Hi Gavin,
I used to game exclusively on a virtualised Win7 machine using Xen.
I would _highly_ recommend that you use KVM for this as it (usually) just
works out of the box. I would also recommend using an NVIDIA card. My
personal experience with AMD graphics was good until the RX4x0 series. I
just couldn't get this working properly under virtualisation whereas my
HD6700s and such were fine.
Gaming performance was about right give or take a couple of FPS but high
levels of interrupt activity in the dom0/base system caused weird issues. I
found ZFS on dom0 to be espescially guilty of causing frame jitter when
gaming.
My original system was based off an i7-3770 with an Asrock motherboard. I
went through several iterations of hardware and the biggest issue was
always motherboard/BIOS support for VT-d passthrough. I ended up moving to
an E5-2690 and supermicro motherboard as the hardware passthrough support
was superior to the consumer gubbins I'd been using before.
Hope my rambling has helped in some way!
Thanks,
Ashley
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> Apologies for the non-Bitfolk/server post, but I'm hoping that people
> here have some useful experience to help me decide the best way to set
> up virtualisation for home use (local as opposed to remote access).
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> I've just built myself a Ryzen PC and I understand that in the past few
> years things have improved with virtualisation allowing GPU
> pass-through. Guidance I've found on the net uses either Xen
> (https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_VGA_Passthrough) or Synergy
> (http://synergy-project.org/synergy/), but I think you can now do it
> with KVM too (not sure if you can with Hyper-V, but I probably wouldn't
> want to use it anyway unless there is a noticeable advantage).
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> I'm planning to run Windows for gaming and a few other tools, and Linux
> for day-to-day usage and compiling (probably compiling in a different VM
> to the rest). I plan to pass through one GPU for Windows and use a
> second for the Linux VM(s). I may have a couple of other VMs for
> testing or running programs that have particular
> requirements/dependencies, but I'd only start these as needed and stop
> them when finished.
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> What are people's experiences with virtualisation (especially on
> desktops), and has anyone done hardware pass-through, particularly with
> graphics cards?
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> Thanks
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> Gavin
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