I've seen this method mentioned a lot, so I guess it works. For me, it works as expected, except the mouse+keyboard randomly stop working for brief periods of time every so often. The VGA Passthrough setup that we're talking about doesn't normally support this method in QEMU/KVM, but you can hack it in. To release, you hit some special key combo and your mouse+keyboard is released back to the host. You click within the VM's window, it captures your mouse and keyboard, and then everything is like normal within the VM. If you've ever used a VM before, this is what you most likely are familiar with. So, there are several ways to handle mouse+keyboard that I've seen.ġ) Virtualized Mouse+Keyboard. Steam Steaming will probably be the best option for now. I could just grab a second set of physical mouse+keyboard but that's not ideal. QEMU's virtual mouse+keyboard doesn't normally work with these kinds of VMs, so you have to hack it in, and even then it likes to randomly stop working. The biggest caveat is I haven't found a DisplayPort switch yet, so I can't hook up the Windows VM to my primary Cinema monitor, and I haven't nailed down the mouse+keyboard thing yet. Thanks to using the 5820K which has a few Xeon features in it, the entire process when smoothly. It keeps Windows isolated, which is great from a privacy/security perspective, I don't have to dual-boot, and best of all I can spin up different VMs if I want to use the beastly GTX 970 for other work like machine learning.

The end result is that I can use Linux as my daily driver, but flip over to my Windows VM whenever I want to game. So far, things are working well and Windows runs the benchmark apps just fine. Windows 10 sits in a VM where it's given direct and exclusive access to a GTX 970 for graphics. I now have Arch Linux running as the host system where I do all my work. So I bought up a 5820K, a X99 motherboard, and an extra graphics card, and away I went. But wait! Apparently modern CPUs have this fancy thing called IOMMU I never knew about, which lets you give direct access to PCI-E devices, like GPUs, to a VM. I also didn't want a second tower just for Windows that's non-ideal. Dual booting isn't an option for me, because I tend to run various server VMs 24/7. But there's the caveat that is as old as Windows itself. Most everything I use runs in Linux, and for the few things that don't I can spin up a VM. It was good timing, then, that I watched the '7 Gamers 1 CPU' video from LinuxTechTips, which showed me how to do it without sacrificing gaming. With Windows 10 doing things like this, and Windows 7 being aggressively deprecated, I decided I finally wanted to ditch Windows as my daily driver.

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