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I was pretty apprehensive about the concept, but hopeful enough to get a new mobo/CPU just to give it a shot. It does definitely seem to good to be true.

I went for it, and it actually ended being significantly easier and better performing than I expected. I did have to take a few days and learn a bit about qemu, but I'd expect that much.

I will say that older motherboard (perhaps some new ones too) might not have firmware that fully support what's being done here. It's hard to say which, but you can see what people have had success with if you search around (Asus z170a works for me).

This is a little light on details but is a good resource for the steps involved: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVM...