vm VM with gaming capacity?

[iDL_Slotty]

Hey all,

 

the context for my question is that I´m currently trying to develop a game in the Unreal Engine 4 and I aim for windows as my main platform but I also bare in mind that a linux port should be possible without to great time needed cause UE4 can also natively compile for that platform.

 

My own PC is currently running Windows 10 and I have no chance to change that in the future cause a lot of important programms are windows only but I need a machine to try if and how good a linux version would run so I thought maybe there is a virtual machine that is capable enough to run games (linux in VM on win machine).

 

I only have some very basic experience with virtual box but that gave me not the results I wanted.

 

I read some articles in the internet and everyone was talking about the peripharels passthrough as being the greates threat to good performance in a VM when gaming.

 

Do someone has experience with gaming in a VM?

 

 

Greetings Pascal 

 

 

 

PC specs:

i7-3930k at stock speed

Rampage 4 extreme

32gb ddr3 ram

MSI GTX 1060 6gb

2x 250gb SSD crucial mx

[FloRolf]

Gaming VM should not work since you can't easily passthrough the GPU.

I'd say get an external drive, install Linux and your game on it and try it this way. A little like dual booting but not really.

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

Apparently Xen & VMware does GPU passthrough but I have no experience with it. You will not be able to run the hypervisor within windows as these are bare metal hypervisors. Considering that limitation, and the difficulty, you may as well get another hard drive and install linux natively

[AlTech]

16 minutes ago, iDL_Slotty said:

Hey all,

 

the context for my question is that I´m currently trying to develop a game in the Unreal Engine 4 and I aim for windows as my main platform but I also bare in mind that a linux port should be possible without to great time needed cause UE4 can also natively compile for that platform.

 

My own PC is currently running Windows 10 and I have no chance to change that in the future cause a lot of important programms are windows only but I need a machine to try if and how good a linux version would run so I thought maybe there is a virtual machine that is capable enough to run games (linux in VM on win machine).

 

I only have some very basic experience with virtual box but that gave me not the results I wanted.

 

I read some articles in the internet and everyone was talking about the peripharels passthrough as being the greates threat to good performance in a VM when gaming.

 

Do someone has experience with gaming in a VM?

 

 

Greetings Pascal 

 

 

 

PC specs:

i7-3930k at stock speed

Rampage 4 extreme

32gb ddr3 ram

MSI GTX 1060 6gb

2x 250gb SSD crucial mx

Gaming on VMs doesn't work as said above. The GPU doesn't provide hardware acceleration to the VM.

 

You should buy some cheap HDD or SSD and dual boot.

[iDL_Slotty]

Then I have to stick to dual boot

Thanks guys I hope it´s available in the future, cause that would be awesome

[whyevenask]

There should be a possibility to do this in windows with hyper-v but its only available on windows server and maybe windows pro. Never tried it tho. If you use linux as the host its easier. Just use kvm or xen to make a windows guest with a dedicated gpu. It works great for gaming.