Timeline for Using a Windows virtual machine as my everyday computer: feasible in 2020, or too slow?
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| Jun 10, 2020 at 15:19 | comment | added | batistuta09 | Everything works perfectly until GPU is required. So, if you will run CPU/RAM intensive application, virtualization works perfectly. For 3d (like Photoshop) you need passthrough the GPU | |
| Jun 3, 2020 at 7:54 | comment | added | Robert | @zx81 Your question was generic about a virtualized computers, not about Virtualbox. As my comment is only about VirtualBox I don't think it is a fully sufficient answer. | |
| Jun 3, 2020 at 7:50 | comment | added | zx81 | @Robert thank you, these are strong arguments in favor of a no in response to my question. If you throw a few sentences into a "No" answer collecting some of the issues of virtualization, I will accept it. | |
| Jun 1, 2020 at 17:46 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | Wouldn't you need a valid Windows license for each VM install? Or is that OT for here? | |
| Jun 1, 2020 at 16:36 | comment | added | Robert | Some virtualization software have additional problems with audio devices. For example VirtualBox is nearly useless if you are trying to record audio (e.g. microphone) from my tests. Same is true for forwarding USB Bluetooth devices into the VM: Therefore all type of VoIP or video meeting software are next to useless inside a Virtualbox VM. May be VMWare works better but I don't have a VMWare VM to compare. | |
| Jun 1, 2020 at 16:21 | comment | added | Ramhound | VMWare which is the elephant in the hypervisor world, won't support DX11, until the next version of Workstation. So if you need DX 11 or DX 12 it's not realistic to use a virtual machine. I have no idea when ESXi will support it, but Photoshop, might not support the GPUs that ESXi supports for hardware acceleration. | |
| Jun 1, 2020 at 15:45 | comment | added | gronostaj | You're overthinking this. When upgrading, just keep the disk from old computer or clone it to a new one. Cloning will take as much time as copying the VM virtual disk would. Just make sure to buy BOX license of Windows so changing hardware isn't an issue. | |
| Jun 1, 2020 at 15:42 | comment | added | anon | I have several Virtual Machines running on VMware Workstation V15.5.5 on a Windows 10 Pro V2004 Host Machine. The host is a Intel i7 CPU with 16 GB of memory and a very fast NVMe 1 TB SSD. The guest machines work just fine in this environment. I am not discouraged at setting up a new machine every 5 years. I have two working machines and so setting up a new one is fairly easy: Basic updates and main software in one day and remaining software as I go. All software is in my document files. | |
| Jun 1, 2020 at 15:37 | history | asked | zx81 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |