VGA Passthrough with OVMF+VFIO on Ubuntu 16.04

linux / virtualization / kvm / vga passthrough

After many months of research and reading through various articles detailing VGA passthrough builds (such as here, here, and here), I finally decided to upgrade my machine— with PCI passthrough being a primary objective of the new build. I have never liked dual-booting, and using Windows as my primary…

Xen to KVM Node Migration

linux / virtualization / kvm / xen / libvirt

Converting Xen 4.4 guest domains to run under KVM I've been using Xen 4.4 with the XL (XenLite) toolchain for the past 18 months or so, and it has worked very reliably during that time. However, my biggest issue with the XL toolchain is that the support from…