Re: optimized conf for Win!= DomU

[David Hill <davehill@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2021-06-01 6:21 a.m., Chris wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use xen with win10 and a passed-through rtx2070 for gaming.
> At the moment use this config:
>
> name = "marax"
> uuid = "e0de3cb7-3937-417d-8d63-b0993b377b6a"
> maxmem = 32768
> memory = 32768
> vcpus = 16
> rtc_timeoffset = 0
> localtime = 1
> on_poweroff = "destroy"
> on_reboot = "restart"
> on_crash = "restart"
> boot = 'd'
> vif = [
> "mac=00:16:3e:05:01:10,bridge=xenbr5,script=vif-bridge,model=e1000" ]
> parallel = "none"
> serial = "none"
> type = "hvm"
> loader = "/usr/lib64/xen/boot/hvmloader"
> bios = "ovmf"
> device_model_version = "qemu-xen"
> bios_path_override = "/usr/lib64/xen/boot/OVMF.fd"
> disk = [ "phy:/dev/mapper/marax_c,hda,rw",
> "phy:/dev/vg_lilith/lv_marax_d,hdb,rw" ]
> max_grant_frames = "128"
> pci = [ "01:00.0", "01:00.1", "01:00.2", "01:00.3", "00:1f.3" ]
> pci_permissive  = 1
> keymap = "de"
> vnclisten="0.0.0.0:2"
> pci_power_mgmt=1
> xen_platform_pci=1
> pci_msitranslate=1
> viridian=1
> hpet=1
> acpi=1
> apic=1
> pae=1
> videoram=16
> stdvga=1
>
> it works nice but does someone see something in the config what I can
> make better? For gaming there is never enough optimizing and power :D
>
> Thanks in advance!
> --
> ------
> Greetz
Have you tried Spice? You'd probably get better video performance. It's 
not super-complicated to set up.