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This community has been made to discuss all things related to VFIO and gaming on virtual machines in general.

VFIO stands for Virtual Function I/O. VFIO is a device driver that is used to assign devices to virtual machines. One of the most common uses of vfio is setting up a virtual machine with passthrough to a dedicated GPU. This enables near-bare-metal gaming performance in a Windows VM, offering a great alternative to dual-booting for those that can't play a game with proton on Linux.

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We don't endorse or allow discussion or development of cheats, if you cheat in a videogame you are a failure. That's it.

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We are here on this community to help others setup their VFIO virtual machines, and to talk about account bans and possible patches to play certain games that restrict VM's, the patches allow anti cheats to run correctly under a VM, but certain game companies don't allow it and actively ban.

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IOMMU help with dual gpu's and /usr/local/bin/vfio-pci-override.sh permissoins (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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Intel Begins Sorting Out SR-IOV Support For The Xe Kernel Graphics Driver (www.phoronix.com)
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Let's get each other up to speed on VM XML's (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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So, I got into vfio a few years back when I switched to Linux, just when proton was starting to become a bit more relevant because of the upcoming Valve gaming handheld.

Nowadays many people have ditched their windows virtual machines to play games, because many games we want to play already work. But.. Sadly there's still some titles that are very strict on anti-cheat.

Then comes the reasoning of this post. It has been long since I've last looked into vfio tweaks because I left reddit shortly after getting interested on vfio.

TLDR: Please share the xml tweaks that you have applied to your gaming vm's to improve anti cheat compatibility, I will be thankful and hopefully we will improve each others setups.

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[Tinythread] List of resources that are useful (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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The tinythread

→PCI passthrough via OVMF

→Qemu passthrough scripts for Single GPU passthrough

If you want to contribute resources comment below!