Posted August 28, 2019 My goal is to use a guest os as my daily driver and honestly, it's working pretty well/better than I thought so far. Linux, Fedora plus three monitors provided by the host runs quite well on older hardware 2700k+DDR2. But I have noticed a few drawbacks though. -Webpage scrolling kind of sucks. Slow and has issues keeping up. How can I correction? GPU passthrough? Is it possible to have VMware just use the gpu for hardware acceleration, but keep using host's monitors? What about virtualization engine settings? -Copy and pasting from and to guest os almost never works. -Overall just a bit slower than running linux natively. Would newer hardware even help at all? 3900x & ddr4 or 9900k & ddr4? "Linux is only free if your time has no value." ~Jamie Zawinski "Peaches" CPU 10900k // Heatsink Liquid Freezer II 280 // GPU EVGA 2080 Super XC // MB z490 Vision D // RAM Corsair Vengeance 80GB 3600 // PSU Corsair RMx 850 // OS 2x Intel 660p 2TB NVMe // Monitor Half 8k // VR Vive Index // Mouse Naga 2020 // Keyboard Ducky Shine 7 // Fedora plus i3wm "HTPC" CPU 3900x // Heatsink D15 // GPU GTX 980 // MB Tuf x570 Plus // RAM Corsair Vengeance 16GB 3600 // PSU Corsair RMx 850 // OS Kingston NV1 500GB NVMe // Monitor 4k // VR OG HTC Vive // Fedora plus i3wm / Windows 10 "Dell Powerbottom N690 1U Blade, Totally Not a Shitty Desktop" CPU 2700k // Heatsink Stock // GPU EVGA GTX 970 // MB Yes // RAM Vengeance 16GB DDR3 // Monitor xrdp // VR Google Cardboard // OS Kingston 480GB // Not Porn 4TB Spinner // Fedora "SalmonLeaves" RPi4 Model B 4GB DNS/NAS // RPi 2 Model B 1GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted August 29, 2019 On 8/28/2019 at 4:13 AM, lowao said: -Webpage scrolling kind of sucks. Slow and has issues keeping up. How can I correction? GPU passthrough? Is it possible to have VMware just use the gpu for hardware acceleration, but keep using host's monitors? What about virtualization engine settings? Not sure about this one, especially if the host is already using the GPU. On 8/28/2019 at 4:13 AM, lowao said: -Copy and pasting from and to guest os almost never works. Seems like a more common issue from a bit of Googling. Try enabling/disabling the settings a few times until it works. On 8/28/2019 at 4:13 AM, lowao said: -Overall just a bit slower than running linux natively. Would newer hardware even help at all? 3900x & ddr4 or 9900k & ddr4? Perhaps a bit compared to your current hardware, but you'll never get native performance, because you are simply not running natively. Crystal: CPU: i7 7700K | Motherboard: Asus ROG Strix Z270F | RAM: GSkill 16 GB@3200MHz | GPU: Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti FE | Case: Corsair Crystal 570X (black) | PSU: EVGA Supernova G2 1000W | Monitor: Asus VG248QE 24" Laptop: Dell XPS 13 9370 | CPU: i5 10510U | RAM: 16 GB Server: CPU: i5 4690k | RAM: 16 GB | Case: Corsair Graphite 760T White | Storage: 19 TB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted August 30, 2019 Author 19 hours ago, tikker said: Not sure about this one, especially if the host is already using the GPU. Seems like a more common issue from a bit of Googling. Try enabling/disabling the settings a few times until it works. Perhaps a bit compared to your current hardware, but you'll never get native performance, because you are simply not running natively. Oops. I worded that poorly. I meant if I threw in another gpu, a low-end, would VMware be able to use that for more computing power, but still access the host resolution/monitors? Right now, the host has three monitors and the guest os has access to all three. I probably didn't put enough time into goolging the copy and paste issue, but I do have vmware tools installed and guest isolation has been enabled. I'm not sure if that's what you were referring to, but you can't toggle it with the guest os is live. Someday we will get there. I believe. However right now the performance is incredible except for a few downsides. "Linux is only free if your time has no value." ~Jamie Zawinski "Peaches" CPU 10900k // Heatsink Liquid Freezer II 280 // GPU EVGA 2080 Super XC // MB z490 Vision D // RAM Corsair Vengeance 80GB 3600 // PSU Corsair RMx 850 // OS 2x Intel 660p 2TB NVMe // Monitor Half 8k // VR Vive Index // Mouse Naga 2020 // Keyboard Ducky Shine 7 // Fedora plus i3wm "HTPC" CPU 3900x // Heatsink D15 // GPU GTX 980 // MB Tuf x570 Plus // RAM Corsair Vengeance 16GB 3600 // PSU Corsair RMx 850 // OS Kingston NV1 500GB NVMe // Monitor 4k // VR OG HTC Vive // Fedora plus i3wm / Windows 10 "Dell Powerbottom N690 1U Blade, Totally Not a Shitty Desktop" CPU 2700k // Heatsink Stock // GPU EVGA GTX 970 // MB Yes // RAM Vengeance 16GB DDR3 // Monitor xrdp // VR Google Cardboard // OS Kingston 480GB // Not Porn 4TB Spinner // Fedora "SalmonLeaves" RPi4 Model B 4GB DNS/NAS // RPi 2 Model B 1GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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