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

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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] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

@Ptsf @shapis I've primarily gamed from a virtual machine and have NEVER EVER been banned, so I don't think so.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Depends on the game. Apex, Riot, ubisoft, and EA all ban vm players. A list of other companies do as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

@Ptsf Haven't played any of those. Anyway, there is a way to edit your xml to fake the machine id.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

machine id isn't necessarily the important part. anticheat and vm detection check a lot of different heuristics incl hard to defend against things like timing attacks on particular cpu instructions. there's a handful of open source versions if you're curious

[–] [email protected] 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

@brian To be honest, until and unless it becomes a problem for me, not really. KVM has the host CPU executing the VM instructions so timing on CPU instructions should product identical results. I have the VM setup as CPU and GPU pass through.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

even with cpu passthrough some things are still emulated. you can run a vm detector and see for yourself what tests fail.

it may not affect your games but others should still be careful since it is a real issue, and people do get banned for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

@brian Ok, just for kicks tell me where I can get this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I've never used it but this one seems like the most complete currently, and it'll tell you which tests fail.