I DO NOT expect 'bare metal' performance from a Windows 10 guest on my Manjaro box. So I built a PC.Ī friend who loves Blender recommended Manjaro so here I am.

I need to do LOTS of 3D rendering work and my Macbooks aren't going to cut it. I'm currently still using a 2012 Macbook that runs Windows XP, 7, and 10 guests with Parallels at reasonable (not laggy) speeds. I've built Debian boxes for clients that run Windows 7 guests in VirtualBox. After reading through a number of different forums, I feel like I'm not alone so I'll go into some detail in case this thread ends up helping others. I've done a LOT of searching and reading and watching videos, and I feel like I'm close but I just can't get there. Like Photoshop or Adobe XD to open files the designer sends to me, or my digital-signature program for the yearly government fiscal statements.I'm REALLY struggling to get 3D acceleration working in QEMU/KVM. I usually run windows bare metal when needing the full video performance like for gaming (although I didn’t need to do that for about two years now), or when in encounter issues forwarding peripherals and VM when needing a Windows-only program for work.

The advantage of running the VM from bare metal SSD is that there is no speed penalty for disk access. Windows doesn’t protest in being presented with different hardware in VM and bare-metal mode. Now I can launch my Windows instance from GRUB or as a VM from Linux. Instead of creating a virtual drive for a Windows guest VM, I used pass-through of a real partition that already has Windows installed. Now here comes a neat trick I tried and was rewarded with even more speed and flexibility: I was flabbergasted to see I can run the machine in seamless full-screen mode and I couldn’t tell the difference.

But I just tested a Windows 10 on my virt-manager and it’s almost near to a bare-metal system.

Virtualbox vs qemu performance