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Is there an easy way of having a vm with gpu pass through to play windows games ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Basically the title. I’ve only ever seen huge 20 page guides on how to make it work. Is there an easy way?

Specifically on Debian or Arch with a laptop with two gpus (zephyrus g14)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If there's a game that doesn't work on Linux because of anti or something it probably won't work in a vm either so dual booting would probably be the way to go to avoid that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

@variants @shapis Not true, a root-kit will break it in wine because wine is just translating windows sys calls into Linux sys calls, but a vm is actually running a windows kernel, then the root kit anti-cheat works fine. With GPU pass through, I have found no games that work under Windows won't also work within the VM.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

At least MiHoyo's anti cheat detects and blocks VirtualBox VMs as well as Waydroid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

@lord_ryvan Interesting, haven't played that game so no experience with it. VirtualBox does do some things a bit differently, I was not able to get flyff to run it well, it runs but at about 3fps, where as it runs normally in kvm/qemu.