Re: GPU Passthrough on FreeBSD 14.3 (AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT and Windows 10 Pro)

Hi Jonathan,
Thanks for the update.

Can you try sunshine/moonlight setup?
This setup will bring you to something GeForce Now service.

Regards,
Petru

On Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 20:39 Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM Jonathan Vasquez <jon@xyinn.org> wrote:
> > Hey all,
> > I've done some more testing and improved my post. I pretty much got a
> full blown gaming set up working. It has it's qwirks but definitely can
> play games on this VM now. I no longer use RDP at all. Since passthrough is
> working, I just plugged in my monitor directly into the GFX card. Once you
> start the bhyve VM, you will get video out at full power (- w/e performance
> lose we have due to running in a VM). But I'm not getting any lag or
> stuttering due to RDP/VNC stuff. Since I have a KVM, I was able to pass
> through my mobo's USB stuff to the VM which means the KVM allows me to use
> my keyboard/mouse in the VM, and I can even use Ethernet and sound as well
> since the KVM has a headphone jack. So with all of that, I have everything
> I need to play games on this VM with the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT. The nice
> thing is that things are just going to get better on FreeBSD from here :).
> Please check out the info on my page again and let me know if anyone has
> any questions.
> >
> > I'm sure that we will get improvements in the future for:
> > - Resizable BAR support
> > - Fixing any issues with slowness with some games (probably a byproduct
> of something else going on)
> > - Any weird graphical/artifact issues in - some - circumstances.
> Although it seems when I do get graphical issues, it's only temporary and
> doesn't make the game completely unplayable.
> >
> > @Tomek CEDRO
> >
> > I'm not against getting this documentation into the handbook, but from
> my little work on getting some documentation updates into the handbook,
> there are specific guidelines that need to be followed with language used,
> structure, etc, and there are a lot of side things that I didn't describe
> in my document. All of this would probably need to be fully fleshed out and
> polished before something of this magnitude would be accepted as an
> official chapter or section in the handbook. Although I agree that it's
> very valuable information and a highly sought after use case I would
> think.. at least it was for me. I was thinking this technology would be out
> of reach for me for many many more years, but I'm happy that the day has
> finally come, and on my favorite OS, FreeBSD. Let's go!!
>
> Congratz! :-) Nice to see you play Cyberpunk2077 and Witcher3 that are
> from Poland where I live! Cyberpunk Not Dead! =)
>
> Jonathan, I did not find detailed information about the monitors setup
> for the host and the guest on your blog post:
>
> https://xyinn.org/blog/freebsd/freebsd_bhyve_gpu_passthrough_amd
>
> So you are using two GPUs on the host machine, on-board for the host,
> and the PCI-E for the guest?
>
> Is it possible to use both host and guest on the same GPU? I guess not
> because BSD uses kernel driver and that cannot be unloaded and then
> reloaded on the guest enter/exit and so KVM is necessary?
>
> Another question is why this will not work for Intel and Nvidia GPUs?
> I have onboard Intel and PCI-E RTX5070 from Nvidia :-P
>
> You can add video about this setup on your YT channel :-)
>
> Thanks for sharing the success story and hints on how to repeat! :-)
>
> Tomek
>
> ps/2: I really miss the good GPU/GFX support in bhyve, that is we
> could reuse existing GPU and screen for the guest with no VNC, RDP, or
> Passthrough+KVM :-P
>
> --
> CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
>
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