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by ArcVRArthur 1392 days ago
For my use I tend to run a high performing Windows VM (very good with most games and other GPU accelerated programs - even chrome/adobe these days uses the GPU) inside Linux.

This can also be used for various high assurance use cases such as OpenXT / QubesOS (security by compartmentalization). For example a laptop computer being used by an automotive company for CAD to keep their information safe from other programs on the system (like a browser in another VM) the prying eyes of competitors. I made a video of that here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32585333

We have also been working on something called "LIME Is Mediated Emulation" which is a Win64 binary compatibility layer similar to WINE but using vGPUs. You can read about that here:

https://openmdev.io/index.php/LIME_Is_Mediated_Emulation

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This is beautiful, you're doing the Lord's work. I absolutely loathe the current situation of MAC security being so complicated on desktops combined with graphical performance issues in compartmentalization. And surely a lot of folks are also stuck on a certain OS because GPU performance in VMs is terrible. This is very much needed.
Thanks!! We'll do our best to keep improving things for everyone. Hopefully security by compartmentalization folks benefit from our work as well. I'll be going to QubesOS Summit so hopefully there will be more good conversations there. :)