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From: Bronek Kozicki <brok@spamcop.net>
Subject: version recommendation for VGA passthrough in Windows 7guest, on
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Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 21:03:06 +0000
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I plan to setup a headless KVM hypervisor (i.e. pci-stub assigned to 
GPU) and guest Windows 7 with vga passthrough to AMD GPU as the only 
screen (i.e. -vga none -device vfio-pci,*). I have SuperMicro 
motherboard and a pair of Xeons E5-26*V2 and plenty of RAM for this, and 
am not afraid of running bleeding edge version, if it helps to make such 
setup perform well. As for distribution, I consider starting with Arch 
(thanks to this guide https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=162768 
) but Fedora 20 or other options are obviously open.

I am looking for recommendation where to get most the fitting package or 
sources for the task, for libvirt and qemu (and what else?). My starting 
point will be likely kernel 3.13.4 , libvirt 1.2.1 and qemu 1.7.0 . 
Should I look into git repositories for development versions instead, or 
any specific patches? Where from? TIA!


B.