klotztech/kvm-setup

My personal QEMU KVM setup and configuration

KVM Setup

My personal QEMU KVM setup and configuration.

I currently mainly use the Xubuntu guest, which is configured for GPU passthrough for daily tasks and some Linux gaming. Only occasionally I fire up the Windows 10 guest and remote into it using either Remmina or FreeRDP on the Linux guest.

Table of contents

├── guest                   // Everything concerning the virtualized guest systems
│   ├── windows-10          // Windows 10 Pro configs + scripts
│   │   └── msi             // Registry patches for Message-Signaled Interrupts (MSI)
│   └── xubuntu-18.04       // Xubuntu 18.04 LTS configs + scripts
│       └── pulseaudio      // PulseAudio configuration
│
└── host                    // Everything concerning the host system
    ├── grub                // GRUB configuration
    ├── libvirt             // LibVirt configuration
    ├── misc                // Miscellaneous configs + scripts
    └── vmpower             // Script to automatically power off the host system

Thanks tree(1) 😉

Hardware specifications

CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-5820K @4.4GHz
RAM: 32GB Corsair Vengeance LED DDR4-3000 CL15 Quad Kit (CMU32GX4M4C3000C15)
MoBo: MSI X99A SLI Krait Edition
Primary GPU: Asus GeForce RTX 2080 Dual OC 8GB (90YV0C30-M0NM00/90YV0C30-M0NA00)
Secondary GPU: ASUS Radeon HD 5450 Silent (90-C1CP20-L0UANABZ/90-C1CP2U-L0UANAYZ)
Storage: Samsung 960 EVO 1TB NVMe SDD (MZ-V6E1T0BW)

Peripherals

Sound: Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 USB (2nd Gen)
Display 1: ASUS ROG Swift PG279Q 27" with G-Sync (90LM0230-B01370)
Display 2&3: ASUS VE248H, 24" (90LMC3101Q01041C)
Additional: Two mice and keyboards

🍻 cheers!