I'm looking at building a new box for a bunch of VMs and would love to have it be able to do gaming as well. I'm wondering if either ESXi or Hyper-V for a Windows 8.1 VM and then used that for gaming? I've read about PCI pass through as well as Intel GVT and I was wondering if those were applicable here. The box will only be accessed by me via one monitor or maybe two monitors.
I'll be having the following VMs running probably at all times and am willing to buy a cheaper video card for them if needed. Or could I use a CPU that has a GPU?
2 x Windows 8.1
1 x Free BSD (probably for Pfsense)
1 x Ubuntu
1 x Cent
2 x Windows 2012 RS
1 x Something for ZFS
I'll be using either a Xeon e3-v3, e5-v3, Haswell-E, or Skylake processor. The idea is to run the VMs off of an Intel 750 SSD. I'll also have at least 32GB of ram. For the video card I was thinking of an Nvidia 970 / 980 unless one of the workstation cards is required for what I want?
I'll be having the following VMs running probably at all times and am willing to buy a cheaper video card for them if needed. Or could I use a CPU that has a GPU?
2 x Windows 8.1
1 x Free BSD (probably for Pfsense)
1 x Ubuntu
1 x Cent
2 x Windows 2012 RS
1 x Something for ZFS
I'll be using either a Xeon e3-v3, e5-v3, Haswell-E, or Skylake processor. The idea is to run the VMs off of an Intel 750 SSD. I'll also have at least 32GB of ram. For the video card I was thinking of an Nvidia 970 / 980 unless one of the workstation cards is required for what I want?