- Feb 11, 2008
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The Fedora machine that I've dedicated to F@H and Rosetta since the start of the pandemic needs to be rebuild and I need to have windows on it. However, I'll only need it with windows a few days / week, so I'm thinking of keeping linux around in some form. Here are my thoughts, and I look for advice.
1) Dual boot it, and run Linux Mint and Windows. The general plan would be to leave it on Mint except when I need to run windows. This is probably the easiest decision, but will likely cost me points on DC projects, as I don't think it makes sense to put any DC applications on the windows install, as it will only be on during work hours a few days / week.
2) Run some kind of virtualization on the box with linux, and launch VMs for Windows and Linux as necessary. This is probably the cleaner solution, however I need direct access to storage and video card, so I'll need to do PICE express pass through to the windows box. In this case, what do I run as the host OS? I've heard proxmox is a good solution for this, but I've never used it. Additionally, I'm unclear if I can have a windows VM where I pass through the storage and video, and then assign the video to a different VM if the windows VM is stopped. Or would it maybe be best to run F@H on the windows VM and take the points loss for having it run on virtualized windows?
3) whatever solutions you guys may have that are superior to my 1 and 2?
Thanks for the thoughts
1) Dual boot it, and run Linux Mint and Windows. The general plan would be to leave it on Mint except when I need to run windows. This is probably the easiest decision, but will likely cost me points on DC projects, as I don't think it makes sense to put any DC applications on the windows install, as it will only be on during work hours a few days / week.
2) Run some kind of virtualization on the box with linux, and launch VMs for Windows and Linux as necessary. This is probably the cleaner solution, however I need direct access to storage and video card, so I'll need to do PICE express pass through to the windows box. In this case, what do I run as the host OS? I've heard proxmox is a good solution for this, but I've never used it. Additionally, I'm unclear if I can have a windows VM where I pass through the storage and video, and then assign the video to a different VM if the windows VM is stopped. Or would it maybe be best to run F@H on the windows VM and take the points loss for having it run on virtualized windows?
3) whatever solutions you guys may have that are superior to my 1 and 2?
Thanks for the thoughts