Dedicating hardware to virtualized systems

[FederalSpaghetti]

Recently, I've been doing some experimentation with linux distros and virtualization. I've been trying to figure out if any versions of Linux could really meet my needs as an alternative to Windows, but I don't want to deal with rebooting every 15 mins to test the next distro. So I installed VMware and started using that. My problem is that I can't really tell how the OS performs when uninhibited; however, I have extra graphics hardware in my PC that I'm wondering about dedicating to a VM. I have an R9 380 GPU installed that I currently have my monitor plugged into, but I also haven't replaced my A10-7700K yetso it's graphics hardware is just sitting disabled. Is it possible that I could allocate the spare video cores from the A10 to a virtual machine?

 

[cdabc123]

in vmware it may be possible. i know you could do it with intel integrated grapics

 

[FederalSpaghetti]

in vmware it may be possible. i know you could do it with intel integrated grapics

Do you have an idea of the process of doing so?

 

[cdabc123]

does it show the chip under Configuration -> Advanced Settings -> Edit. have you already done this with the r9 380?

 

[Spectre694]

You need to use something like ESXi or Xen or KVM with PCIe passthrough virtualbox and vmware (the basic desktop one) don't let you do that. Unless of course things have changed.

 

[cdabc123]

You need to use something like ESXi or Xen or KVM with PCIe passthrough virtualbox and vmware (the basic desktop one) don't let you do that. Unless of course things have changed.

op could you clarify? my suggestion was based of the assumption you were runing vmware esxi?

 

[FederalSpaghetti]

does it show the chip under Configuration -> Advanced Settings -> Edit. have you already done this with the r9 380?

I haven't tried it with 380. I don't know where Configuration is on VMware. I can access hardware settings for VM's when I right click on their entry, but that window doesn't indicate anything about dedicating physical hardware to the VM.

 

[FederalSpaghetti]

You need to use something like ESXi or Xen or KVM with PCIe passthrough virtualbox and vmware (the basic desktop one) don't let you do that. Unless of course things have changed.

op could you clarify? my suggestion was based of the assumption you were runing vmware esxi?

No I'm using windows as my host. I guess it can't be done. Thanks for trying to help though,

 

[cdabc123]

You need to use something like ESXi or Xen or KVM with PCIe passthrough virtualbox and vmware (the basic desktop one) don't let you do that. Unless of course things have changed.

op could you clarify? my suggestion was based of the assumption you were runing vmware esxi?

No I'm using windows as my host. I guess it can't be done. Thanks for trying to help though,

if you have experience with linux try proxmox its free and can do everything you want

 

[FederalSpaghetti]

You need to use something like ESXi or Xen or KVM with PCIe passthrough virtualbox and vmware (the basic desktop one) don't let you do that. Unless of course things have changed.

op could you clarify? my suggestion was based of the assumption you were runing vmware esxi?

No I'm using windows as my host. I guess it can't be done. Thanks for trying to help though,

if you have experience with linux try proxmox its free and can do everything you want

I guess I'll give that a shot.

 

[cdabc123]

let me know if you need any help with it i have doe this before on it