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I had a very similar experience - dual-boot is nice but not ideal because restarting takes time and you lose all your context. Now im running a (headless) ubunt
by zaptheimpaler 6y ago
I had a very similar experience - dual-boot is nice but not ideal because restarting takes time and you lose all your context. Now im running a (headless) ubuntu server on the host with a windows VM with GPU passthrough on top. With a modern 6-8 core CPU + extra RAM (+ a cheap 2nd GPU for linux if you want a desktop environment on both linux and windows active at the same time) you can have both windows & linux running simultaneously with no need to dual-boot. VFIO & GPU passthrough makes the VM run pretty much at native speed although it does take some tweaking to set up.
- bartread 6y agoThat's an interesting idea: certainly worth experimenting with. As you say, with GPU passthrough it ought to be possible to get a near-native experience on the virtual desktop.
- blandflakes 6y agoI've considered this route myself - are you using KVM in Ubuntu to get passthrough or is there some other hypervisor in play?
- zaptheimpaler 6y agoim using libvirt, which uses qemu, which uses KVM. There's plenty of good guides if you search for something like "VFIO VM GPU passthrough". Here is a good one: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF#Setting_up_the_guest_OS https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVM...
- blandflakes 6y agoAwesome, thanks for the response!