The first step is usually the easiest; take your USB device and plug it into your Proxmox host. Wait a few moments for it to be recognised and then run the below command to identify which bus the device is plugged into. LsusbThe below shows an example output of the command.

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Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0403:6001 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd FT232 USB-Serial (UART) ICBus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching HubBus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hubBus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hubBus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hubBus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hubBus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hubBus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp.

Integrated Rate Matching HubBus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hubThe device I’m after for this example is on Bus 002 Device 003 which I identified from the name. Yours will more than likely be differentOften the names of the devices mean little and you’ll then need to compare the output of lsusb before and after plugging the device in.

For example, run the below command with the device unplugged. Lsusb /tmp/beforeThen plug the device in and run the following command: lsusb /tmp/afterFinally compare the two command outputs and identify the difference: diff /tmp/before /tmp/afterOnce you had identified the row in the output of lsusb it’s time to make a note of the usb bus it’s attached to. As above, mine is 002:003, which are the details I’ll need in a moment.The way Linux accesses most IO devices is through the /dev/ mounts, and USB devices are no different. You can navigate to the USB bus in /dev/bus/ by following the bus address. /dev/bus/usb/002/003As you can see, the above path starts with /dev/bus/usb/ and follows with the bus address in the lsusb command.

We’ll need this to pass to our OpenVZ container in just a moment so make a note of it.One final check we can do to make sure we have the correct bus address is to use the above path with lsusb -D to get a more detailed output of the device. This will usually contain a manufacture ID and other information that may help us identify the device we need. I’ll spare you the output, but an example is below: lsusb -D /dev/bus/usb/002/003The next step is to tell the OpenVZ container all about the USB devices bus location.

Using vzctl set we can specify the OpenVZ container ID, USB device and access level.Before continuing, make sure that the container is turned off.The command to run on the turned off container is below. Make sure to substitute the bracketed values as follows:. VMID is the ID of the openVZ container that the USB device will be passed to. BUSPATH is the path to the USB device that we discovered earlier. Be sure to drop the /dev/ prefix.vzctl set VMID -devnode BUSPATH:rw -saveFor example: vzctl set 107 -devnode bus/usb/002/003:rw -saveAnd there it is, turn on the container and point your application to /dev/bus/usb/002/003 and you should be up and running.

Table of Content.This is a guide for passing through you dGPU on your laptop for your VM. This guide only apply to laptops that does not load dGPU firmware through acpi call, which include all MUXed laptop and some MUXless laptop. # Replace 'xxx' to the velrsion of nvidia driver you installed # You might need to perform this operation everytime your upgrade your nvidia driver.sudo mv /usr/lib/nvidia-xxx/libEGL.so.1 /usr/lib/nvidia-xxx/libEGL.so.1.orgsudo mv /usr/lib32/nvidia-xxx/libEGL.so.1 /usr/lib32/nvidia-xxx/libEGL.so.1.orgsudo ln -s /usr/lib/nvidia-xxx/libEGL.so.375.66 /usr/lib/nvidia-xxx/libEGL.so.1sudo ln -s /usr/lib32/nvidia-xxx/libEGL.so.375.66 /usr/lib32/nvidia-xxx/libEGL.so.1.If everything work correctly, sudo prime-select nvidia and then logout will give you a login loop. While sudo prime-select intel (do this in other tty with Ctrl+Alt+F2) will solve the login loop problem.It is recommended to switch back and forth for once, if you run into some problem after a nvidia driver update.Blocking nouveau.Adding content below to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf:. blacklist nouveauoptions nouveau modeset=0.sudo update-initramfs -u when finish.If you have a DM running under wayland (such as Ubuntu 18.04, it runs GDM in wayland mode, despite GNOME is running under X11), some extra work might be needed to prevent nouveau from loading. Refer for details.(Optional) Install CUDA, since the CUDA installation process is, I will skip this part. For CUDA, I personally recommend runfile installation.

