On Fri, 2019-02-22 at 20:21 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > > Note that if you actually want to use the Nvidia card to its full > > capability within a VM, you need to use GPU passthrough. AFAIK this > > currently cannot be done in VMware or Virtual Box, only on KVM/QEMU. > > It's something of a hassle to set up and depends on certain features of > > your motherboard and BIOS, but I use it to run Windows games and it > > works very well. > > I orginally wanted to install Fedora as my main operating system, with > Win 10 (for running games) and Ubuntu running in VM's under that, but > the live cd installer not being able to see any devices with the bios > running in raid mode put paid to that. But in preparation for doing that > I googled graphics hardware acceleration in both vmware and virtualbox > to decide which I would use. Virtualbox said it provided 3D hardware > acceleration if you downloaded its graphic tools, whereas vmware said it > provided 3D acceleration via a config setting as long as you used the > appropriate video driver, which I took to mean I could use my standard > Windows Nvidia Proprietary driver. My assumption that I could use the > Linux nvidia driver the same way I thought the windows driver could be > used seems to be misfounded. AFAIK neither of these '3D acceleration' modes are useful for games. To use the Nvidia drivers in the VM guest the only option is to pass the GPU card directly through to the VM. This means masking it (i.e. blacklisting) in Linux, so Linux uses your motherboard's IGP (internal graphics processor) and the VM has direct physical access to the faster GPU. The GPU cannot be shared between the host and guest systems (or between various guests, in case you're wondering). Being able to do this depends on your hardware setup. Here's a Quora article I wrote a while back which may help: https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-to-run-all-Windows-games-on-Fedora-Linux poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
