Single GPU Passthrough possible?

[ian]

Hi, instead of dual booting to access the GPU, is it possible to run a virtual machine that gets access to the single GPU instead of dom0? Or is there another way to do GPU passthrough with a single (but multi-core) GPU? Just wondering. Thanks.

[51lieal]

This is what qubes team still doing, read more Qubes Architecture Next Steps: The GUI Domain | Qubes OS (qubes-os.org), but don’t hope they’ll available soon.

[fiftyfourthparallel]

Not entirely sure, but the links in this comment might help:

List of programs that work with Qubes

If you really must use it, GPU passthrough has been achieved on Linux by some users and on Windows by others, but compromises your security. However, this might be worth it depending on your threat model. If I were you, I’d stick all 3D applications on a GPU-equipped offline machine and run Qubes somewhere else, having it handle all other tasks (including downloading, say, assets for Blender). I’d ferry information to and from the PCs using USB (or SSH if you can secure that). (Note I am not an…