Valorant
VALORANT is a free-to-play tactical first-person shooter developed by Riot Games. It combines precise gunplay with unique agent abilities, where teams of five compete in objective-based rounds. The game features a strong focus on teamwork, strategy, and competitive play, and is protected by Riot's Vanguard anti-cheat system.
Valorant has been tested in virtual machines by 4 community members on VMDB. The overall VM compatibility rating is Bronze — meaning it runs with notable issues affecting gameplay. QEMU/KVM is the most tested hypervisor for this game (4 of 4 reports). 75% of testers used GPU passthrough.
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VM Reports 4 total
You will be banned when they confirm you are on a VM. Since June 2026, they have stepped up VM detections, and if you want to play you will have to put in serious work.
Totally fine.
With proper tuning, overhead is about 5%.
full USB controller vfio passthrough
Requires custom kvm and qemu patches, community ones no longer work (thank apexkvm for that one).
Works
Perfect
Near baremetal
Emulated USB controller
Requires quite a few tweaks, but it is doable on AMD. QEMU, OVMF, and swtpm have to be sanitized, the ICH9 devices also need to be changed. KVM needs to be patched to stop intercepting CPUID. After a bit of trial and error and spoofing, I've been able to play on the same account for a few weeks now with no complaints. My only passed-through device is GPU, all else emulated to match host
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Works only with custom kernel and QEMU patches (bypass)
Custom patched kernel and QEMU required
Not a standard setup. Based on community reports. Not personally verified.
You will not be able to run VGC/VGK on stock QEMU. You must make your own kernel and QEMU patches to successfully run VALORANT in a VM.
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