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How do graphics intensive apps like sketch or photoshop or premiere work in a vm?
by andrei_says_ 10y ago
How do graphics intensive apps like sketch or photoshop or premiere work in a vm?
- axonic 10y agoWith a second GPU you can get near bare metal performance by using PCI passthrough [1] on UEFI systems. The VM gets exclusive ownership of one adapter essentially. I am currently running Arch for a host, Photoshop via Wine and in Win VM. In the VM it runs far better, just like a native Windows dual boot. I use various Windows and Mac VMs and I routinely game on one monitor while my spouse plays games on the other, runs great. We've joked that Windows 10 runs better in Linux and is easier to manage. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVM... edit: Less overhead required for quick usage but no super cow powers, thats why I bother loading via Wine also sometimes. I know someone was wondering... Also, my Wacom works flawlessly across all OS and seamlessly transitions in a QT5 virtmanager session from Plasma to Windows. ymmv, consult docs for configuration options. I've seen people saying you cant do this, bs.
- andrei_says_ 10y agoThis sounds very attractive. Do you have to have a specific gpu chipset for OS X if you do the pci pass through? Would you consider listing your hardware?
- axonic 10y agoSpecs and more, but with added storage, cooling, power, and a second gpu now: http://hwbot.org/submission/2365111_guiltypixel_cpu_frequency_core_i7_3820_4929.84_mhz http://hwbot.org/submission/2365111_guiltypixel_cpu_frequenc...
- andrei_says_ 10y agoThank you. The specs list shows one GeForce gtx 660 ti. Do you have two of these?
- axonic 10y agoOne 660 and one 260 :)