HI,
I've just tried this on a Dell 7566 laptop (Intel 530 bolted onto a Core i5 6300HQ and Nvidia 960M, 8gigs of RAM ), not much luck, but I hope to get it running with some help. I clicked through (op might have something wrong, unsure though) to read about how to get this to work with Optimus, all I get is a post about a bug report to QEMU?
viewtopic.php?f=231&t=212692&p=1300764#p1300634
Not sure what I was looking for here, I was assuming I would see the rendered output from the VM either in a window or fullscreen. Got neither of these expected results.
I had to mess with the name of the vm as it insisted it was already running from a cold boot. Anyway, first time I got it to run, the system locked up and required holding the power button, tried again and I get this,
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./windows10vm1.sh
W: /etc/qemu-ifup: no bridge for guest interface found
QEMU 2.5.0 monitor - type 'help' for more information
(qemu) qemu-system-x86_64: failed to get page size of file /run/hugepages/kvm: No such file or directory
Here's my sysctl.conf
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# Set hugetables / hugepages for KVM single guest using 8GB RAM
vm.nr_hugepages = 2500
kernel.shmmax = 5242880000
vm.hugetlb_shm_group = 0
8 gigs of RAM, I'm kinda clueless on how to work this out, I just went with what I thought made sense at the time.
And there's most likely mistakes with the script itself, don't ask about the VM name, because I don't know...
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#!/bin/bash
vmname="flergnerp"
if ps -A | grep -q $vmname; then
echo "$vmname is already running." &
exit 1
else
# use pulseaudio
export QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=pa
export QEMU_PA_SAMPLES=8192
export QEMU_AUDIO_TIMER_PERIOD=99
export QEMU_PA_SERVER=/run/user/1000/pulse/native
cp /usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_VARS.fd /tmp/my_vars.fd
qemu-system-x86_64 \
-name $vmname,process=$vmname \
-machine type=q35,accel=kvm \
-cpu host,kvm=off \
-smp 6,sockets=1,cores=3,threads=2 \
-enable-kvm \
-m 4G \
-mem-path /run/hugepages/kvm \
-mem-prealloc \
-balloon none \
-rtc clock=host,base=localtime \
-vga none \
-nographic \
-serial none \
-parallel none \
-soundhw hda \
-usb -usbdevice host:045e:076c -usbdevice host:045e:0750 \
-device vfio-pci,host=01:00.0 \
-drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file=/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.fd \
-drive if=pflash,format=raw,file=/tmp/my_vars.fd \
-boot order=dc \
-device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi \
-drive id=disk0,if=virtio,cache=none,format=raw,file=/media/mrme01win.img \
-drive file=/media/mrme01/win10.iso,id=isocd,format=raw,if=none -device scsi-cd,drive=isocd \
-drive file=/media/mrme01/virtio-win-0.1.136.iso,id=virtiocd,format=raw,if=none -device ide-cd,bus=ide.1,drive=virtiocd \
-netdev type=tap,id=net0,ifname=tap0,vhost=on \
-device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0,mac=00:16:3e:00:01:01
exit 0
fi
Not sure what to do or where to go from here, but here's hoping I can move away from Windows on my workhorse and still get to game!