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It is far more easy to maintain compare to other installation method. Just make sure neither the display driver (self-contain in the runfile) nor the OpenGL libraries is checked during the runfile installation process. ONLY install the CUDA Toolkit and don't run nvidia-xconfig.Solve some ACPI problem before bumblebee install:. Add nogpumanager acpiosi=! Acpiosi=Linux acpiosi='Windows 2015' pcieportpm=off for GRUBCMDLINELINUXDEFAULT in /etc/default/grub. nogpumanager is actually part of the CUDA installation guide.

You might need acpiosi='Windows 2009', if 2015 disable you trackpad. For further information about these parameters, check:. sudo update-grub when finish. (Trouble shooting) If prime-select command updates grub, be sure to check your grub file again, as it does not handle escape character correctly, ' would become.Install bumblebee. #!/bin/bash# tap device nameTAP=tap0# Network informationNETWORK=192.168.99.0NETMASK=255.255.255.0GATEWAY=192.168.99.1DNSMASQPID= $(cat '/var/run/qemu-dnsmasq- $TAP.pid ' )if ! I have a lenovo w530 and am having problems with this.

I feel like I am close but again far.I don't know if this is the best forum - but I thought I would start here. I have a W530 lenovo with the nvidia optimus. (intel video + K2000m) I am trying to pass the k2000m to the windows 10 virtual machine. I have been using gpu passthrough for years on an msi gt70-2pe.It is a muxless laptop as far as i know.not sure.basically, if you use uefi (ovmf) it will not work as the windows side sees optimus and demands that you have the intel video shared with qemu also, thus the code 43 error.if i use seabios then windows cannot see that i have optimus and the nvdiai driver will work.i have an gtx 880m 8gb.i boot windows 7 with seabios.i upgraded a copy of windows 7 to windows 10, thus maintaining seabios and thus code 43 does not happen.

Configs seems OK to me. Does the GPU shows its subsystem id correctly inside the VM? If subsystem id are all correct, driver without inf modification should work. I think it might be other problem that lead to Code 43.Also, would you like to change hvvendorid=whatvendor to hvvendorid=whatvendor12 and see if this works?Edit: Maybe try use it with out specifying any romfile? Or use the Subsystem ID when you turn 'Switchable graphics' off in BIOS?Edit 2: I mean, record the Subsystem ID when you turn 'Switchable graphics' off, then turn it back on and test the VM.Edit 3: Sorry, my hands are tight.

But since your laptop is 7510, you can try enable the 'DisplayPortDirectOutput' in your BIOS, comment any QXL option, and plug a monitor to debug the VM directly. And, be sure to use drivers from Dell support site, do not use drivers from Nvidia (or Geforce experience). Hardware ID shows up in Windows as PCIVEN10DE&DEV13B0&SUBSYS06D91028 - driver installed fine.and setting it to whatvendor12 does not change anything. I have seen different strings all over the web and tried all of them (probably a waste of time:D)Edit: When I turn off switchable graphics, my primary grapics card will be the NVidia. I doubt I can use the Intel HD Graphics for my host system in that case, but I will try tomorrow when I have time to reboot.

I already tried without romfile aswell. Seems like vfio cannot bind the device, use lspci -nnk make sure no module is loaded for you GPU before bind it to vfio, also make sure vfio kernel module is loaded during boot, check it by lsmod grep vfioUpdate 01: Sorry but the above two are the only situations I encountered, might be better search other place.Update 02: Wait a minute, why it is qemu that report the problem, have you bind your GPU to vfio before QEMU launch? QEMU won't bind the device automatically.Update 03: Have you try OEM drivers?Update 04: For my experience, ROM is unlikely to be a problem, as long as the system does not load the rom through ACPI call. Anyway, good luck. Lspci reports 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller 0300: NVIDIA Corporation GM206M GeForce GTX 965M 10de:1427 (rev ff)Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau, nvidia396, nvidia396drmso it seems to me that no module is loaded.

Lsmod says vfiopci 45056 0vfiovirqfd 16384 1 vfiopciirqbypass 16384 2 kvm,vfiopcivfioiommutype1 24576 0vfio 28672 2 vfioiommutype1,vfiopciIt also does not list anything for nvidia or nouveau.Update: I put in the wrong numbers for the binding! I entered the numbers for the second entry, not the first.

