[vfio-users] How to choose a compatible motherboard?

[Nick Sukharev]

When I was building a virtualized PC for gaming, I tried to avoid
everything that has some notes of issues associated with it. ASRock indeed
has a reputation of fewer issues and I went for ASRock MB (asrock x99
extreme4). It also does not have the integrated graphics that might require
additional patching. I also decided to stay away from NVidia first time in
my life. After all you have an entire driver team there trying to prevent
you from running their cards on a virtual machine, you just have to honor
their wishes and use the competitor's product :) So, I ended up with ASRock
and AMD R7 and R9 2xx series cards that work pretty well. For host graphics
I got myself USB 2.0 Display Link that is a bit slow and a bit tricky to
get working but it doesn't have any issues associated with integrated intel
graphics. It also does not take a PCIE slot.

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Corey Larson <corey at eatrunco.de> wrote:

> I am in a position where I can do a new build with this technology in
> mind. How do I go about picking a motherboard that will have the best
> compatibility to do vfio?
>
> Currently, my plan is to use this board:
> https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/H170-PRO-GAMING/specifications/. I
> plan to add an additional GPU (NVidia GTX 960) for the guest, and use
> the integrated Intel graphics to drive Linux. I also plan to make use of
> OVMF to avoid the Intel VGA arbitration patch.
>
> I appreciate any information you can share with me to help guide me!
> --
> Corey Larson
> corey at eatrunco.de
>
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