Beginner VFIO Tutorial - Part 0: Demo and Hardware

This video begins a beginner friendly tutorial series. Everything need to start playing video games in a Windows virtual machine on Linux. Timestamps # 0:00 What is VFIO and why this tutorial? 0:48 Intro 1:14 Disclaimers 2:15 Demo 4:17 Hardware Requirements and Considerations 4:26 CPU 7:41 Motherboard / MOBO / System Board 8:34 What is IOMMU? What is "good iommu group isolation?" 9:47 Gaming GPU 11:30 USB Drive 11:43 RAM 12:19 Storage - HDD or SSD? 13:05 A special necessity for VFIO: PCI-USB Card 13:33 Cooler, power supply, peripherals, and case 13:46 Conclusion and Next Steps My Videos # Beginner VFIO Tutorial - Part 1:    • Beginner VFIO Tutorial - Part 1: Installin...   My VFIO Benchmarks Video Series:    • Are Gaming VMs Fast? VFIO Performance   My portal-style video game:    • i built a portal-style puzzle game in 48 h...   Virtual Disk - M.2 Performance:    • VFIO: What type of virtual disk is fastest...   Links # Check your hardware ## List of IOMMU Supporting CPU and MOBO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... List of Board IOMMU Groups:   / boardiommu   List of Example Hardware: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PCI_... List of Example Hardware: https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/VTd_... List of Recommended Hardware: https://passthroughpo.st/vfio-increme... Search the subreddit for user posts:   / vfio   Search levelonetechs forum for user posts: https://forum.level1techs.com/c/softw... Other resources ## VFIO Subreddit Wiki:   / index   Alex Williamson's Blog: http://vfio.blogspot.com/ Alex Williamson's Text Tutorial: http://vfio.blogspot.com/2015/05/vfio... CORRECTIONS # 0:34 I didn't mention in the intro/disclaimers: There are some games and anti-cheat services that are hostile to their users and block you, if they detect that you're playing in a VM. Unfortunately there is a large overlap between these games and the ones that don't run on Linux (thanks YT user BreakPoint!) Checkout the comment below by SolTheCleric for more up-to-date info on the AMD reset bug in newer cards and a recommendation for a good Host GPU Let me know in the comments if you notice something! you can find my other creative endeavors at # http://blandmanstudios.com http://blandmanstudios.itch.io   / blandmanstudios     / blandmanstudios   or if you want to buy me a coffee # https://ko-fi.com/blandmanstudios   / blandmanstudios