this VM with the nvidia
                                  GPU. I hate dual booting Windows </tt><tt>>_></tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt><br>
                                </tt><tt>Thank</tt><tt>s!</tt><tt><br>
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