Gaming system with WHS virtual machine as guest

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sheltem

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Has anyone built a gaming machine with a guest VM running full time? I'm planning out the following setup:
- Intel CPU with 4 or 6 cores
- 16gb of RAM
- 4-5 storage drives (1.5tb's and 2tb) running Windows Home Server 2010
- SSD for HOST OS
- Dedicated hard drive for games

The host OS would handle games, while the Guest VM would run WHS 24/7. The WHS VM would handle video media streaming and other general downloading duties.

Some issues that come to mind for me are:
- Is the host OS smart enough to keep the VM on one core, while leaving the others open?
- While I am physically segmenting VM storage from the host OS, will there still be storage I/O performance issues?

Is this setup practical or would it impact gaming performance too much?
 
Would you normally always leave your gaming machine powered on? It would probably use a lot of juice.

Don't know if WHS would impact gaming (likely some, at least), but you can run WHS just fine on pretty low-spec hardware. My virtual WHS is running great on 1GB of RAM and a single virtual CPU. Fast enough, but I ONLY use it for backups.
 
during setup of the VM you tell it how many core it will give to the guest os and how much ram.
 
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