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First Successful Catalina Hackintosh Install Was In Qemu/KVM

Tyson O'Ham — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 03:04:25 +0000

Today, a talented OS X enthusiast and TPP community member had Mac OS X 10.15 Catalina installed and working on a Hackintosh, just minutes after the Apple keynote ended. His secret to success where others failed was the Linux kernel virtual machine. If you'd like to learn how to do this check out part one [...]

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GPU Passthrough Reported Working on Bhyve

Tyson O'Ham — Sun, 12 May 2019 03:53:57 +0000

Normally we cover news focused on KVM and sometimes Xen, but something very special has happened with their younger cousin in the BSD world, Bhyve. Like to see BSD virtualization? Check out our OSX VM Tutorial For those that don't know, Bhyve (pronounced bee-hive) is the native hypervisor in FreeBSD. It has many powerful features, [...]

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Next Up Hero Shows Promise with Interesting New Mechanics

Kyle Brennan — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 01:18:11 +0000

Next Up Hero is a Steam Early Access game brought to you by the talented folks at Digital Continue. Slash, shoot, and revive your way to victory in this top-down action game. And with a launch price of $19.99, it’s clear why everyone’s talking about it. Read Also: Why We Recommend the GT 710 [...]

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Explainer – Why and When Modprobe and VFIO-PCI Is Needed

D Hanson — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 16:06:56 +0000

For quite some time now various guides on the internet have told us to use modprobe rules on most devices when doing PCI and VGA(GPU) pass-through. While in most use cases you will need to pre-bind your device to vfio-pci, or blacklist the kernel module beforehand, due to libvirt not wanting to dynamically re-bind with [...]

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A Quick and Dirty Arch Passthrough Guide

Jake Prescott — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 17:51:49 +0000

This short guide is for VFIO newcomers. If you are reading this, then you probably want the benefits of a passthrough VM - namely the comfort and flexibility of a Linux distribution alongside the ability to run both software and games chained to Windows. Also Read: Binding a GPU to vfio-pci in Debian Read the [...]

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