[farjar]

Kind of negates the purpose of even using wine. If your running a windows machine to run a Linux VM then you might as well install straight to Windows and not deal with the underpowered VM

[Arnavion]

>If your running a windows machine to run a Linux VM then you might as well install straight to Windows and not deal with the underpowered VM

Given the context, I don't believe mark-r was talking about using a Windows host for the Linux VM.

[mark-r]

Right, I was talking about Linux under Linux.

[shubb]

Also, last time I tried, the virtual graphics cards in the vm were much less powerful than a fully drivered up raw graphics card even on Linux, unless I was doing something wrong?

[pimeys]

This has actually changed. A friend of mine plays all modern games with sometimes even better FPS using the PCI passthrough in QEMU[1], I have to say it's a pretty impressive setup and I've played Witcher 3 with Arch Linux + QEMU + Windows 7, solid 60fps with ultra graphics.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVM...

[shubb]

Very bookmarked!

[mark-r]

I assume Windows in the VM would have the same problem. I guess that would be the biggest reason for avoiding a VM, if you're trying to run a game.