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gpu_accelerated_vm_with_kvm [08.12.2018 08:21] – [GPU Forwarding for KVM] Pascal Sutergpu_accelerated_vm_with_kvm [08.12.2018 08:27] – [using a vm with just the forwarded GPU] Pascal Suter
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 to start a vm without a emulated graphics card, use ''-nographic -vga none'' in your command line.  to start a vm without a emulated graphics card, use ''-nographic -vga none'' in your command line. 
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 + qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -k de-ch -name windows -drive format=raw,file=/dev/vms/dcv,if=virtio,format=raw,index=0 -m 9000 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0,mac=52:54:00:01:00:01 -netdev tap,id=net0 -cdrom Win10_1803_English_x64.iso -drive file=virtio-win.iso,media=cdrom,index=1 -monitor tcp:127.0.0.1:5801,server,nowait -boot once=d -cpu host,kvm=off -smp cpus=8,cores=8 -monitor vc -drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file=/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.fd -drive if=pflash,format=raw,file=/bulk/vm/OVMF_VARS.windows10.fd -rtc base=localtime -balloon none -serial none -parallel none -M q35 -vga none -nographic -device vfio-pci,host=05:00.0
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 +==== stability issues ====
 +i go to the point where whenever i booted my DCV VM the HOST system rebooted or rather reset! Finally I found a workaround that fixed this issue: I bought a little dummy hdmi display emulator which is basically an HDMI plug that you plug into the output of the graphics card and it emulates a display. Since i had no adapters readily available for my K1200 i switched to a GTX 1050Ti which i had in my other pc. So far it works the same as the K1200 did. DCV now starts and is usable same as RGS was before. However i Still have the issue, where after about a day or so, when i log back into my VM i get horizontal black lines across my remote desktop which move around as i re-size the window but stay stady "above" the various windows of Windows. This happend with RGS as well as with DCV and even when I use windows RDP! Usually the vm also becomes increasingly unresponsive when i try to re-connect after having this issue. 
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 +I have now updated my Bios hosts bios to the latest version (it was actually quite outdated already) and have also enabled Coherency support for the IOMMU stuff in the bios. I usually don't like changing two parameters at once to sovle an issue, but for now lets just try it as it takes at least a day to reproduce the problem.. i can then roll back the bios setting and see if it was the update alone that resolved the issue should my current trials be successful. 
  
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