Looking Glass Host on bazzite
does anyone have any idea how to get looking glass working on bazzite as a host (not a client), i'm testing around and found bazzite so i installed on a vm with gpu passthrough, but I've never done passthrough to linux, it is working according to lspci but i need the host apparently for LG so i dont have to switch cables.
i tried compiling the host with the client instructions in the bazzite docs but the thing segfaults.
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ujust setup-virtualization will walk you through this
I did the kvmfr stuff, that part is working
@HikariKnight if you have time
but I need the host component do I not? otherwise looking glass says the host application isnt running and drops me to spice
though to be fair I'm not even sure I needed that, I have kvmfr setup on the host already
looking-glass host for linux is not maintained, has not been touched in years and none of the looking-glass devs are actively working on it @xored
so that is a better question for them than us
kvmfr is for when you use the looking-glass client to access the framebuffer of a gpu you gave a windows VM as they are only actively developing the windows host and the linux client
hmmm got it, that's unfortunate
looking glass host: this is for the guest VM
looking glass client: this is for the host to connect to the VM
yeah I was just planning to use bazzite to run my linux games virtualized, but it doesn't seem too viable if I have to setup mouse and keyboard and display
so not sure if you just got the applications mixed up or if you are actually trying to use looking glass on a linux VM with a gpu passed through to it
yeah i know what LG client and host are 😄 sort of
ok
I needed the host I think, unfortunate
well the linux host has not had any work done on it for a long time IIRC
best ask them in their discord about it
is there anything else I can try? spice/virtio/virtgl
alternative is using sunshine/moonlight which is what i do for my testing VMs
that could work but right now bazzite isnt even launching basic apps like firefox
i think because of lack of hw accel
until vulkan passthrough gets finished, no other options will work well.
opengl passthrough might be good enough for older stuff but you will hit a wall as soon as vulkan hits the picture
got it
so atm the best would be sunshine/moonlight with a dummy plug in the 2nd gpu that you are dedicating to the VM
i'll try that, thanks, hopefully it lets me stream the desktop like the windows version does since I can't even open firefox
as long as you have a gpu passed through with a dummy plug it does let you stream the desktop
is sunshine on bazzite or do i need to do weird stuff like layering?
pre-installed
just has to be enabled with ujust
beautiful!
you will have to make either a bridge connection or a host only connection for the host and vm to talk
or use the nat address for the VM when connecting to it
yeah i have a host device for it
doubt auto discovery will work unless its on a separate system if youre using macvtap (or at all if using nat)
hmm i just get a blank screen, anything else i need to do?
kwin is rendered over the default device mind u