This will be a guide on advanced tuning for a VFIO gaming VM. If you’re starting from scratch, read through the Arch Wiki guide on PCI passtrhough via OVMF. It is a great starting point and covers all of the basics. I’d recommend using libvirt instead of straight QEMU. Host hardware configuration Before we begin,
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Tested on Ubuntu 16.04. Here are the commands, life story and explanation is below: echo foreign-architecture amd64 | tee /etc/dpkg/dpkgcfgd/multiarch dpkg --add-architecture amd64 apt update apt install linux-image-4.15.0-50:amd64 apt install gcc-multilib apt upgrade (Reboot, make sure you boot on to the new kernel), and then set sources.list to only have amd64 (Put [ arch=amd64 ]
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Despite not really knowing what is so “unbreakable” about Oracle’s UEK, I find myself strangely fascinated by it. So I have taken it upon myself to figure how to compile and boot other flavor of Linux on it, which is simultaneously easier and harder than one might expect. As I write this article, I am
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A few quick notes before that actual post: I posted this originally in early 2018 on a different website, but no longer use that site. So I decided that it would make sense to re-upload here with a few edits. There is something called Xen and something called Xen Server. Xen is a virtualization platform
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You have probably noticed that network adapters in Linux now follow a naming convention of “enpXsY” or “wlpXsY” instead of “ethX” and “wlanX”. This is generally fine and doesn’t cause much issue. The one downside to the change is that Gentoo and Linux From Scratch VMs running on VMware will have ridiculous names like “eno16777728”.
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If you have the following error upon startup, do this to make the system bootable again. Failed to set MokListRT: Invalid Parameter Something has gone seriously wrong: import_mok_state() failed: Invalid Parameter
Installing open-vm-tools in Gentoo can lead to errors if the kernel is misconfigured. Here is how to fix that.