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How well does windows run in a VM? Will I be able to smoothly use image editing software such as Affinity Photo?
by jazoom 8y ago
How well does windows run in a VM? Will I be able to smoothly use image editing software such as Affinity Photo?
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoI run Windows 10 Pro under VirtualBox on Ubuntu - hardware is a Dell XPS 9560 (7th gen i7). Performance is basically native, I use it for PhotoShop and for video editing in Premiere. I was even playing with Propellorhead Reason the other day dabbling in making some music.
- jazoom 8y agoNice to hear, thanks. Is there any weirdness I should know about? For example, when I run some Linux distros in a VM the mouse movements are jarring. I'd love to do all development in Linux again but dual booting was too annoying. The way you do it sounds interesting.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoVMware has well implemented integration tools that take care of mouse transfer, clipboard, and resizing the desktop. Windows in a Linux VM works well there.
- jazoom 8y agoThanks. I'll have to give this a try sometime soon.
- rbanffy 8y ago> Performance is basically native Modern x86's have instruction set extensions to make VMs almost free of any overhead. The only performance hit you have is for the memory you don't allocate to the VM.
- noinsight 8y agoExcept for the graphics performance which is still terrible...
- rbanffy 8y agoThat would require GPU makers to, at least, document their hardware and offer workload partitioning.
- vetinari 8y ago> The only performance hit you have is for the memory you don't allocate to the VM. Also disk I/O. Increased disk latency can kill the VM performance, and it will increase, if the virtual disk is inside a (sparse) file, inside a filesystem.
- Grimm665 8y agoI use Windows 10 Enterprise via KVM on Fedora 29. It works quite well, even for more intensive tasks. I do not have a dedicated GPU, so I am not sure about image editing. The only thing I've noticed that is a bit annoying (and it happens in almost any virtual environment) is real-time audio for stuff like video conferencing. When I conference with people who insist on using WebEx or Skype for Business, the audio though the Windows VM is always popping and skipping slightly. Never enough to disrupt the meeting, but it can be annoying.
- jazoom 8y agoAlso good to know. Thank you.