Nvidia GTX 1070 Virtual GPU w/ i5-6600k

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I love Linux but don’t use it on my desktop because of my setup and Windows games. I like using Ubuntu Cinnamon and Mate. I want to see if it’s possible to do a virtual GPU with Windows 10 VM using VirtualBox with my setup and hardware? I don’t know where to start.

Specs

• i5-6600K Skylake
• Nvidia GTX 1070
• 3x LG 25" Ultrawide Monitors - Res Each 2560x1080

[Adubs]

To quickly answer your question, no. not with virtualbox. It is possible though with your setup using the IGPU for linux and passing the GPU to windows. I wouldnt use virtualbox to do this though. Its not very stable that way.

I would probably start here:

Play games in Windows on Linux! PCI passthrough quick guide

Hello all! I am Gray from GrayWolfTech. I make videos on Linux and other interesting technology. Wendell has given me permission to post my written guides here for my videos. This is great for two reasons: First it helps grow this community and second my videos reach a wider audience to share what I have learned. I look forward to posting all my guides and videos here, and I am more than happy to answer any questions about the guide you may have. – Onward! – Now it’s time for one of the coolest and more advanced capabilities of Linux. KVM, or kernel virtual machines. We are going to go through step by step, how to setup PCI pass-through to a Windows virtual machine on a Debian host to play games! Thanks to Redhat, KVM can run virtual machines with almost bare metal performance and supports a wide variety of other neat features. The one we are going to focus on in this video is of course, PCI pass-through. The process of allowing a virtual machine full access to a PCI express graphics card for gaming, CAD, or 3D rendering. With this neat capability, you can run Linux as your host OS, and then pass your GPU (or one of your GPUs if you have multiple) to a virtual machine to play games. Let’s go over the requirements for this project: First and most important, you should backup any data you have on your PC. If you know what you are doing then you will not lose anything, but accidentally selecting the wrong drive when installing can lead you to be very sad when you figure out the drive you wiped had all your really good porn on it. Second, this process will take time. For someone who is an experienced Linux user it should take about 20 minutes (not counting time to install Debian or recompile the kernel). For someone who is new it might take longer. Make sure you allow yourself an entire afternoon or a good chunk of 4-5 hours where you could potentially not have a working PC. Third, follow the instructions I lay out in the video. I will answer questions down belo…

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virtual GPU

Is there a way to disable the GPU in Linux when using Windows VM, then re-enabling it back in Linux once done?

[Adubs]

AFAIK this isnt possible yet. I could be wrong. There is some limited 3d accell in virtual box with guest additions and some addons but I doubt this will get you anywhere near a playable game. Virtual box is nice because it just works on most hardware for general use but for more intensive stuff its like using a multitool for building a house.