Currently installing Windows, it seems to have picked up the GPU just fine! I'll update this comment if I have more issues or when I get it fully running.Update 2: I'm getting a 43.Update 3: Yes, I've manually installed Nvidia's drivers. I'm thinking it might be an issue with the vROM, so when I have time I'll try some other sources since manually dumping doesn't work. HiFirst, I want thank you for this Guide. I followed your instructions and I applied some modifications due to as a different OS (I am running Manjaro ).I writing to you in goal to explain my situation. I stuck when I install the nvidia driver on the VM.

The virtual Windows doesn’t recognize my card. In the device manager I could saw that my subsystem id is null PCIVEN10DE&DEV1C8D&SUBSYS00000000&REVA1I want to understand what is the problem, I hope that you can help me! If you need more information (like file or screenshot) ask to me.Thank for reading me, please note that I don’t understand everything about Gpu-passtrough.PS: Sorry for my english I am french. Thanks for this writeup and your continuing help.I was stuck with Windows 'Code 31' (not 'Code 43') this seemed to be because I had not set the SSID / SVID in the vfio-pci parameters.

Googling VFIO code 31 doesn't find anything, could you stick it in your doc to help those yet to get stuck with their googling?Question 1:how do I figure out if I have a MUXed or Muxless laptop?It's a Metabox (Clevo) P950ER.I suspect it is a fourth type not in your diagram: muxless with the intel card wired to the LCD and the nvidia wired to the ports. I've got the exact same problem as you (Clevo N957TP6).

I used Arch Linux as native OS and created vm with virtmanager and got Code 43. I am very sure it has something to do with the NVidia driver for Windows.Why am I so sure?Because I created a qemu VM with the same usual settings as hidden kvm, fake hyperv id et cetera.But I installed an Arch Linux guest. And this guest was able to use the Nvidia card (with ROM. Without it did not work).

I ran Unigine Heaven to test it on Linux (I did not use nouveau, I use original nvidia driver for Linux). Furthermore I could plug in an external monitor (DP) and saw the Linux guest there.I am too silly to understand these ROM UEFI ACPI things. But now I am thinking it is most likely a Windows nvidia driver problem. Some people thing that the Windows guest needs the complete Optimus infrastructure (iGPU + dGPU) to work properly. But no one knows what this nvidia driver is really checking. I'm close to give up.This is also interesting:He also describes a working Linux guest Passthrough. But that Windows passthrough needs extra stuff to be done.'

What doesn't work (yet)Windows guestWill need custom ACPI table to get VBIOS, as detailed above'Long term we need to build a custom ACPI table (provided to qemu with the -acpitable option) that has ROM implemented at the correct path. The ROM implementationm would need to seek over a hard-coded buffer stored elsewhere and return the VBIOS in 4kb chunks as expected by nvidia driver'Another good up-to-date thread for our problem and the muxless guys. Hi Woody,.According to your description, Code 43 seems can be resolved by plugging something to the HDMI port? To my view, whether Nvidia wired to ports is not important, some machine can control that from the BIOS, and I don't think this will cause the Code 43 error.Sorry but I'm just some enthusiast, don't know how to do the ACPI voodoo (at least not yet). And the idea to fool VM that we're passing a vanilla Desktop card sounds interesting, and yes you can do that by adding x-pci-vendor-id and x-pci-device-id options for vfio-pciCheers. Thanks guys for the answers!- I have skipped some of the things I have tried.

I have been booting the Linux Mint 18.3 ISO with the same settings as windows which I try everytime I think I am making progress. It reports that nouveau can’t work the card either. (unknown something 0xffffffff)I’ve been struggling with other things:-Ubuntu 18.04 desktop ISO installer doesn’t work with a keyboard with my laptop for some reason. Instead I have used the server install.

nouveau + bbswitch modules hang the laptop fairly regularly; I’m using the acpi-call stuff instead but I’m not sure how to confirm that the card is powered. it’s been a while since I mucked around at such a low level, I had slackware and redhat and debian back in the day but have been bludging on Ubuntu since 5.04. Output for lspci -nnk 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller 0300: NVIDIA Corporation GP106M GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 10de:1c20 (rev a1)Subsystem: Razer USA Ltd.

