Elfi, known bug enjoyer @elfi@pixie.town

Backing up and reformatting my sister's old laptop that she gave to me after my workhorse of four years started failing at a hardware level. What should I do with it?

@Stellar holy osha violations, batman

I've got an appointment (now moved to a phone call) in a couple hours but I just wanna rest because I'm achey.

*flutters and cleans antennae* z.z sleepy moth.

@netkitty /ctcp sound mothsqueak.wav

@Nine Ooh, thanks for the heads up c: No reservations about grabbing the demo then.

oooooh I am so hype <3 There are so few games with fairies playing a major role these days...

@ben bupy

We're here, we're queer, our joint pain is moderate to severe

@f0x No problem! :D I think the biggest thing to watch out for is that the system can't be truly headless, so you'll have to start the hypervisor with the boot GPU, then pass it off to a guest. The arch wiki has advice on that at least so you should be good. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF#Passing_the_boot_GPU_to_the_guest

@f0x AMD CPUs pretty much universally have the virtualization functionality required by kvm, so that's no problem; I dunno how well AMD graphics cards play with vfio-pci's power management but it should work just fine if the card supports D3 hot sleep.

Software-wise, I haven't mucked about with virt-manager much beyond what I needed to get things running, but it should be possible to adjust CPU parameters by adding hooks to it.

@f0x Okay, so I did some sleuthing, the X570GT manual does mention that the firmware does have IOMMU support so you're good there :D

Had an idea about why my bus I/O is bottlenecking with my GPU but it didn't pan out--lspci is reporting all 16 lanes being used so the IGP isn't taking away from that. Nothing for it then, I guess

@f0x Yeee, saw the link, I'm checking it over now--though I got distracted by an idea that suddenly hit me about my own issues