I'm looking at switching away from Windows to Ubuntu on my laptop. However, I'm also a gamer at heart, and I play a lot of newly released titles, that may not have the best support on WINE. Since all the servers I administrate run Linux, and a few them are VM hosts built on Xen, I'm comfortable with a command line and virtualization, and I was looking at running Xen/KVM and running Windows in VM with VGA passthrough of the main graphics card.
However, I've heard there are issues with NVIDIA Geforce cards and VGA passthrough, and people have had sparse luck with both, and recent guides seem to consistently use KVM as the platform.
So for running a Windows gaming VM, which platform, KVM or Xen, offers better VGA passthrough support, especially with a NVIDIA Geforce card? I have no experience with KVM, since my servers are generally too old to have VT-X/VT-D, but that's not much of an issue.
Also for safety sake, here's my laptop specs:
AFAIK, I can passthrough the NVIDIA card, and leave the integrated card to run the host.
However, I've heard there are issues with NVIDIA Geforce cards and VGA passthrough, and people have had sparse luck with both, and recent guides seem to consistently use KVM as the platform.
So for running a Windows gaming VM, which platform, KVM or Xen, offers better VGA passthrough support, especially with a NVIDIA Geforce card? I have no experience with KVM, since my servers are generally too old to have VT-X/VT-D, but that's not much of an issue.
Also for safety sake, here's my laptop specs:
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CPU: Intel Core i7 4710HQ
GPU: NVIDIA Geforce 860M 4GB
RAM: 16GB DDR3 PC3-12800
HDD: Crucial 512GB SSD