Hi everyone, as the title says, I am trying to pass the iGPU of an intel i5 13400 to a VM but when I try to isolate it inside the advanced settings I can’t find it. I can only see the nvidia GPU I have which is used by docker containers.
Any idea?
Thanks
Mind providing the following output?
lspci | grep -i vga
If you don’t see your igpu there, you might have to go onto motherboard bios settings & enable the igpu.
Usually when you connect a dedicated graphics card the motherboard disables igpu & somewhere there’ll be something like ‘igpu’ or ‘multi monitor’ or whatever naming convention your flavour of mobo vendor decided is to obfuscated the setting under.
*Edit: corrected a typo in the command, it is ‘-i’ not ‘-t’.
…huh - any chance your igpu successfully passes through to your vm without isolation? Because I’ve tried nothing & I’m all out of ideas. It doesn’t always actually need to be isolated to work.
edit, maybe dummy HDMI dongle?
1 last idea - I remember on my proxmox system when I was slicing up my iGPU for VMs I would HAVE to have at least a dummy hdmi dongle on boot else things would break. Sounds stupid, but are you willing to see if there any changes after having connected it to a monitor (may have to do so before boot & leave it if you don’t have a dummy plug).
the problem is that I don’t see it in the devices to passthrough 
100% try plugging in a monitor or dummy dongle & see if it shows. (May have to boot with it plugged in & leave it that way).
You’re right! maybe I can try with a dummy plug
@Fleshmauler I’ve tried to plug-in a dummy HDMI into HDMI port which is connect to the iGPU.
I can see the iGPU if I try to add a pcie under devices in the VM settings.
Though if I try to select it under the settings of the VM, I can’t see find any iGPU:
The result is that I tried to add the gpu as passthough pcie but when I start the VM the screen is black/blank.
Any idea?
Any chance installing the drivers & then passing it through make a difference? I remember struggling with driver error 34 or some such nonsense when I was passing through to a windows vm, but I can’t remember what I did to make it just work.
Also, any chance the igpu now shows up for gpu isolation?
I mean, we got progress now, at least it is showing up at all.
@amigo3271 What you’ll need/want to do here is see if you can specify the GPU initialization order in your BIOS/UEFI. You want the TrueNAS console to show up and claim the NVIDIA card as the primary GPU - it can share between Docker containers and the host OS without any conflicts. This would hopefully leave the iGPU available for isolation and passthrough to your VM.
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do you mean to install drivers inside the VM?
Nope, in the GPU isolation section I can only find the nvidia GPU
Yes I think I can somehow specify that in the BIOS… I will check and I let you know 
thanks
Yes - though I remember it being a nightmare of chicken vs egg where drivers wouldn’t install until gpu was detected, and gpu wouldn’t be detected until drivers installed. I just can’t remember what change I made to make it all click together.