[vfio-users] More questions

[ALG Bass]

Oh, and another thing I forgot to ask, if anyone knows:
Can you make more than one virtual hard drive for the Windows guest? Like
one on an SSD and one on the HDD?


On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Blank Field <ihatethisfield at gmail.com>
wrote:

> When using VNC, the p-t'd GPU may remain unconnected. But you still need
> too install VNC server on it(or use qemu's built-in one), so i'd plug both
> host and guest gpus to the screens, no matter if it's a single screen or
> not.
>
> You can p-t individual USB devices into the VM, it's super easy when using
> virt-manager.
> On Sep 6, 2015 12:59 AM, "ALG Bass" <olorin12 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thnx.
>> Using this configuration (one monitor, VNC for guest), would you plug
>> both video card outputs into the monitor?
>> And can you isolate certain USB ports on your motherboard for use on the
>> guest, in case I want to use a set of USB headphones?
>>
>> I appreciate all the help.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Blank Field <ihatethisfield at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Afair - no. But we got reports about Fury X lacking UEFI support on some
>>> vendors, then there is still a possibility that the 3xx series may not have
>>> it too.
>>> Don't worry much about it, though: you might either not need UEFI at
>>> all(the VGA way) or you will be able to use the ROM from another vendor's
>>> GPU which has the GOP for UEFI to work.
>>> Not a big issue anyway. I know a workaround if you may stumble in that
>>> problem.
>>> On Sep 6, 2015 12:49 AM, "ALG Bass" <olorin12 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Has the R9 380 been reported to have UEFI problems?
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Blank Field <ihatethisfield at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Answer to all your questions is yes. VNC is the most used way to do
>>>>> that kind of thing, aw covered that in his blog.
>>>>> The problem i see - R9 380 may have UEFI problems and reset problems.
>>>>> On Sep 5, 2015 11:08 PM, "ALG Bass" <olorin12 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a few more questions.
>>>>>> First off, this is the hardware for the computer I'm going to build
>>>>>> next month:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> AMD FX 8350
>>>>>> ASUS M5A99FX R2.0 motherboard
>>>>>> 16 gb Kingston HyperX Fury RAM (1866 ghz)
>>>>>> MSI GTX 750 ti Twin Frozr (It's the card I have in my current PC -
>>>>>> going to use it as host gpu)
>>>>>> MSI R9 380 4G Gaming (guest gpu)
>>>>>> Antec 750W power supply
>>>>>> various other irrelevant hardware
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I looked through the lists of compatible and working hardware, and it
>>>>>> all looks good to me. Anyone notice any foreseeable problems?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a monitor that has DVI and HDMI inputs, with no speakers or
>>>>>> audio outputs. I have external speakers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I watched this video:
>>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi1LdFkRzIs
>>>>>> and he's got his Windows guest running in a window on his only
>>>>>> monitor, on the Linux desktop. How does he do that? Is he running a VNC? Is
>>>>>> it difficult to set up?
>>>>>> Also, if I was able to do that, would I be able to get audio working
>>>>>> on both the guest and host through one set of speakers?
>>>>>> And if I couldn't do that, would I be able to use one of those USB
>>>>>> sound cards and pass it through for guest audio?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>
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