Please tell me more about your setup. Solidworks is the only app that holds me back from full switch to linux. I never tried windows vm in linux, hows the performance? What distro are you using? What vm? Version of windows and SW?
CAD on linux is far behind proffesional tools unfortunatelly. Even SW 2008 is amazing, but FOSS will need another 10-20 years to reach that level Im afraid
With good virtualization, it can be done. This either means multiple GPUs or buying enterprise GPUs. Some consumer cards can be tricked into being recognized as server GPU unlocking SR-IOV or the NVidia thing. This still means the VRAM has to be split making 12-16GB cards beneficial.
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Windows VM + SolidWorks for me, there is no other reasonable way unfortunately.
Please tell me more about your setup. Solidworks is the only app that holds me back from full switch to linux. I never tried windows vm in linux, hows the performance? What distro are you using? What vm? Version of windows and SW?
CAD on linux is far behind proffesional tools unfortunatelly. Even SW 2008 is amazing, but FOSS will need another 10-20 years to reach that level Im afraid
PC specs:
i5 7600
Nvidia Titan Xp (recently upgraded from AMD RX 580, solidworks worked the same)
28GB RAM
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
Virtualbox
Virtualising Windows 10
SolidWorks 2018 (older versions worked fine too, i didn’t try new versions but i dont see why it wouldnt work)
Until recently i dual booted, theres not a big difference in performance.
I recommend putting both Linux and Windows on an SSD
Thank you mate
With good virtualization, it can be done. This either means multiple GPUs or buying enterprise GPUs. Some consumer cards can be tricked into being recognized as server GPU unlocking SR-IOV or the NVidia thing. This still means the VRAM has to be split making 12-16GB cards beneficial.