[vfio-users] Checking for EFI and general questions

[Felix Mayr]

General things to add: if you get a new computer, don't bother with 
using your Geforce 210 (which you can't anyway if you're not using 
Haswell-E). And buy a motherboard which includes Displayport (=ready for 
4k), today buying a GPU for better 2D graphics (which most probably 
Linux will be + some moderate WebGL maybe) just isn't worth it anymore 
(watch out for the small, single slot cards with DP – they aren't there 
(for reasonable prices)) and if you upgrade your monitor one day it's 
nice if you still get 60Hz ;) [for Haswell (if you still buy that by 
christmas) the MSI B85M-G43 worked well for me, for Skylake I'd try to 
get the Fujitsu board with 2 Displayports :) (care because there will be 
not much enduser support)].
If you are reasonably experienced with the CLI-environment and your 
distribution, I think the vfio-blogspot tutorial is more or less 
step-by-step (if your board and gpu have no dealbreaking UEFI bugs), 
additionally I can recommend this guide: 
http://www.se7ensins.com/forums/threads/how-to-setup-a-gaming-virtual-machine-with-gpu-passthrough-qemu-kvm-libvirt-and-vfio.1371980/ 
[it deals with other things you want to setup like audio (if you browse 
the web/hear music with Linux) – basically you can use a) HDMI on 
monitor + its analog output, b) a USB soundcard (glitched with me) or 
the onboard audio with pci-passthrough  or c) a systemwide pulseaudio 
instance (connecting to your local instance is hard because kvm won't 
really read any config files)] or this one in the german debian forum: 
https://debianforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=155672 (Jens 
Zimmermann sounds too german ;)).