GP106M GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 1a58:6755Kernel driver in use: nvidiaKernel modules: nouveau, nvidiadrm, nvidiaoutput for lspci -n -m -v.Device:01:00.0Class:0300Vendor:10deDevice:1c20SVendor:1a58SDevice:6755Rev:a1.so from what i can tell it is 1a58:6755.maybe. But it's tied to pretty much everything else and when i plug it into the xml it freezes up my system.any other way i can get the hardware ids to show up correctly in the vm? Subsystem ID cannot be used directly like that. In the output of lspci, it is a hex number, you need to either put 0x before the number to denote it is in hex form, or convert it to decimal number. In you case, it would be 0x1a58 and 0x6755 or 6744 and 26453.And about the disappear of svender & sdevice ids, I'm not sure if you use bumblebee, or if you set vfio-pci to bind the GPU on boot, but for a correct config, no kernel module should be attached to the GPU before you bind vfio-pci and launch the VM. Meanwhile, svender & sdevice ids would only appear when you have a kernel module loaded for that device. In other words, Kernel driver in use: nvidia should not appear, and nvidia kernel module should be blacklisted.At the end, if you are running wayland based desktop manager (current version of gdm use wayland by default), blacklist settings in /etc/modprobe.d/ folder might not work.

The workaround is either specify you dm to use X11, or blacklist the module in grub setting. Thanks for the help.

That error 43 tho, it's killing me. From my understanding i need the GPU's BIOS and pass it over, now thats where I'm lost. I've searched around for one but with no luck. Not sure how i would about getting it myself. I know that there is some program that is supposed to get it whilst you update the BIOS but i can't find that. Any suggestions or links?.would be of great help. Oh and that last paragraph on your last comment really helped(tho i only just read it, but useful info).

'lets say i have an hdmi cable connected, should i get an output. Even if i dont give the ssids or rom', that would largely depends on your laptop. Most optimus laptop have video output wired to iGPU, in that case, no video output for the VM. Some optimus laptop can choose to wire to dGPU, but I would say quite rare.' Using a gtx 1000 'mobile' series they don't have uefi support' I think that's not true. Laptop shipped with G-sync (which have dGPU connected to display and iGPU available) have to support UEFI in their vBIOS, otherwise the laptop won't boot.

And several mobile GTX 1070 vBIOS I have also indicate that they support UEFI (though those vBIOS are for MXM cards).The other thing is whether to read the rom file you gave depends on the driver. So for your graphics card, if nvidia say that it should read its vBIOS from ACPI call (which means it read its vBIOS as part of the BIOS), then the rom file you have is pretty much useless, I think I've state this in this guide. I encourage people to try, because there is no way to know.

It then appears that some muxless laptop can read the rom file and not through ACPI call, but more people failed, and this error also appears as Code 43. This is just a note that you might not get what you want after all the efforts, try it wisely based on the time and energy you have. SuccessIt works on ASUS G751JM (i7-4710HQ, NVIDIA gtx 860m). It wasn't completely straightforward, but following this tutorial and reading (A LOT) about it on arch wiki etc. Definitely worked out. DescriptionI did not have Error 43, gpu rom was not needed. GPU can be hot-swapped between linux host (Arch) and windows guest (win 10) without any problems.

MiscellaneousI can't configure nvidia gamestream at the moment, but I believe windows side is cause of the problem.If you were messing with fan speeds (reading and writing to EC registers), remember to reset control values. 'Real' Windows does it on its own hand, but forgetting about that detail can cause gpu overheat, because vm does not restore control over gpu fans.

In case you own g751 you have to write 255 (or FF in hex) to 152 register for gpu and 151 register for cpu. If you have no idea what you just read, then you are probably good to go.Also when i run nvidia control panel i get 'You are not currently using a display attached to an NVIDIA GPU', but Unigine Heaven uses 860m and it is normally detected, so I will leave it as it is at the moment.The last thing is I can't run furmark because it says my opengl version is too low, at the same time Unigine Heaven DirectX 11 version runs without problems. I will look at it in near future.If you were messing with fan speeds (reading and writing to EC registers), remember to reset control values. 'Real' Windows does it on its own hand, but forgetting about that detail can cause gpu overheat, because vm does not restore control over gpu fans. In case you own g751 you have to write 255 (or FF in hex) to 152 register for gpu and 151 register for cpu.

