PCI passthrough is the process of attaching a PCI-E device directly to a VM; CPU support (namely VT-D for Intel and AMD-V for AMD) and motherboard support (IOMMU) are required for PCI passthrough to work properly. Hardware configuration used: AMD Ryzen 1700x Gigabyte X370 K7 Nvidia Geforce GTX260 32 GiB of RAM and a few HDDs Fedora 29 as host OS The system only has a single graphic card because it is normally used as headless compute server for which a GPU is not really required; the graphic card is also very very old Nvidia Geforce GTX260 with a standard non UEFI BIOS. …