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I'm using it in conjunction with PCI passthrough instead of dual boot. I've been running Windows 10 for more than a year now and played all kinds of AAA titles successfully. The performance-loss seems minimal. Recently I managed to get a second GPU and spin up another VM, so now me and my partner can play on the same machine, heaving each a keyboard, mouse and screen.


Do you have any hints on how to set up a similar system? Links, guides, gotchas, whatnot? I've seen someone mention this setup before (perhaps it was you?) and I'm sure I'm not the only one interested in running something similar.


I have written a "guide" for myself to replicate my setup. It is by no means perfect, but maybe it helps: https://gitlab.com/snippets/1678554


You might be able to find some info here https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/.


This seems very helpful, yes. Thanks a bunch for posting!


I posted about this on my blog here: https://1125.io/#/2019-01-21_21:58_Playing_within_a_Windows_...

Also I recently discovered some very in-depth blog posts here: https://heiko-sieger.info/iommu-groups-what-you-need-to-cons...

Another whole website about this topic (no joke): https://passthroughpo.st/


An overall good introduction/guide is: https://github.com/saveriomiroddi/vga-passthrough.

The most complete guide is probably the Arch Linux one: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVM....


I do the same, I used to run my VMs off of ZFS with spinning disks, but that was too slow at times, so my last upgrade has been giving the VMs their own SSDs and that has worked out great, I then backup the VMs to ZFS and snapshot them.


I have a water-cooled i7 6700k and the rising fan speed was the first thing I heard as well. Normally this does not happen when browsing the web.


Still I think there's a difference in how deep the intrusion goes. I can just not use Google (except it's harder on stock Android phones), but I can definitely go without Facebook by just not using it. Having my own Operating System to spy on me makes me a victim whatever I do. I can't really escape from that.


It's hard for me not to use Google's products because they're good, it's hard for me not to use Facebook's because they managed to lock me in using social pressure.


Just use an operating system that doesn't track you? There are plenty out there.


They're sorted by highest delta, which makes it look so significant in the first moment.

Also, though one of golangs target was to get close to c-like performance, they never intended to be the "performance-killer" since the focus is also strong simplicity and productiveness.

More info: https://golang.org/doc/faq#Why_does_Go_perform_badly_on_benc...


Another angle where Rust is doing well is in peak RAM usage. Its memory usage is generally (although certainly not universally!) much lower in these examples.


Yeah, no doubt! As already written somewhere above, the GC is not cheap.


That's exactly what I thought looking at the screenshots and having to look it up from the source is pretty disappointing. Libui is great work and since it seems to be the biggest part of this project, it should be mentioned.


The caption of the last image says: "Visitors can tour the system, which cost $2 billion and was completed in 2006." I hope that's just a typo.


What part do you hope is a typo?


Tokyo has a GDP of $1.6 trillion per year. And they have a lot of expensive property they want to protect from flooding.


Quick lookup of other sources all state figures between US$2billion and US$3 billion


I initially read that as the tour costing $2 billion. Seems a bit steep!


Is it? How much have the recent floods experienced in the Americas cost?


What is honestly going on in this comment section? First guy is confused by a perfectly good caption saying that the facility cost $2 billion to build and was completed in 2006. And second guy said he somehow thought that meant that taking a tour costs $2 billion (which would be obviously expensive just for a tour). And you have somehow misinterpreted the comment about the tour to be saying that the facility is expensive.

Come on, guys. Read before you comment. Jesus.


I assume the second person was joking. I have no idea what the first person was concerned about, unfortunately.


Yeah I wouldn't want to pay $2 billion for a tour.


I don't know... The first 3 articles shown on a Google search for "gvfs" are based on that small world of GNOME.


Will it still be the case next? I'm not saying it is a good choice, but maybe they consider they will gain enough traction to surpass it in the results.


If that's the idea, that would make the choice of name directly malicious, rather than just an unfortunate oversight. I don't see how it would make qarioz's original point any less valid at all.


Which ends up being crappy for anyone on the gnome side googling for gvfs.


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