• Ace! _SL/S@ani.social
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    20 days ago

    With GPU passthrough you can get almost native performance. This requires 2 GPUs though (iGPU as second one should suffice), dunno about the input lag and stability though as I only have one GPU

    Without it though? Not even worth trying

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      20 days ago

      Someone in a previous post said they did it with one GPU, using a script to handle the swap when they were done with the VM.

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        20 days ago

        That’s definitely possible but would make the host OS unusable while the VM is running afaik. Why not dual boot at that point?

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          I believe it was brought up after the previous Windows update fuckup, so that’s as good a reason as any. Some people don’t want to reserve a partition just for Windows but still need/want to be able to use certain programs that aren’t yet usable on Linux.

          VMs safely contain Windows so it can’t do anything to the host, and if you’re playing a game on a Windows VM, you’re probably not worried about using the host anyway. I’ve considered it myself, but I’ve done dual boot, and it’s not worth having the training wheels, imo.