Joined 4 years ago
Few years ago there was an uprise of blog posts explaining how to run Linux as a primary system and virtualize Windows machine with GPU passthrough for gaming. ~ 1 year ago I took a dive and did a lot of reading and attempts to make it work, the final results made me really happy. QEMU/KVM/VFIO is one of the best software combinations I've ever used.
Witch CPU isolation and scheduling properly setup my Linux part of machine runs Docker with 25 services, while Windows part happily plays games without stutter at the same time. That said, quite a few gaming companies are anti-virtualization (with reasonings being that mostly those who use it are using it for cheating purposes) and ban your account, without rights to appeal (ex. Rainbow Six). I honestly find this stance blunt and it feels like discrimination. But currently such use of virtualization is really niche, so what one can do?
Few years ago there was an uprise of blog posts explaining how to run Linux as a primary system and virtualize Windows machine with GPU passthrough for gaming. ~ 1 year ago I took a dive and did a lot of reading and attempts to make it work, the final results made me really happy. QEMU/KVM/VFIO is one of the best software combinations I've ever used.