Help with Setup

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If you already have a ZFS pool, you can arrange for Incus to use a dataset in that pool.

Here’s an educational example. I created a VM and in there I’ll create a ZFS pool over a loopback file (it’s easier for me), and from the zpool I’ll arrange so that Incus uses a separate dataset. The important stuff is what to answer when you run sudo incus admin init so that you are prompted for a dataset name. Then Incus will only touch it’s own dataset and that’s it.

root@myvm:~# fallocate -l 5G /VOLUME
root@myvm:~# losetup /dev/loop2 /VOLUME 
root@myvm:~# zpool create zfsdisk /dev/loop2
root@myvm:~# zfs list
NAME      USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
zfsdisk   102K  4.36G    24K  /zfsdisk
root@myvm:~# incus admin init
Would you like to use clustering? (yes/no) [default=no]: 
Do you want to configure a new storage pool? (yes/no) [default=yes]: 
Name of the new storage pool [default=default]: 
Name of the storage backend to use (zfs, dir) [default=zfs]: 
Create a new ZFS pool? (yes/no) [default=yes]: no
Name of the existing ZFS pool or dataset: zfsdisk/incus
Would you like to create a new local network bridge? (yes/no) [default=yes]: 
What should the new bridge be called? [default=incusbr0]: 
What IPv4 address should be used? (CIDR subnet notation, “auto” or “none”) [default=auto]: 
What IPv6 address should be used? (CIDR subnet notation, “auto” or “none”) [default=auto]: 
Would you like the server to be available over the network? (yes/no) [default=no]: 
Would you like stale cached images to be updated automatically? (yes/no) [default=yes]: 
Would you like a YAML "init" preseed to be printed? (yes/no) [default=no]: 
root@myvm:~# zfs list
NAME                                     USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
zfsdisk                                  588K  4.36G    24K  /zfsdisk
zfsdisk/incus                            288K  4.36G    24K  legacy
zfsdisk/incus/buckets                     24K  4.36G    24K  legacy
zfsdisk/incus/containers                  24K  4.36G    24K  legacy
zfsdisk/incus/custom                      24K  4.36G    24K  legacy
zfsdisk/incus/deleted                    144K  4.36G    24K  legacy
zfsdisk/incus/deleted/buckets             24K  4.36G    24K  legacy
zfsdisk/incus/deleted/containers          24K  4.36G    24K  legacy
zfsdisk/incus/deleted/custom              24K  4.36G    24K  legacy
zfsdisk/incus/deleted/images              24K  4.36G    24K  legacy
zfsdisk/incus/deleted/virtual-machines    24K  4.36G    24K  legacy
zfsdisk/incus/images                      24K  4.36G    24K  legacy
zfsdisk/incus/virtual-machines            24K  4.36G    24K  legacy
root@myvm:~# 

GPU Passthrough requires to first figure out whether your hardware supports it. It’s a combination of BIOS/firmware, motherboard, CPU and GPU. Once you know that GPU Passthrough is supported on paper (your motherboard’s GPU or that other eGPU), you would need to experiment with a tutorial like the one you posted above. That is, just with your Linux distribution try to make GPU Passthrough work as simply as possible. Perhaps a fresh install with a separate disk?
There are also other communities that can help, such as Reddit - Dive into anything
I am also interested in this in case you get the necessary insight.

Once you know that GPU Passthrough works in the simplest possible setup, then you can re-implement into Incus.