This guide is based on my own experience and hacks on running virtual machines. You already may have knowledge on this topic, so I will try to keep things simple and get directly to the point.
Our object is just one: have a full working virtualization platform with QEMU using KVM as hypervisor to run Linux, MacOS, Windows OS and any other operational system inside virtual machines with great performance, even for gaming!
- Virtualization solution with Fedora as hypervisor.
- Easy guide if you already have KVM / QEMU knowledge.
- Virtualization that just works.
- Up to date guide that explores the features of modern VFIO software.
- Best practices for maximum performance in VMs.
- Isolated and secure host system to just run VMs.
- Linux, Windows and MacOS virtualization.
- Single and Multi GPU passthrough support (very easy to activate/deactivate).
- PCI passthrough ON DEMAND without need to pre-allocate devices on VFIO (or blacklist drivers on the OS).
- Audio and USB device passthrough.
- Live USB passthrough on supported VMs.
- CPU isolation and pinning support.
- Bridge network to keep every VMs available on the local network.
- Nested virtualization for development environments.
- VM creation and management from CLI.
- Support for BOOT interface via CLI (to select the startup disk for example).
- More!
Just to provide additional context, here is my current hardware configuration:
- Motherboard: ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming 4
- Memory: Corsair Vengeance 32GB 2666MHz DDR4
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5700X
- GPU: AMD RX 6700XT XFX QICK 319 12GB
- SSD: Crucial SSD P2 2TB NVMe PCIe M.2
This guide also was previously tested with the following hardware:
- Motherboard: Gigabyte B450 Aorus Pro Wifi
- Memory: Corsair Vengeance 16GB 2133MHz DDR4
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 1700X
- GPU: AMD RX 5500XT Gigabyte Gaming OC 4G
- GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 8GB
Follow the guides inside the Docs folder or use the links below for a specific topic: