Hi, I am the author of Looking Glass. While I can see you have tried your best here to provide useful information on how to setup Looking Glass, it's causing people to follow this and come into our Discord seeking help because many of the things you did here are either wrong or sub-optimal. I'd be happy to spend some time with you to help you understand how LG works, explain the issues you ran into, and why adjusting the curves on your host GPU had no impact on the guest FPS. Getting good information out into the public on how to setup and use LG would reduce our support workload. We also suggest that you always recommend people read the documentation on the website, it's kept current and updated as we make changes to the project, for instance you completely omitted the setup of the the KVMFR kernel module for GPU DMA transfers.
As i firstly discovered your channel, i remember you did something on windows, you pressed hotkey to swap virtual desktops, and i was shockhed, that you actually used virtualized windows all that time. I'm really thankful that you showed full guide for similar vm
You installed the host on both first go-around lol host is for the vm (it's hosting the server feeding the frames from the gpu), client is for the host machine (recieves the frames from the server). Easy to get mixed up
Wanted to set this stuff up for a few years now, since Wendel showcased the looking glass. I hope things improved and i finally get to it. Great stuff. 🎉🎉🎉 ❤❤❤
Finally got around to doing this. Thanks so much for sharing this guide! It was super helpful and made the whole process much easier. Really appreciate the effort!
To automatically fix indentation in vim hit "==" for a single line or "shift+v (n)j =" where n is the number of lines you want selected for indentation
Thanks for this video Chris! I'm gonna try to get vGPU with nvidia-merged-dkms working to share my only GPU with both the Linux host and Windows VM. Hope it's gonna work...
Does looking glass allow for displaying your VM across multiple monitors? Say, if you had a three monitor setup, would Looking Glass only display your VM on one monitor?
sick.., wish i got it working already but i still think this is above my grade___ stuck on windows forever, i fear. i'm gonna retry in a couple of days ;p
I didn’t understand the essence of this approach very well... Does the guest system use the same video card via PCI or do you have two of them? It seemed to me that it was impossible to render both the host and the guest VM through one video card. I'm not good at English and maybe I misunderstood something in the video.
The way Chris is using it requires 2 or more GPUs, but the concept (using Linux as a host, with GPU passthrough to a Windows guest) can work with just 1 GPU, with some caveats.
linux as no real way to detect programs going full 3D. so you want to configure gamemode or corespeed to tell the graphics driver to switch from 2D eco mode to full 3D accelleration mode for games. you could also manually tell your graphics driver to stay in accelleration mode, but i don't suggest that unless you own a power plant. while the nvidia driver tries to detect games with varying accuracy, the amd drivers entirely rely on human intervention.
I know there is a way to turn GPU memory to VRAM and we are researching on how to use disk memory to add RAM into the GPU. Is there a tool for it? Any advice?
@@TitusTechTalk I hope this issue gets resolved because from what I've seen, Plasma looks quite nice. I've been wanting to test it out as soon as I get a VM going. Hopefully that adaptive sync suggestion from someone else helped to make things better. Didn't get the chance to watch everything, but I'll get to it.
If it's something I've learnt in my time fookin around with passthrough, it's not really worth it in two cases. If you've too good hardware , if you've too shite hardware There are obviously cases where only passthrough is a way but the number of variables passthrough can introduce sometimes , can be an abomination. That being said , the technique in itself is amazing and the community's work on it is just staggering to the point where setting up a fully isolated Win10 VM with full passthrough can be done in just a few clicks and commands at this point of time.
1:14:33 exactly why i use windows. Everything just works. All my games and apps work on windows, then why should i switch to a unstable os that i spend more time troubleshooting?
@@waynoinsaneo has got to be a troll. Because these days i’m starting to see with my friends and with windows-using content creators that they run into the same issues with things breaking, and require the same level of maintenance to get apps working.
@@waynoinsaneo i am not trolling. It is a fact. Linux have a long way to go in terms software/game support. Compatibility layers will eventually break on game updates especially for multiplayer games.
