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I did not try VMWare Workstation, but I did try VMWare Player and VirtualBox to see if I can get away with running Fusion 360 on a plain VM, and both had extremely horrible performance.

I remember even SketchUp wouldn't start in VirtualBox. I was able to get SketchUp running in VMWare Player, but the performance was very bad.

edit: this was also about 1.5 years ago, not sure how much improvements VMWare and VirtualBox have made in that time in terms of virtualizing GPU calls.

That is why I decided to end up setting up a VM with GPU passthru. It works extremely well for my usecase. I was able to score a cheap GPU for my Linux host (since I do not do anything graphically intensive on Linux, just need to drive 3 monitors), and was able to passthru my more expensive GPU over to the Windows VM. I would assume if you have integrated graphics on your CPU, you could use that for your host OS and get away with having only a single GPU.