Virtual machine project

[Giulio Ruello]

Last summer my 3 years old msi r9 280 died, but that hasn't been much of a problem since I left home for university. This summer I will come back home and build a new gaming pc for my brother (i7 8700k, rtx2070, 16gb ram) and I figured out I might actually use it too. Is it possible to make two virtual machines out of a single graphic cards?

[leadeater]

2 minutes ago, Giulio Ruello said:

Is it possible to make two virtual machines out of a single graphic cards?

Not for gaming usage like you will be doing, neither would you be able to split out 2 monitor outputs to display 2 VMs independently. Sharing a GPU is possible but the platforms and software that do it are designed for a different usage case and are expensive.

 

The cheapest option is to put multiple graphics cards in a single computer and assign those to a VM each using something like unRAID, however I'm not much a fan of this. I would upgrade the CPU to one with more cores if you did that as well, 9900k or Ryzen 7.

[Giulio Ruello]

2 minutes ago, leadeater said:

Not for gaming usage like you will be doing, neither would you be able to split out 2 monitor outputs to display 2 VMs independently. Sharing a GPU is possible but the platforms and software that do it are designed for a different usage case and are expensive.

 

The cheapest option is to put multiple graphics cards in a single computer and assign those to a VM each using something like unRAID, however I'm not much a fan of this. I would upgrade the CPU to one with more cores if you did that as well, 9900k or Ryzen 7.

Thank you for the answer. would it be a problem to put different gpus for each VM?

[leadeater]

1 minute ago, Giulio Ruello said:

Thank you for the answer. would it be a problem to put different gpus for each VM?

That will be fine.

[DeaconFrost]

What is it you are trying to accomplish?  Are you trying to have both of you play games at the same time using the same computer?  If so, I wouldn't recommend that.