@TorsionTestis ignorance. Typical of a Windows user. Valve has made it so that any modern game can run on linux. They wanted the steam deck to be viable after all. Its on the game developers to enable compatibility. If it doesn't work, it's because of game developers who hold a grunge against linux (epic games) and purposefully patch out linux compatibility
What's that supposed to mean? Cyberpunk is overall a very well optimized game, plus it can really push your gpu with ray tracing so idk what you are talking about.
Lol love your content but it's funny as hell listening to you bash Windows all the time then spend hours on end just trying to get your video card working better than 50% in Linux 😂 Could just load native windows, double click an icon and get full performance😂
Hi, I am the author of Looking Glass. While I can see you have tried your best here to provide useful information on how to setup Looking Glass, it's causing people to follow this and come into our Discord seeking help because many of the things you did here are either wrong or sub-optimal. I'd be happy to spend some time with you to help you understand how LG works, explain the issues you ran into, and why adjusting the curves on your host GPU had no impact on the guest FPS. Getting good information out into the public on how to setup and use LG would reduce our support workload. We also suggest that you always recommend people read the documentation on the website, it's kept current and updated as we make changes to the project, for instance you completely omitted the setup of the the KVMFR kernel module for GPU DMA transfers.
As i firstly discovered your channel, i remember you did something on windows, you pressed hotkey to swap virtual desktops, and i was shockhed, that you actually used virtualized windows all that time. I'm really thankful that you showed full guide for similar vm
You installed the host on both first go-around lol host is for the vm (it's hosting the server feeding the frames from the gpu), client is for the host machine (recieves the frames from the server).
Easy to get mixed up
Wanted to set this stuff up for a few years now, since Wendel showcased the looking glass. I hope things improved and i finally get to it. Great stuff. 🎉🎉🎉 ❤❤❤
Finally got around to doing this. Thanks so much for sharing this guide! It was super helpful and made the whole process much easier. Really appreciate the effort!
To automatically fix indentation in vim hit "==" for a single line or "shift+v (n)j =" where n is the number of lines you want selected for indentation
Bruh, you did a 2 hour stream about GPU passthrough at midnight
NERD 🤣❤
Thanks for this video Chris! I'm gonna try to get vGPU with nvidia-merged-dkms working to share my only GPU with both the Linux host and Windows VM. Hope it's gonna work...
turn the adaptive sync to Never to fix the fullscreen issue in the kde display setting
Sometimes i watch chris titus talk then i wonder what is this guy doing, why and why im watching this.
Does looking glass allow for displaying your VM across multiple monitors? Say, if you had a three monitor setup, would Looking Glass only display your VM on one monitor?
sick.., wish i got it working already but i still think this is above my grade___ stuck on windows forever, i fear. i'm gonna retry in a couple of days ;p
@14:26 I wonder why there isn't a status for when the server is ready? I mean it might be a small QOL change but it would be nice.
Amazing work! Also, any plans to release a KDE version of Arch Titus by chance?
Libvirt corrects spacing/indentation automatically when saving 🙂
hey could you do a comprehensive tutorial for all of this?
I have tried so many times to passthough my gpu, and it fails.. I am thinking of swapping distro's, and actually finding a decent guide
Maybe starting xorg with looking glass in other tty will do the job?
The new nvidia app replacement for GeForce is lightweight and it is good. Less telemetry too
Does this work on Single GPU Setups? Or do i need a Dual GPU Setup to get this to work for myself?
There is single gpu passthrough too, but its more complicated
@@pando... I Would be happy to know what You can help me with Looking Glass and i wanna try it out! on my Single GPU Setup.
I didn’t understand the essence of this approach very well... Does the guest system use the same video card via PCI or do you have two of them? It seemed to me that it was impossible to render both the host and the guest VM through one video card. I'm not good at English and maybe I misunderstood something in the video.
