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Re:“We currently have no plans to support Xwayland” by Accacin on Friday July 21, 2017 @04:05AM (#14818866)
Have you tried using something like this? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVM...

You get near native performance in a VM, the downside being it's a little tricky to set up and you won't be able to use your 970 in Linux.

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Re:“We currently have no plans to support Xwayland” by shmerl on Friday July 21, 2017 @04:07AM (#14818876)
Not really, I'm not interested in running Windows. I do run some Linux guest VMs on Linux host, mostly for building purposes, in order not to mess up the main system :) And passthrough itself is a interesting method of course. Now there is also SR-IOV coming which would allow using the same GPU for virtualization more effectively.
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Re:“We currently have no plans to support Xwayland” by Accacin on Friday July 21, 2017 @04:12AM (#14818895)
That's fair enough. I'm like you in that I currently dual-boot but most of my gaming time is spent playing Dota 2 so I rarely need Windows. SR-IOV seems to be very interesting!
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