Windows 10 Gaming HVM Slow Disk I/O on M.2 SSD & Low Link Speed

I used qvm-create-windows-qube (linked above) to create it, if you run into an issue with hanging you can resolve it with this post

I also needed to do the 3.5G patch, there are a number of ways you can do it, you just need to try them until you get it to be able to boot with enough memory while your GPU is passed through (if it’s even an problem for you at all).

After that, I just booted it up in Qubes then went and installed the Nvidia driver, ran the steps below to disable the Qubes monitor and I had it working off of my gaming GPU. You will need to either attach your USBs to the VM (doesn’t work well for me) or do passthrough on a USB Controller or additional PCI card.

In order to disable the window in Qubes and just use your GPUs video out, you can use:

qvm-features your-vm-name gui ''
qvm-features your-vm-name gui-emulated 0
qvm-features your-vm-name video-model none

If you need to bring it back (OS doesn’t boot right or something)

qvm-features your-vm-name gui 1
qvm-features your-vm-name gui-emulated 1
qvm-features your-vm-name video-model --delete

Would love to do a writeup but I fumbled through the whole thing so I don’t have it outlined well at all

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