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That's where I'm sitting. Sometimes I want to jump between gaming and working on personal development projects. Even with an SSD, rebooting anytime I want to do that is just a pain.


If you run on desktop hardware you can use VM with VFIO GPU passthrough. It's much less pain in ass than reboot or work on frankenstein OS.


> It's much less pain in ass than reboot or work on frankenstein OS.

No, it's an incredible pain in the ass to get this working properly, when I could spend 20 seconds rebooting


Can't agree with you. Adding one option into grub config for Xeon CPUs and one optional (you don't need ACS patch if one PCI / PCIe port used) kernel patch for Intel consumer CPUs is clearly not "pain in ass".

It's might be hard to setup few years ago, but now it's super easy. With AMD hardware everything just work out-of-box.




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