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Next year is always the year of the Linux desktop. But I begin seeing worries in people where MS is pushing the OS (mostly privacy concerns) and is seems runni

Next year is always the year of the Linux desktop. But I begin seeing worries in people where MS is pushing the OS (mostly privacy concerns) and is seems running windows in a hypervisor with VGA card passed trough is becoming more and more popular.

mynameisvlad 13y ago
> and is seems running windows in a hypervisor with VGA card passed trough is becoming more and more popular. I know absolutely nobody who does this.
- BinaryBrainz 13y ago
  I'm guessing that he's being a bit sarcastic since this would be an extremely hodgepodged setup, but I have thought about doing something like this for a home server/personal computer setup. My thoughts where to have something like a rackmounted server machine in my basement with multiple storage drives, oodles of RAM, CPU, and a video card with it all running under an ESX (or whatever) install. Over the hypervisor I could then have running a headless NAS OS (e.g. UnRAID or FreeNAS) for my backups/media/etc and then a full-blown gaming PC running Windows with the GPU being virtually attached to it. Then (oh there's more) I could run all of my keyboard, video, mouse, and USB cables for the virtual gaming PC up through my house to where my desk is located. I figure that with this setup I could consolidate a several physical computers (gaming pc, NAS, etc) into one workhorse computer which would save space and possibly some electricity.
  - venomsnake 13y ago
    Sarcastic - no - for a few tech savvy friends of mine the only thing that really keeps them on non virtualized windows is gaming. So any solution that offers them that - from high performance vm driver to vga passtrough is ok. The desire to sandbox windows is real.
- fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
  I do something similar but only because of some Windows only educrapware that was foisted upon me. Well, and LabView.

mynameisvlad 13y ago

> and is seems running windows in a hypervisor with VGA card passed trough is becoming more and more popular. I know absolutely nobody who does this.

BinaryBrainz 13y ago
I'm guessing that he's being a bit sarcastic since this would be an extremely hodgepodged setup, but I have thought about doing something like this for a home server/personal computer setup. My thoughts where to have something like a rackmounted server machine in my basement with multiple storage drives, oodles of RAM, CPU, and a video card with it all running under an ESX (or whatever) install. Over the hypervisor I could then have running a headless NAS OS (e.g. UnRAID or FreeNAS) for my backups/media/etc and then a full-blown gaming PC running Windows with the GPU being virtually attached to it. Then (oh there's more) I could run all of my keyboard, video, mouse, and USB cables for the virtual gaming PC up through my house to where my desk is located. I figure that with this setup I could consolidate a several physical computers (gaming pc, NAS, etc) into one workhorse computer which would save space and possibly some electricity.
- venomsnake 13y ago
  Sarcastic - no - for a few tech savvy friends of mine the only thing that really keeps them on non virtualized windows is gaming. So any solution that offers them that - from high performance vm driver to vga passtrough is ok. The desire to sandbox windows is real.
fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
I do something similar but only because of some Windows only educrapware that was foisted upon me. Well, and LabView.