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VFIO GPU passthrough
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 2 years (2021–2022), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with VFIO GPU passthrough, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- Passthrough is hacky, needs manual workarounds, and power management and driver swapping are frustrating2022-10-11
- Passthrough leaves reserved GPU running hot, needing workarounds that work unreliably2022-09-02
- Setting up single-GPU passthrough is difficult and requires tinkering to get right2021-07-18
- Passthrough setup is underdocumented, needs extra GPU, and can brick the system2021-06-20