I've been experimenting with VMs lately after finally getting my bridge network working. I've been running the flagship OS from the Redmond outfit (W11Pro) and have done most all the possible performance tweaks. One annoying issue is random audio pops and it seems vfio is a possible fix. This is a common audio symptom on Windows KVM guests so I'm in good company.
Discovered vfio is not a download, but compiled into the kernel and lsmod tells me is not there. I don't want to start customizing the kernel if possible.
My audio originally had pulse enabled and had some conflicts last summer so I went to pipewire. Don't recall the details. But a recent test install of MX 23 XFCE on the same bare metal has fewer audio packages installed than my main daily driver install does. Mention this because the audio on a VM guest is no better than the host audio. My host audio sounds fine, but not an audio buff either.
So what's the easiest my to get vfio for testing?
Discovered vfio is not a download, but compiled into the kernel and lsmod tells me is not there. I don't want to start customizing the kernel if possible.
My audio originally had pulse enabled and had some conflicts last summer so I went to pipewire. Don't recall the details. But a recent test install of MX 23 XFCE on the same bare metal has fewer audio packages installed than my main daily driver install does. Mention this because the audio on a VM guest is no better than the host audio. My host audio sounds fine, but not an audio buff either.
So what's the easiest my to get vfio for testing?
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Root privileges required. ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 840 Series size: 232.89 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 6B0Q scheme: MBR ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Crucial model: CT480BX500SSD1 size: 447.13 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 054 scheme: MBR ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 type: USB model: USB DISK 3.2 size: 232.89 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: PMAP scheme: MBR SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. 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Statistics: Posted by skallal — Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:45 pm