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Is Qubes any more efficient in resource usage than a typical VM? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 months ago by marcie@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Privacy benefits aside, does qubes run better than a typical vm like virtualbox? I tend to fiddle with distros a lot and I feel qubes might be a good choice, though I'm wondering about how efficient it is

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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

3d acceleration in qubes is very experimental. maybe not the best for gaming. You can do it, but your going to be elbows deep in virtio configurations

https://www.qubes-os.org/faq/#users

We do not provide GPU virtualization for Qubes. This is mostly a security decision, as implementing such a feature would most likely introduce a great deal of complexity into the GUI virtualization infrastructure. However, Qubes does allow for the use of accelerated graphics (e.g. OpenGL) in dom0’s Window Manager, so all the fancy desktop effects should still work. App qubes use a software-only (CPU-based) implementation of OpenGL, which may be good enough for basic games and applications.

For further discussion about the potential for GPU passthrough on Xen/Qubes, please see the following threads:

[-] marcie@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

happen to know of any distros that dont have this limitation and operate similarly to qubes? i havent heard of anything i know its a longshot 🙃

but maybe i could work on programming and making this a bit smoother if i like the rest of what qubes offers

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Qubes is unique

You could 100% play games on qubes if you have two graphics cards, or a integrated graphics on the CPU, and then have the GPU dedicated to a specific VM.

However, at that point, you might as well just use moonlight and sunshine and stream your game over the network.

Sunshine can run inside of a VM it just needs access to a GPU.

[-] marcie@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

i do have integrated graphics and a gpu, though i dont know if the bios has one set to run independently or something

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 2 months ago

Then you can game no problem.

Pass through the GPU to one VM.

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