Planning for a Slackware host & Win7 guest, need advice.

Hey everyone! I'm looking to make a slackware-based Qemu/KVM system with GPU-passthrough so I can for-good segregate windows from the rest of my world.

the last time I tried using Qemu/KVM, I had also used a little thing called "vms", and although I downloaded spice, tigervnc, and I think xrdp, I can't remember what I used. Long story short, this was the straw that broke the camel's back for me, and I gave up for a year after the windows guest wouldn't stop bluescreening after I installed the drivers.

That was on a 2018 build of slackware-current, now I'm wondering if I should stick to 14.2 for stability's sake, or use current to get the most up to date things. Leaning towards 14.2.

So beyond the OS questions, I have some Qemu questions to extend my original post in the slackware forums

• What other tools, software would I need to make hardware-passed Qemu guests more usable?
• How should I configure an intrusion detection system (such as snort) to keep the guest from poking around where it doesn't belong on the host?
• How does software like Xrdp, Spice and TigerVNC fit into the picture with virtualization?
• (curiosity on this one, but not an essential question) What would cause a win7 guest to bluescreen after installing the GPU's drivers on the guest?

Original Slackware Forums Thread - contains my hardware specs among things
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ce-4175665040/

Thank you!