Beginner VFIO Tutorial - Part 0: Demo and Hardware

This video begins a beginner friendly tutorial series. Everything need to start playing video games in a Windows virtual machine on Linux.

# Timestamps #
0:00 What is VFIO and why this tutorial?
0:48 Intro
1:14 Disclaimers
2:15 Demo
4:17 Hardware Requirements and Considerations
4:26 CPU
7:41 Motherboard / MOBO / System Board
8:34 What is IOMMU? What is "good iommu group isolation?"
9:47 Gaming GPU
11:30 USB Drive
11:43 RAM
12:19 Storage - HDD or SSD?
13:05 A special necessity for VFIO: PCI-USB Card
13:33 Cooler, power supply, peripherals, and case
13:46 Conclusion and Next Steps

# My Videos #
Beginner VFIO Tutorial - Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahAPSMiKrE4
My VFIO Benchmarks Video Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLG7vUqRxMOG6svx97KUW_Zy-Wyeu_yIqS
My portal-style video game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBQODSplyM0
Virtual Disk - M.2 Performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yuw0nBprLro

# Links #

## Check your hardware ##
List of IOMMU Supporting CPU and MOBO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IOMMU-supporting_hardware
List of Board IOMMU Groups: https://old.reddit.com/r/VFIO/wiki/boardiommu
List of Example Hardware: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF/Examples
List of Example Hardware: https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/VTd_HowTo
List of Recommended Hardware: https://passthroughpo.st/vfio-increments/
Search the subreddit for user posts: https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO
Search levelonetechs forum for user posts: https://forum.level1techs.com/c/software/vfio/132

## Other resources ##
VFIO Subreddit Wiki: https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/wiki/index
Alex Williamson's Blog: http://vfio.blogspot.com/
Alex Williamson's Text Tutorial: http://vfio.blogspot.com/2015/05/vfio-gpu-how-to-series-part-1-hardware.html

# CORRECTIONS #
0:34 I didn't mention in the intro/disclaimers: There are some games and anti-cheat services that are hostile to their users and block you, if they detect that you're playing in a VM. Unfortunately there is a large overlap between these games and the ones that don't run on Linux (thanks YT user BreakPoint!)
Checkout the comment below by SolTheCleric for more up-to-date info on the AMD reset bug in newer cards and a recommendation for a good Host GPU

Let me know in the comments if you notice something!

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