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by sm_ts 1797 days ago
(I haven't used LG, so these are general VFIO considerations).

I mantain a guide for setting up VFIO (https://github.com/saveriomiroddi/vga-passthrough), which I frequently use.

My conclusion is: for machines that are compatible with it, VFIO works very well. The technology itself is stable, so working on photoshop/game development etc. (from a technological perspective, there's no distinction between the two tasks) is not distinguishable from working on native.

I had VFIO on 4 machines I think, and one had problems which I couldn't solve, while the others worked well.

When used with QEMU, it requires some system settings and QEMU flags etc., so it's a bit annoying, but it's straightforward and documented process.

To put it in another way: if one wants to use VFIO seriously, it's best using hardware known to work well, rather trying to cram VFIO on a not very compatible system.

And also: one needs to be pratical. A USB soundcard solves countless hours of attempts to use the host's Pulseaudio system (meh).

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When gaming, as long as I don't have a lot of software running on the host, pipewire works great with pulse passthough, starts crackling if I run FF on the host, I guess something to do with nice levels