Virtulization

[Darchitect]

Hi, I want to use virtualization on my PC to run 2 PCs. The video that Linus has on it isn't quite what I want. I want to have it turn on 1 PC and have a way to turn on the other one when I want it so I can get the whole system power when only 1 person is using it. It would be nice if it could be done with 1 monitor having no sound and no passthrough audio. I have an NVIDIA graphics card:GTX 680 mac edition that was given to me (didn't want the mac edition to be questioned) and I want to have a RX 480 as the second graphics card but I don't have it yet so it could be an NVIDIA one. I checked to see if my CPU would work and it does. Also if Linus is reading this I think that t would be a good video. And I really want to do this because I spent WAY more than I need on  quad core CPU and 32GB of DDR4. Thanks for reading this  I would really appreciate a vid on this! I also know you have a video on it but not close enough for me to copy it.

[manikyath]

nice light theme formatting there

 

also, what you're asking is "possible" but so incredibly convoluted that it's not worth it over unraid, and the way linus did it in 2 gamers.

 

also, this whole virtualized gaming pc thing is nothing more than a fun gimmick, its hilareously, stupidly impractical.

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, manikyath said:

nice light theme formatting there

 

also, what you're asking is "possible" but so incredibly convoluted that it's not worth it over unraid, and the way linus did it in 2 gamers.

 

also, this whole virtualized gaming pc thing is nothing more than a fun gimmick, its hilareously, stupidly impractical.

Agree that virtulazed gaming for homes is a bad idea normally. 

 

For businesses you can have remote desktop that uses gpu's and works well, but normally your using something like citrix xen on dell precision or poweredge hardware thats costs 10000+ with thin clients.

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

For businesses you can have remote desktop that uses gpu's and works well, but normally your using something like citrix xen on dell precision or poweredge hardware thats costs 10000+ with thin clients.

in the buisiness world you use thin clients, and just regular ol' VMs since you dont need the GPU horsepower.

 

anything in the buisiness world that'd need gpu horsepower is either a render farm or a seperate workstation.

[LizardsAreOP]

That kind of thing is usually for business or school pc's

[Darchitect]

Thank you a all for your opinions but I probably should have included why I want it. I used to have a gaming laptop so I could play with friends without using Skype or cell but now that I have a desktop I want to be able to have that same expirience without dragging a desktop to a friend's house. If this video was made I think that I could be more social because (I will admit) all I like doing is playing video games and sailing (which I know no one that shares that interest). So Linus. If your reading this now you know how important making this video would be to me.

[Darchitect]

On 7/8/2016 at 2:00 PM, manikyath said:

nice light theme formatting there

 

also, what you're asking is "possible" but so incredibly convoluted that it's not worth it over unraid, and the way linus did it in 2 gamers.

 

also, this whole virtualized gaming pc thing is nothing more than a fun gimmick, its hilareously, stupidly impractical.

if you say that is possible can you tell me where to find a tutorial on how to do it?

[manikyath]

7 minutes ago, Darchitect said:

if you say that is possible can you tell me where to find a tutorial on how to do it?

i'll put it like this:

last time i checked, virtualbox used to have an experimental feature that did what you want.

but it was so convoluted and unreliable (talking VM corruption, and potentially also host OS problems) that most of their community pretty much requested for that feature to be pulled again.

 

it is such a complex and potentially problematic situation that is *has* to be deeply embedded into the OS layers (like it is on unraid, and very much not is on windows) to avoid almost certainly running face forward into a brick wall.

[ShiftyFella]

On 7/10/2016 at 7:18 AM, Darchitect said:

Thank you a all for your opinions but I probably should have included why I want it. I used to have a gaming laptop so I could play with friends without using Skype or cell but now that I have a desktop I want to be able to have that same expirience without dragging a desktop to a friend's house. 

This is pretty easy to do with MS Server and RemoteFX, you can even use full power of your pc on ipad when you're out an about but server is pretty picky and won't activate remotefx vgpu feature unless you have supported real workstation gpu at least, you can use firepro drivers and some trickery to make it work on some consumer amd gpus but this is not guaranteed and massive paint to do so, also you better be willing to fork out money for server and pair of win10 pro copies, if you want to do this beyond tech preview 'fooling around' trial or use headless hyper-v server for proper virtualization aka do what Linus did with unraid. If you plan to use rdp outside your home lan then you need proper router with right firewall setup and run your own vpn server because no rdp session should ever be exposed to public internet, ever.

 

Honestly, this is not worth it for a home user at all, unless you absolutely have to have it and willing to run hyper-v or unraid server or know what you're doing. Actually, for some basic tasks, testing or coding or maybe even some light indy gaming in windowed mode, you can get away with just running VMware Worksatiton player on your machine. If you need proper gaming you just better off just building 2nd cheap system with athlon x4 845 or pick up 2nd hand system, you can build pretty powerful machine using some old xenos and x56 mobo, if electricity bill is no concern for you

[Darchitect]

I guess I could just build another PC and use half of the ram in my current 1 with a 6600k