Remote Gaming and Video editing with Proxmox GPU passthrough

Are you a PC enthusiast wanting to play around with virtualization and have you just recently upgraded to a 3000 series RTX card and don't know what to do with your 2000 series well I have a project for you.

I am going to assume you have a Proxmox Host with an extra GPU setup.

Once you pass the GPU through to a VM the host will not have access to the GPU anymore. This is why I recommend adding a second GPU to your host. Also, the GPU cannot be shared across guests.

Changes to Proxmox Server

SSH into your Proxmox Server and edit Grub

Update the "GRUB_CMDLIN_LINUX_DEFAULT" line. By default, it will be set to quiet.\

Intel CPU

For Intel CPUs add "intel_iommu=on", for example:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet intel_iommu=on"

Save changes and update grub:

update-grub

Reboot Proxmox Host

Edit Modules

add to /etc/modules

vfio vfio_iommu_type1 vfio_pci vfio_virqfd

On your Windows 10 VM you will want to make sure Remote Desktop is turned on. You may lose VNC access after you pass the GPU though.

Edit virtual machine's config file

cpu: host,hidden=1,flags=+pcid

from Proxmox add PCI device.

Block drivers from the host machine

edit /etc/modprobe.d/pve-blacklist.conf

block these drivers from being loaded

blacklist nvidiafb blacklist nvidia blacklist radeon blacklist nouveau

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