![]() You can think of this as making your experience a lot closer to what it would be like if you were using VMWare or VirtualBox. Virt-manager (or Virtual Machine Manager) is a GUI application for managing your virtual machines using KVM. To elaborate a bit on some of the terminology I used, here are some short descriptions. I had this same issue with a 3700k and an incompatible motherboard and had to switch them both out, but I ended up making a little bit of money through the ebay purchases and sales. With a 2600k, you'd need to downgrade to the non-K version and check to see if your motherboard supports VT-D as well. There's also a lot more information on all of this on the Arch wiki under KVM, QEMU, and VFIO. It's definitely not as simple as using virtualbox or VMWare, but if you set it up thorugh virt manager you can skip a lot of the manual steps this guy went through. I would recommend reading this blog post to get an idea for what you'd have to do to get it set up. There are a lot of quirks, like needing a CPU and motherboard compatible with Intel VT-D or the AMD equivalent, needing a new enough GPU that has a UEFI VBIOS (or getting the VBIOS from the manufacturer,) what chips your IO goes through which helps with dedicating peripherals to the VM, etc. ![]() The only tricky part is hardware compatibility. You can also use Looking Glass for a much more responsive solution than using spice (which is what virt manager uses by default and is essentially the same as using remote desktop.) You can get Performance comes pretty close to running on bare metal nowadays, and you can even pass through a secondary GPU to the VM or have a single dedicated GPU and use an integrated GPU for the host. ![]() ![]() I believe that the solution with the least overhead would be using Linux as your primary OS and using KVM (kernel-based virtual machine, not a KVM switch though that could be used as well) to virtualize Windows. ![]()
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