

On an old Threadripper 1920X machine with sufficient memory I have even done 2 Windows machines simultaneously, both with dedicated GPUs, plus a third one for the Linux host.Īnyway, I have this question to the knowledgable audience here - what is the proper way to license Windows 10 for use in a VM? Do the cheap OEM keys that are being advertised so often by the tech-tubers work for a VM installation?

With GPU passthrough I can have close to native performance. Generally, I prefer to go in the other direction - run Windows in VM hosted on a Linux machine. But these are more for command-line jockeys like myself. Cygwin more so, because it has proper terminal window, where select is copy and middle click is paste. With WSL2 you are bound to have Hyper-V activated which precludes using any other hypervisor.Īlso, I find both Cygwin and WSL1 very usefull.

Installation is also far easier.įrankly, I prefer to install Linux manually in a hypervisor of my choosing, whichi is never Hyper-V. Andrep74 said:I’m surprised you didn’t at least mention WSL2, which works really well under Windows 10 and 11.
