I’m considering to switch to Proxmox for my main PC, run a Windows VM on top and passthrough the GPU to play games. However, I heard anti-cheates aren’t that friendly to VMs. Had anyone tried this? Thanks.

  • dotCafe@lemmy.zip
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    10 months ago

    I’m in the planning stages of a build that will be essentially this, a proxmox build that’ll include my NAS with several hard drives (running in one VM), all my docker containers (another VM) and Linux and Windows vms with passthrough that I can spin up temporarily for games.

    I think I can get the Windows VM in a place where I can also restart the whole machine and boot in natively, as a fallback for games with aggressive anti cheats that won’t allow VMs, which I don’t think I’ll be playing much of anyway.

    To answer your question, it really would be best to check game by game if the anti cheat allows VMs.

    • curvy_crabgrass598@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      How can you boot natively to a proxmox VM? I’m guessing you’d have to keep a whole separate physical drive and pass through the whole drive to the windows VM or boot to that drive natively?

    • umami_wasabi@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      10 months ago

      That’s kind of my plan too, without the native boot. I tried dual boot and found myself using Windows more than I should.

      I’m planning to have the Windows VM running the game and I use Parsec/Moonlight from a Linux VM to game on.

      I did looked online about EAC and BattleEye, both are popular and not that VM friendly, but I heard some say it’s fine. Information conflicts and I don’t want to test the water and got myself banned. Elite and Starfield doesn’t know if they support VM or not.