Hypervisor Desktop Virtualization - Are you experienced?

[liberoj]

Budget (including currency): 4500

Country: usa

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Windows (gaming), Mac (productivity), Linux (Kube / Docker), Storage

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

Have an existing i9 9900K with 64 GB of RAM. Picking a type 1 hypervisor based on the most strenuous workload (Mac productivity writing out to storage). Looking for the good and bad of your real world experiences with similar workloads. Totally fine loading in multiple video cards.
 

Currently looking at esxi, kvm, xen, unraid

 

Well aware that i'm searching or a Leprechaun riding a unicorn over a rainbow; but was hoping somebody here has done it.

 

BTW Linus (and crew). A type 1 hypervisor desktop virtualization shootout would be super cool.

[Vulture78]

I think KVM is actually considered a type 2 hypervisor...  

 

That being said, I currently have a kvm setup on an i7 6700, 32GB DDR4, 2 x RX570.. I run both guest OSes simultaneously, plus a full linux desktop  (ubuntu) on the host.  It works fine for what i need to do however, i would not consider the stuff i do a strenuous workload. I do is some light gaming on windows, some photo processing, some video editing... but nothing professionally.   IO speeds are NEAR native (I tested this for the NVMe drive, the SSD drive and a 3 disk RAID drive using the benchmark from CrystalDisk and Blackmagic ). The CPU-Z benchmark was slower, but expected  because I only emulate 4 virtual cores per OS. 

 

I avoid running both systems at high load at once or everything sort of bottlenecks. I am still working out the wrinkles in the setup. I put in the extra SSD so the operating systems would not both be trying to share the NVMe at once... i suspect that IO could be the part of the bottleneck issue but i have not tested that theory yet.