The way Chris is using it requires 2 or more GPUs, but the concept (using Linux as a host, with GPU passthrough to a Windows guest) can work with just 1 GPU, with some caveats.
@@jsnjynty
...it´s called an "Owl-Persona"!
I tried to compile Looking Glass on my Debian. Followed the instructions, downloaded everything, but it fails.
Can I run Virtualized Linux Distros with this?
linux as no real way to detect programs going full 3D. so you want to configure gamemode or corespeed to tell the graphics driver to switch from 2D eco mode to full 3D accelleration mode for games. you could also manually tell your graphics driver to stay in accelleration mode, but i don't suggest that unless you own a power plant.
while the nvidia driver tries to detect games with varying accuracy, the amd drivers entirely rely on human intervention.
There's a software tpm option for people that don't want to pass tpm through.
I know there is a way to turn GPU memory to VRAM and we are researching on how to use disk memory to add RAM into the GPU. Is there a tool for it? Any advice?
I tried looking glass on my laptop but i just could not get it to work without an external monitor
I might be late to this but I've seen someone use a dummy HDMI to make it work
so the issue with wayland was the capture card, not looking glass? i wanna get this working on hyprland
It was with plasma 6
@@TitusTechTalkAbout to try this out with hyprland. See if the wayland compatibility helps
Rx5700xt and rx580 for the pass through
I've got Looking Glass running with Arch on Hyprland, 6800xt and passing through a 1070ti. Good luck on your setup :)
@@TitusTechTalk I hope this issue gets resolved because from what I've seen, Plasma looks quite nice. I've been wanting to test it out as soon as I get a VM going.
Hopefully that adaptive sync suggestion from someone else helped to make things better.
Didn't get the chance to watch everything, but I'll get to it.
EverQuest, sweet! Which server? Mithaniel Marr here like 99-04.
Xev 99-04
If it's something I've learnt in my time fookin around with passthrough, it's not really worth it in two cases. If you've too good hardware , if you've too shite hardware
There are obviously cases where only passthrough is a way but the number of variables passthrough can introduce sometimes , can be an abomination.
That being said , the technique in itself is amazing and the community's work on it is just staggering to the point where setting up a fully isolated Win10 VM with full passthrough can be done in just a few clicks and commands at this point of time.
1:14:33 exactly why i use windows. Everything just works. All my games and apps work on windows, then why should i switch to a unstable os that i spend more time troubleshooting?
Trolling? Not even defending Linux, Windows just sucks.
@@waynoinsaneo has got to be a troll. Because these days i’m starting to see with my friends and with windows-using content creators that they run into the same issues with things breaking, and require the same level of maintenance to get apps working.
@@waynoinsaneo i am not trolling. It is a fact. Linux have a long way to go in terms software/game support. Compatibility layers will eventually break on game updates especially for multiplayer games.
@@onred_ usually bad xmp/oc. Since most of the creator apps have zero support on linux, how can you compare?
@TorsionTestis ignorance. Typical of a Windows user. Valve has made it so that any modern game can run on linux. They wanted the steam deck to be viable after all. Its on the game developers to enable compatibility. If it doesn't work, it's because of game developers who hold a grunge against linux (epic games) and purposefully patch out linux compatibility
From the GPU benchmarks I've seen this week, cyberpunk is definitely the most unoptimized game to test your GPU with
What's that supposed to mean? Cyberpunk is overall a very well optimized game, plus it can really push your gpu with ray tracing so idk what you are talking about.
@@Splinter047 No worries, my comment wasn't constructed exclusively for you to understand, Have a great day.
Wayland is the shit (litteraly)
Lol love your content but it's funny as hell listening to you bash Windows all the time then spend hours on end just trying to get your video card working better than 50% in Linux 😂
Could just load native windows, double click an icon and get full performance😂
Haha you aren't wrong! but I love the adventure.
Everyone has something to learn with what they have - what an alien concept, isn't it?
hi lovely it's 1st commenter