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Takeaways utilising VFIO in a KVM virtual guest

July 8, 2019 15:13 / Leave a Comment / Magnus Strahlert

Having a seamless experience with a host OS running a KVM-guest that gets full access to a GPU by PCI passthrough does come with some hurdles. These are some takeaways from setting it all up. VFIO is a modern way of passing through PCI-devices from the host to a virtual machine. IOMMU must be enabled … Read More →

Posted in: KVM, Linux / Tagged: grub, kvm, linux, vfio, virtio

Fixing a broken grub2

August 15, 2011 17:09 / Leave a Comment / Magnus Strahlert

For some reason every upgrade of Ubuntu destroys the working grub installation. This is how to fix it again. First boot through rescue CD. Then to find out which partition your linux root system lies on do the following fdisk -l Mount it assuming /dev/sda3 is your root system mount /dev/sda3 /mnt Then set up … Read More →

Posted in: Linux / Tagged: grub, linux

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