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Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition
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Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

by Wasim Ahmed
November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
494 pages
14h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Configuring GPU passthrough

In this section, we are going to see how to configure a video adapter to be used directly in a VM. The GPU to be added to the VM must not be bound to the host node. To ensure that the device is not being used by the host, take the following steps:

  1. We have to find out the vendor and device ID of the GPU device to use passthrough. To pinpoint the device, we can run the #lspci command. The device should be the one showing up as a VGA compatible controller. The following screenshot shows our VGA device with ID 00:02.0
  1. To find out the device and vendor ID, run the command again using the following format:
 #lspci ...
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