Hi guys, basically as the title says I want to make external SSD drive with "Windows to Go" for the stuff that I really need Windows for unfortunately (proprietary CAD software) but there is no software for making this on Linux that I can find

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[–] 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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  • [–] 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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  • [–] 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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