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by tbr1 1794 days ago
It's quite easy to get it set up once you have a VM with GPU passthrough running (for which there are plenty of guides available online) -- just a double-click installation of a service on the Windows side, compiling a cmake project on the Linux side, and (optionally, for some extra performance) compiling a Linux kernel module.

After that it kind of just works, and continues working. I use it to play games and run Office apps, and have not had it break on me in a ~year of use. (Disclaimer: I occasionally contribute to the project now, but remember being impressed at how easy it was to get going when I first tried it out. Getting the VM working at all was the hardest part of the endeavor, but only took a few hours.)

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Just to tack on, I set up windows with GPU pass-through and looking glass on my new laptop over the course of about 3 hours of on-and-off work using the excellent guide over at https://asus-linux.org/wiki/vfio-guide/