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Looking Glass is lossless, so provided you can do your color calibration under Linux then it would work fine.

No, it's not. evdev forces you to have your keyboard/mouse either fully captured or not, which is a pain if you're just working with a productivity suite. With LG's SPICE client input is sent to the VM via the same channel that evdev does, but also gives greater control allowing us to keep the cursor in sync with the local cursor, making the VM feel as if it's just another application on your desktop.

Indeed, AV vendors flag LG because the windows executable we host:

  1) It's not a signed executable (FOSS project, signing is a PITA without corporate sponsorship)
  2) Microsoft Defender flagged the exe for wanting admin privs
  3) Google were dumb and flagged us because MS did
  4) All other AV vendors flagged us because google flagged our website.

We had to put the exe into a password protected zip to stop Google flagging us as we couldn't convince the idiots (robots) there that it was a FOSS project with all sources available for review.

Feel free to help us out and report the false positive to your AV vendors! :)

Yup, this is a good option too, makes it easy to debug/diagnose when things go wrong with the guest VM too.

Just note that not all multi-input monitors are equal though, a small minority appear to the GPU as unplugged when the input selection is changed.

Haha, yeah, it's why I like this handle, it's very rarely used anywhere.

As for support, I do encourage people to join the Discord or head on over to the L1Techs forums as I won't really be monitoring this very closely.

Edit: I mean I am at the moment because I am super stoked to make #1 on HN :D

Pretty much, lots of factors that are hardware dependent, such as how your motherboard assigns IOMMU groups come into play.

Yes, this works for many laptops but it depends on how the laptop is internally wired. We have many members that use their iGPU for Linux, and the dGPU for the VM.

"Almost" is the key word here, under a VFIO VM, it's 100% flawless.

The GPU is given to the guest, so the guest is driving the GPU directly making it a headless host.

Likely setting the NVidia drivers to use MSI (Message Signalled Interrupts)

If you want easy, this is not for you. Setting up LG first requires setting up a VFIO Virtual Machine.

As for how viable it is, very... we have many members in our community that are using LG for productivity applications. For performance, very close to bare metal. In applications like Photoshop and Office you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

Yes, unfortunately Valorant is one that blocks VM usage... not that it has helped them any.