VMWARE - running servers as guests on Win8 host

Tony Williams · 23 Feb 2014 at 01:05

How good is hardware acceleration and emulation (If that is rgight with VMWARE?)? ie, if ESXi is bare metal with 3-4 VMs ontop *running 89% as good *bar gaming'>>) then how is running serversm etc ontop of a plastic setup? *ie, Windows 8.1 MAN-IN0T. Could I idle/run some VM's and just game by closing (if needs>O

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My main Q was BITCOIN MINING under CAM?

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BlizzardX · 23 Feb 2014 at 04:49

You should be perfectly fine running Linux installs on Windows 8 Hyper-V as long as you have sufficient resources (vcpu and memory). Windows servers I don't believe will install though.

One thing you will not get is pci-passthrough on a Hyper-v setup, that only works with Xen, Xenserver and ESXi (I'm not sure about GPU passthrough for mining in ESXi though).

Chris

Burnsy2023 · 24 Feb 2014 at 12:59

I have no idea what the question is.

Tony Williams · 25 Feb 2014 at 21:40

Can I do highly performing taskes like GPU mining in a guest OS in VMWARE? My Winows I have having trouble with in the host ios. Heh

m4cc45 · 25 Feb 2014 at 21:52

It won't be anywhere near as good. VMware uses it's own graphics driver.

I'd fix whatever issue you're having with Windows if you want to do GPU based mining.

M.