
Some times i have to reboot the VM a couple of times until it starts. Some times i can right click disable and re enable and it works. The only issue i have is that if i reboot the host when my VM reboots the AMD HDMI sound device always has an error and cant start under device manager. I'm currently only really using my Win8 VM to run XBMC which i have feeding my main TV via a pair of HDMI/Cat5 extenders and it's working really well. Which I'm guessing is pining vcpus to actual cores, is there any benefit in doing this and if you have a quad core CPU and you pin 4 vcpus to the 4 cores does that mean that you cant have any other VMs running at the same time? My other question is in your xml you have.

I was just wondering whats the difference and whats the benefit of one over the other. My windows 8 VM is running ok but i think it could be better so I've just been doing a bit of a stare and compare between your xml and mine and I've found some differences.
#QEMU VGA PASSTHROUGH TWEAKS SERIAL#
ASM1062 Serial ATA ContrĠ4:00.0 Ethernet controller : Intel Corporation I211 Gigabit Network ConneĠ5:00.0 SATA controller : ASMedia Technology Inc.
#QEMU VGA PASSTHROUGH TWEAKS PC#
Subsystem: PC Partner Limited Sapphire HD 6450 1GB DDR3 Ġ3:00.0 SATA controller : ASMedia Technology Inc. Subsystem: PC Partner Limited Device Ġ1:00.1 Audio device : AMD/ATI Caicos HDMI Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Device Ġ0:01.0 PCI bridge : Intel Corporation Haswell PCI Express x16 ControllerĠ0:02.0 VGA compatible controller : Intel Corporation Haswell Integrated GĠ0:03.0 Audio device : Intel Corporation Haswell HD Audio Controller [8086Ġ0:14.0 USB controller : Intel Corporation Lynx Point USB xHCI Host ControĠ0:16.0 Communication controller : Intel Corporation Lynx Point MEI ControĠ0:19.0 Ethernet controller : Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection I217-VĠ0:1a.0 USB controller : Intel Corporation Lynx Point USB Enhanced Host CoĠ0:1b.0 Audio device : Intel Corporation Lynx Point High Definition AudioĠ0:1c.0 PCI bridge : Intel Corporation Lynx Point PCI Express Root Port #1Ġ0:1c.2 PCI bridge : Intel Corporation Lynx Point PCI Express Root Port #3Ġ0:1c.3 PCI bridge : Intel Corporation Lynx Point PCI Express Root Port #4Ġ0:1c.4 PCI bridge : Intel Corporation Lynx Point PCI Express Root Port #5Ġ0:1d.0 USB controller : Intel Corporation Lynx Point USB Enhanced Host CoĠ0:1f.0 ISA bridge : Intel Corporation Lynx Point LPC Controller [8086:8c4Ġ0:1f.2 SATA controller : Intel Corporation Lynx Point 6-port SATA ControlĠ0:1f.3 SMBus : Intel Corporation Lynx Point SMBus Controller Ġ1:00.0 VGA compatible controller : AMD/ATI

This is what is being pasted into the "from xml" window of web virt manager:Ġ0:00.0 Host bridge : Intel Corporation Haswell DRAM Controller [8086:0c00 Its untouched, so you need to tweak network,VNC, and more to fit your needs. This is from virtmanager (latest,supporting Q35 machine) from my arch VM
