On Sun, 21 Apr 2019 at 11:05, Francois Gouget [email protected] wrote:
- Then one needs to prevent the host from using the graphics card. Usually that's done by having the host use the processor's IGP and dedicating the discrete GPU to the VMs. Unfortunately the 2600's IGP cannot be active when there's a discrete card so that route is denied to us. Fortunately there's quite a bit of documentation on how to shut down not just X but also the Linux virtual consoles to free the GPU and hand it over to the VMs after boot. Doing so means losing KVM access to the host which is a bit annoying in case something goes wrong. So ideally we'd make sure this does not happen in grub's "safe mode" boot option.
Another option would be to add an inexpensive card just for that purpose.