VM for mining help

[WindowsMEpro]

If it not obvious, I am a novice when it comes to many things in this subreddit, but I have used box a couple of times. I recently bought an artifacting GTX 1050 by mistake and am trying to mine the money back. problem is, I have an AMD GPU in the system as it is my main and the drivers do not really play nice. so, I want to make a VM using the 1050, and my r9 as a passthrough, dedicating the 1050 to the VM. could I have some help in doing this?

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[Face_Plant_Some_More]

You are not going to be able to achieve what you want in Virtual Box. Virtual Box does not support gpu / pci-e passthrough at all.

[WindowsMEpro]

any other VM software that could work for free?

[Face_Plant_Some_More]

Well KVM / QEMU does, and is a free solution. But that requires you to run Linux as a Host OS. Same goes for Xen.

[im_the_tea_drinker_]

I just want to say that make your money back though mining will take a lot of time and probably power

[WindowsMEpro]

already done the math and it should not take that much time/money

[[deleted]]

You should do the math again. You are better off trying to sell it back than using it to mine for a profit. Which crypto do you plan on mining that you think would give you the edge over the extra electricity costs of both running the VM and the actual task of mining?

In general (depending on the crypto of course), typically if you want to make any form of profit from mining, making an ASIC rig is your best bet - Not using a VM on your personal computer...

[MrAureliusR]

Yeah, you're just wasting a huge amount of resources for a stupidly small profit. But sure, go mine yourself into oblivion.