If you have no idea what you just read, then you are probably good to go.Also when i run nvidia control panel i get 'You are not currently using a display attached to an NVIDIA GPU', but Unigine Heaven uses 860m and it is normally detected, so I will leave it as it is at the moment. Another success here: reached DirectX 3D gaming in a Win10 guest, using Looking Glass (framebuffer relay from guest to host). Still to be solved: Looking Glass gets lost when running some 3D app fullscreen (some games will launch fullscreen, some will crash Looking Glass).and at people stuck at error 43: you should try to compile a patched version of OVMF that will embed an ACPI table for your VBIOS. It solved it for me on a MUXed laptop (see my adventures at ), even if it was suggested by someone running a MUXless machine.: I believe your guide references outdated VirtIO windows-guest drivers (i.e. While installing the Looking Glass addition, I read that reference URL:, leading to ). Still, I don't know the compatibility matrix between the libvirt and drivers versions.

I'm using the latest ones from above (i.e. 2018).A side-note: if you have difficulties to dump your VBIOS or face error 43, you may read about clean GPU BIOS and preventing its 'shadow' copy to load in host, that may also solve this error 43 in guest (see ).

Solution is some additional GRUB param ( efifb=off ), untold in Misairu's guide, that may solve it for you if your host/flashed VBIOS is an UEFI one. It's Precision 7720. This machine is very interesting, as you can route all the DP port to the dGPU by configuring BIOS. In this mode, when the dGPU is passed to VM, the VM can use all the video output port (though some version of driver does not work correctly). The downside is, however, you cannot use any DP port for your host.However, It seems like Dell is now using a new design for their precision 7730/7530.

7730 now have 2 DP port solder directly to the GPU. My assumption is those two port will be assign to VM when passthrough. Hey, anyone know how to fix this issue with installing NVIDIA drivers?Other installations are running. Finish the other installations then try again.This NVIDIA graphics driver is not compatible with your version of Windows.This graphics driver could not find compatible graphics hardware.Also, I tried having the NVIDIA website scan for drivers and it detected my GPU without any issues.Tech specs:Laptop: Acer Aspire E5 575G GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 940MXRAM: DDR4 8GBOperating System: Ubuntu 16.04.6 + Windows 10 LTSB (VM)Thanks for any help!Techwizz. I'm trying to set this up on my laptop. Although admittedly I am not intending to use bumblebee at all (hoping to use optimus-manager to swtich to the nvidia gpu when the VM is down; but currently I have the nvidia driver completely uninstalled as I'm testing this initially. I am on manjaro so I'm not sure what the appropriate qemu package would be (e.g.

Whether I should just use the official qemu package or if I should use something from AUR)But when I try to start with the script I get this:qemu-system-x8664: could not configure /dev/net/tun (tap0): Operation not permittedAm I expected to run this as root? Hi, I have this error when running my script: qemu-system-x8664: -device vfio-pci,host=01:00.0,bus=root.1,addr=00.0,x-pci-sub-device-id=0x1c20,x-pci-sub-vendor-id=0x1043,multifunction=on,romfile=vbios.rom: warning: vfio 0000:01:00.0: failed to setup resample irqfd: Invalid argumentqemu-system-x8664: warning: vfio 0000:01:00.0: failed to setup resample irqfd: Invalid argumentqemu-system-x8664: warning: vfio 0000:01:00.0: failed to setup resample irqfd: Invalid argumentI have been trying this for 3 days so far, can anyone help me out? I have the same problem on my T480 under ArchLinux.Linux revenge-laptop 5.1.15-arch1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 25 04:49:39 UTC 2019 x8664 GNU/LinuxI provided the MX150 rom available and got the same messages. Qemu-system-x8664: -device vfio-pci,host=01:00.0,bus=root.1,addr=00.0,x-pci-sub-device-id=0x225e,x-pci-sub-vendor-id=0x17aa,multifunction=on,romfile=nvidia.rom: warning: vfio 0000:01:00.0: failed to setup resample irqfd: Invalid argumentqemu-system-x8664: warning: vfio 0000:01:00.0: failed to setup resample irqfd: Invalid argumentqemu-system-x8664: warning: vfio 0000:01:00.0: failed to setup resample irqfd: Invalid argument.

