

You’ll see thisĬome back in a few places, especially when setting up the volumes in The hostname of my system is monoceros, aka unicorn. I connected over WiFi, which you can set up I’ll be shortening that to $ in this guide, because # trips upįirst things first, lets ensure we can actually read the console: The prompt should say ~ # to indicate you’re at a root Graphical installations is not a thing Arch Linux Once you’ve loaded the Arch Linux LiveCD and booted from it you’ll find Is fine since I have no intention of giving it to a guest. This option disables it for the graphics card, which The purpose of Intel IOMMU/VT-d and DMAR is to allowĭirect assignment of hardware to virtualised guests, more or less If you’re running into this error you’ll see somethingĪlong the lines of: DMAR: Request device fault index 0 Blocked a compatibility format interrupt request Successfully boot a >= 4.15 kernel but the whole system becomes Add intel_iommu=igfx_off to kernel parameters.Much in the way of power savings and can cause some weird rendering Don’t force frame buffer compression, doesn’t seem to do For some reason this stillĬauses the kernel to be marked as tainted b/c the option is consideredĭangerous.

Setting it to -1 puts it in auto mode however, letting the systemĭetect if the firmware is there and load it. However, the kernel still defaults to not turning GuC RC6 is automatically enabled, PSR doesn’t seem to do much and neitherĭoes modeset.


XPS 13 (9360, Kaby Lake) Developer Edition (comes pre-loaded with Ubuntu). Was going to be the year of the Linux Desktop and I’ve switched to a Dell MacBook Pro’s as my daily drivers the new MBP with touchbar wasn’t getting meĮxcited and the new keyboard feels downright awful to me. After about 3 years it was time to refresh my hardware.
