| 3 Jan 2024 |
 crushing-smite | These are indeed things I should accomodate myself with? And what are the main points of interest? | 09:52:17 |
 K900 | Honestly no idea what any of that stuff does and I don't know if I want to read it | 10:05:39 |
| K900 | Just set it up with libvirt | 10:05:44 |
| K900 | You can worry about making it declarative later | 10:05:49 |
| K900 | (and honestly libvirt is already plenty declarative if you just export the XML file) | 10:06:01 |
| crushing-smite | So libvirt would be the unifying abstraction handling absolutely everything? | 10:09:10 |
| K900 | It's not going to be handling "absolutely everything" | 10:09:55 |
| K900 | But it should handle most of it | 10:09:57 |
| K900 | You'll still need to do all the manual setup on the Windows side | 10:10:05 |
| crushing-smite | what is that that's not going to be handled? | 10:10:20 |
| K900 | Everything on the Windows side | 10:10:47 |
| K900 | And everything on the firmware side | 10:10:55 |
| crushing-smite | but that is regardless of I use libvirt or dig deep into the configs referenced above? | 10:11:06 |
| K900 | I don't know what those configs do | 10:11:12 |
| K900 | Maybe someone has a way to automate that | 10:11:20 |
| K900 | It should be possible in theory | 10:11:31 |
| crushing-smite | and what is that that's on windows and on firmware sides? | 10:11:32 |
| K900 | On the Windows side, installing Windows, getting a license, installing the Looking Glass server | 10:11:55 |
| K900 | On the firmware side, enabling virtualization and IOMMU, possibly IOMMU group assignments if your firmware does something stupid out of the box | 10:12:13 |
| crushing-smite | so, the firmware - the things I would do after hitting F12 on boot? | 10:12:29 |
| K900 | Yes | 10:12:43 |
| K900 | The "BIOS" | 10:12:46 |
| K900 | (but it's not really a BIOS anymore, so "firmware" is the correct term) | 10:13:04 |
| crushing-smite | I still don't get why it is called BIOS, yet I am using EFI? | 10:13:05 |
| crushing-smite | ok, that resolves it | 10:13:12 |
| K900 | Because everyone calls it that out of inertia | 10:13:19 |
| K900 | Except weirdos like myself that make a point of saying "firmware" | 10:13:28 |
| crushing-smite | What was it called initially by ultra-pedantic people? | 10:13:38 |
| K900 | What is "it"? | 10:13:46 |
| crushing-smite | the bios-firmware | 10:13:51 |
