Virtual Machine for home camera software (help)

[lyricalosu]

I am planning on using my computer to run the camera software used by my home security system. I want to have one monitor dedicated to just the camera software and my other two monitors used for my normal use (work, gaming, etc.). Is it viable to use a virtual machine running Windows 10 to run my camera software? I want to still be able to use my computer for my usual use without the other program sounds interfering. Since my computer would be on 24/7, are my current specs fine for both gaming and running the VM at the same time? Listed below are my current specs. Please let me know if there is a better solution or if I would have to upgrade my computer, thanks.

 

CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 w/ stock cooler

RAM: 16gb Corsair Vengeance 3600mHz 2x8

Mobo: B550M ASRock Steel Legend

GPU: Gigabyte RTX 2060 2.0

PSU: 650W PowerSpec 80+ Gold Rated

Also, I have 5 fans, 2 on top blowing air, 1 in the back also blowing air, and two in the front as intakes.

[manikyath]

is there any reason why you'd want to stick the camera software in a VM?

[m9x3mos]

4 hours ago, lyricalosu said:

I am planning on using my computer to run the camera software used by my home security system. I want to have one monitor dedicated to just the camera software and my other two monitors used for my normal use (work, gaming, etc.). Is it viable to use a virtual machine running Windows 10 to run my camera software? I want to still be able to use my computer for my usual use without the other program sounds interfering. Since my computer would be on 24/7, are my current specs fine for both gaming and running the VM at the same time? Listed below are my current specs. Please let me know if there is a better solution or if I would have to upgrade my computer, thanks.

 

CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 w/ stock cooler

RAM: 16gb Corsair Vengeance 3600mHz 2x8

Mobo: B550M ASRock Steel Legend

GPU: Gigabyte RTX 2060 2.0

PSU: 650W PowerSpec 80+ Gold Rated

Also, I have 5 fans, 2 on top blowing air, 1 in the back also blowing air, and two in the front as intakes.

There isn't a way to have a vm output to just one of your monitors. If it doesn't need the gpu you can probably just run one in hyper-v and rdp into it and leave that open on your third monitor that was. 

You need windows pro for that though. Don't think hyper v is available on home. 

[voyager_]

You would most likely either need to upgrade your system and plan to run both instances of windows as a Vm with dedicated graphics for each and more cores. I have a windows Vm running on unraid specifically for Blue Iris to run my cameras, your system requirements will greatly depend on how many cameras, resolution, etc... In my unraid machine I have a 5800x, 16gb ram, and 2060 passed through to windows and a gt730 for booting. All but 2 cores and 4gb of ram are available to the vm. This is able to easily handle the 11 cameras im running while leaving resources available to handle motion detection, deep stack for alerts, and playback. I have tried running this system without a dedicated GPU and the performance suffered drastically. Many of the security camera programs will use the gpu for decoding  or compressing the video streams for remote playback. You will probably want to look at the hardware requirements for the software your trying to run. If you do run them both as separate vms it will let you specify what gpu to use for each so you can have the monitors configured the way you would like but day to day it may get annoying if you want to swap or add devices.