I got the same error, and an error 28 in windows (missing driver,it failed to identify the card properly), it's strange because it used to work fine few month ago.Last time I got error 28, I had forgotten to passthrough ioh3420, and after that the gpu worked, but now even with ioh3420 it's not working.I tried setting efifb=off in grub, but it didn't work.It might be related to, but in my case it's not just unstable, it's not working at all so I don't think that's it.I'll try downgrading my kernel tomorrow, right now I'm using 5.1.15-arch1-1-ARCH, same as you. You mention here:Moreover, if you have a Quadro card, you can load EDID directly from file in Nvidia Control Panel, and don't need to plug anything. Can even run without physical video output port expost to dGPU.Though you still need to plug something for the first time setup otherwise Nvidia Control Panel won't show.Is there any way to capture the HDMI/DP output and display it inside a window on the internal laptop display? I understand Looking Glass is a solution, but is there anything even more rudimentary? Is any rerouting of HDMI output possible? Is there any way to capture the HDMI/DP output and display it inside a window on the internal laptop display?

I understand Looking Glass is a solution, but is there anything even more rudimentary? Is any rerouting of HDMI output possible?Hey, just some information for you:In the case of Quadro card, that's Nvidia driver inside the VM that create the dummy display from EDID file, and its Nvidia's API (or DirectX, depends) looking glass use to capture the output from the GPU memory. Looking glass then store the captured content in a memory area shared between host and VM, and obtain the content in host client.The problem here is, by the time the GPU running, it belongs to the VM instead of the host.

You'll probably need to find a way to access the GPU memory from host when it binds to the VM through vfio-pci driver.Anyway, good luck with your experiment. My big problem with looking glass is that it still relies on a capture API which is very much platform dependent (xcb on linux, DXGI/NVFBC on Windows, as far as I know the only way to screen capture on Macos is a highly abstracted Core Graphics API - which doesnt even have hardware acceleration afaik, there is also no NVFBC on Macos). What I was proposing to do in my last comment is to somehow reroute the signal after the GPU memory stage (i.e. After the framebuffer from gpu has been passed to output port) and thereby eliminate the need for any platform dependent code.Trying to think of a way that doesnt involve physically taking a wire from the hdmi port (which would belong to guest vm anyway) to another port on the same machine (which would be visible to host). Basically like a capture card but both the output and input are wired to the same device. MSI GE75 RAIDER 9SEOS: arch linuxKernel: 5.3.7-arch1-1-vfioHave been around this for over two weeks, still stuck on error 43Nothing of this worked:. pass.rom file via qemu.

recompile ovmf with gpu bios. setting efifib:off. setting vendor and device id.

boot with vfio-lts kernel. etc.The gpu is successfully bound to the vfio-driver and I can install the drivers inside my VM, but the error 43 is still there, tried several drivers from MSI and also old and new drivers from nvidia but still no luckThe gpu is a RTX 2060Does anyone with a last gen MSI laptop had success yet? Anyone who would like to help me out? I'm currently picking out a high-end laptop to use for this, sadly I only have a lot of knowledge about software and not so much about hardware, I do have aquired the hardware schematics for the laptop I want to use tho. Could someone help me figure out if the laptop would work for a dGPU passthrough?

Like I said I have all the hardware schematics and more info so it should be possible to figure out from this, even if the laptop is muxed/muxless. If you would like to help me but hesitate because I would be buying a really expensive laptop and it might not work, don't worry just message me! I need a high-end laptop anyways (im a coder) and it would just be useful to be able to have a linux host and have a windows guest for me, instead of just running plain windows, but if the laptop I buy turns out to not be able to do a gpu passthrough without problems then I'll just use windows like I would have anyways.

So for me there's nothing to lose, only to win. I just want to increase my chances of getting one that does support it.