[vfio-users] More questions

[David Sutton]

Hello there,

On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 2:01 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
>
> So the system I am using kvm on right now is an AMD FX 8350 and an ASUS
Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 motherboard with 16Gb of ram. Host GPU is an AMD
HD7750, guest GPU is a GTX 780.


> 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?
>

If you look at the title of the window in that video, you'll see that it's
a VNC window (Using TigerVNC) VNC isn't difficult to set up, although I
personally am using the multiple inputs of my monitors (along with a KVM
for keyboard and mouse sharing) to separate the two.


> 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?
>
> In my case, since I liked to keep them separate, I'm using a pair of USB
headphones, which have the soundcard built into them; I have a USB 3.0 PCIe
card passed through to the guest which allows me to add USB devices as and
when I like.


> Thanks!
>
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