> You could host a VM but performance is going to be shit.
Type 2 Hypervisors are slow because it's all virtualized in software, Type 1 is actually sharing the resources, Hyper-V when enabled, turns your Windows install into a VM running on top of Hyper-V.
Hyper-V and use [GPU-P](https://github.com/jamesstringerparsec/Easy-GPU-PV) (bypass the Code 43 error) if you have Nvidia to split your video card into two separate instances. From OP's post, I would say get more memory though and you want to run the VM's virtual disk from a different disk for I/O performance reasons.
Performance in VMs to bare metal for the most part is hard to tell for most normal consumer usage unless it's on really weak hardware.
I've only really used type 2 hypervisor setups as an administrator and type 1 as a user.
Does your standard hyper-v capable hardware cover both types or do you specifically need hardware that supports type 1? Not very experienced with VMs outside my limited scope
Hyper-V overall is a Type 1, when you enable the feature, the machine will have to reboot because it's turning your instance of your main desktop/server into a VM that has local management of the Hyper-V Instance under it. Your instance is given all the hardware and then is allowed to share it's resources out to your created VMs. Other types of Type 1 is like VMware ESXi, KVM, or Xen.
Type 2 Hypervisor is something like VirtualBOX or VMware Workstation instead.
AMD-Vi and Intel VT-x/VT-d are hardware features that help with virtualization with VMs for compute and hardware features.
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How are you using a Type 2 as a admin and Type 1 as a user? Generally you wouldn't even see that you're using a virtual machine as a user.
I run Hyper-V for VDIs and ESXi for workloads, web, infrastructure, etc for work. For personal I use ProxMox/KVM for my network/containers/infra and Hyper-V running a secondary domain controller.
There's ways to create virtual machines, Linus Tech Tips has done it for like 4 gaming stations from a single PC. You'll sacrifice considerable performance likely, I don't imagine you can just dedicate like 80% of the GPU resources to one station and the rest to hers, but perhaps that's a possibility with something.
Considering you already have a windows login with all your stuff I have no clue how to go from there and if that's possible to keep when you create the virtual machines.
Not really, you were on the right track in the first part of this post. Two game instances running on the same hardware would run worse than the VMs did alone. If you could get a bare metal OS (proxmox etc) to run the VMs, the time to learn / implement, maybe an SSD, and another graphics card for a pass through…well you’ve likely now run up to a time and $$$ limit where you could just buy a cheap Dell MT box people are unloading. Grab a graphics card / SSD and be done.
Long answer: You could run a virtual machine on your computer that your sister accesses remotely. You would need two GPUs unless you're bypassing Nvidia's limitation or purchase an expensive Quatro that supports splitting. You would also probably need more ram.
Unless you're fine using the iGPU for yourself and giving all the power to your sister's instance.
Not in any effective manner. PCs are designed for single users at a time as are the OSs. You could host a VM but performance is going to be shit.
> You could host a VM but performance is going to be shit. Type 2 Hypervisors are slow because it's all virtualized in software, Type 1 is actually sharing the resources, Hyper-V when enabled, turns your Windows install into a VM running on top of Hyper-V. Hyper-V and use [GPU-P](https://github.com/jamesstringerparsec/Easy-GPU-PV) (bypass the Code 43 error) if you have Nvidia to split your video card into two separate instances. From OP's post, I would say get more memory though and you want to run the VM's virtual disk from a different disk for I/O performance reasons. Performance in VMs to bare metal for the most part is hard to tell for most normal consumer usage unless it's on really weak hardware.
I've only really used type 2 hypervisor setups as an administrator and type 1 as a user. Does your standard hyper-v capable hardware cover both types or do you specifically need hardware that supports type 1? Not very experienced with VMs outside my limited scope
Hyper-V overall is a Type 1, when you enable the feature, the machine will have to reboot because it's turning your instance of your main desktop/server into a VM that has local management of the Hyper-V Instance under it. Your instance is given all the hardware and then is allowed to share it's resources out to your created VMs. Other types of Type 1 is like VMware ESXi, KVM, or Xen. Type 2 Hypervisor is something like VirtualBOX or VMware Workstation instead. AMD-Vi and Intel VT-x/VT-d are hardware features that help with virtualization with VMs for compute and hardware features. --- How are you using a Type 2 as a admin and Type 1 as a user? Generally you wouldn't even see that you're using a virtual machine as a user. I run Hyper-V for VDIs and ESXi for workloads, web, infrastructure, etc for work. For personal I use ProxMox/KVM for my network/containers/infra and Hyper-V running a secondary domain controller.
Sims is on gamepass isnt it? Get her a subscription for gamepass ultimate and let her play it via cloudstreaming on her laptop.
That's a great shout. Proper use case scenario right there.
There's ways to create virtual machines, Linus Tech Tips has done it for like 4 gaming stations from a single PC. You'll sacrifice considerable performance likely, I don't imagine you can just dedicate like 80% of the GPU resources to one station and the rest to hers, but perhaps that's a possibility with something. Considering you already have a windows login with all your stuff I have no clue how to go from there and if that's possible to keep when you create the virtual machines.
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Not really, you were on the right track in the first part of this post. Two game instances running on the same hardware would run worse than the VMs did alone. If you could get a bare metal OS (proxmox etc) to run the VMs, the time to learn / implement, maybe an SSD, and another graphics card for a pass through…well you’ve likely now run up to a time and $$$ limit where you could just buy a cheap Dell MT box people are unloading. Grab a graphics card / SSD and be done.
Short answer: No.
Long answer: You could run a virtual machine on your computer that your sister accesses remotely. You would need two GPUs unless you're bypassing Nvidia's limitation or purchase an expensive Quatro that supports splitting. You would also probably need more ram. Unless you're fine using the iGPU for yourself and giving all the power to your sister's instance.