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Re:Windows 10 Review by glogla on Thursday August 27, 2015 @04:09AM (#10128163)
You can, but only on AMD GPUs. Nvidia GPUs have this disable unless you buy very expensive "cloud" model.
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Re:Windows 10 Review by dale-cooper on Thursday August 27, 2015 @06:57AM (#10128625)
Not true, you can work around this. I'm running a 970 gtx in a vm. See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=162768
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Re:Windows 10 Review by otis_inf on Thursday August 27, 2015 @06:50AM (#10128600)
Yeah I ran into that wall 2 weeks ago. I tried to switch to Linux for the host and run my Windows 8 VMs in VMWare on Mint. After fighting with the nvidia drivers at install for a bit I got it working but VMWare using dual monitors is super slow on nvidia (780 here) in mint: the windows in the guest VM were drawn as if it was done by a single core on half the speed, instead of on the GPU. Single monitor, no problem.

Had to roll back to windows for the host to make the VMs work nicely. A bummer, considering moving away from Windows takes that first step and I now have to stick around for longer. Perhaps next year...

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