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[–] alteredraccoon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

In my case it’s been hardware acceleration. Sure I can make the adobe suite “run” but it’s not really usable at a professional level without hardware accel.

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[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Single GPU or dual GPU laptop?

Have you looked at libvf.io?

virtio-gpu (if you look to the more recent work) has made big strides, but I also wouldn't consider it "ready".

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[–] alteredraccoon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Single gpu on my desktop. AMD 7900xt. I haven’t looked at either of those. I’ll give them a browse!

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[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

Take a look, and consider one more option (I have this setup in one of my workstations).

A second GPU. Older is fine, I have an older quadro 2000 in one machine thats great for cad, when I load up my VM for AutoCAD architecture, thats the GPU its using.

I have a few others with quadro 620s in them, the Intel iGPU is accessed shared by being an lxc, the quadros I pass through to the VMs. Some need very different configs, so I only power up the VM when I need it, so they can all use the same passed through GPU.

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[–] alteredraccoon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Ohh I see. You just dedicate another gpu to the VM? That sounds cool. I do have an extra.

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[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 1 point 9 months ago

Yup! Doesnt matter if its running in a reduced capacity by being in a x8 instead of an x16 either (which honestly won't matter as much to performance as you might think anyway), just about any hardware acceleration makes a world of difference with those applications.

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[–] aprehendedmerlin@lemmy.dbzer0.com [S] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

Have you ever tried running Solidworks or Fusion 360 or Ansys or other Autodesk software in a vm? Painful is all I can say

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[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 3 points 9 months ago

Yes.

On my virt host, which I pass the GPU to. I remote into it from my laptop.

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[–] dhtseany@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

I have a client running both Solidworks and Fusion 360 in VMWare Workstation with GPU pass-thru enabled, it's pretty straightforward to setup and the end-users were pleased with it's performance. If you have USB license keys those usually work as well, just setup the USB device pass-thru.