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I needed a windows host with a windows vm because it was the easiest solution. If I had to install a windows vm anyways then I'd just reinstall Windows.

Two reasons. I want(ed) to keep Windows 10 as my host and also that would require having 2 dedicated GPUs for each VM. I have access to that many but it would defeat the purpose. I ended up just reinstalling Windows 10 and this whole project is pretty much pointless. I did find out that I could've used Hyper V with Windows Server 2016 and a Grid enabled Nvidia card, which I have access to, but that would've required me driving to my office to pickup a P5000.

Yes, precisely. My whole purpose of this project was the retain Windows 10 as a Host (Or at the very least a VM) and to have a(nother) Windows VM with PCI passthrough. I've come to realize that the only way I can have Windows run a Windows VM would be to use Windows Server 2016 as a host. This isn't really ideal, for a lot of reasons. I might be able to just run my current bare-metal Windows 10 install in unRaid as a VM and leave it at that, as that might serve the purpose I was looking for in running Windows in a VM. What, if any, are the limitations that running in a VM 100% of the time bring about?

One thing I might have forgotten to add is that I want to essentially use Windows 10 as my host and have my guest Windows 10 run within a window. Looking glass allows this but only with Linux as the host OS. Knowing that unRaid is Linux based, would I be able to run looking glass on unRaid and pass the client window to one of my Windows 10 VMs?

Sounds promising but iirc I read somewhere that it doesn't work with a consumer Nvidia card Edit: I'm finding it increasingly difficult to figure out how to get Looking Glass to run. I'm a total newbie to VMs in general. Maybe I should've pointed that out.

When you say that I am going to use only one VM at a time, does that mean I can't access my headless VM from within my windows vm? I plan to use something like steam in house streaming for rdp because of the performance that solution normally has. In this scenario my windows vm would be sharing power with the headless VM.

I need to have a second windows vm that I can reinstall often and run within a virtualized os drive.

I had another idea. Can I run the VM headless and use an rdp to remote into it? If I did that would that let me do what I want? All the while could I use 1 powerful GPU and 1 GPU for unraid or would I need a total of three gpus, one for unraid, one for my main windows vm, and another for the other headless VM?

Hello all, I have a very specific need for a Windows 10 VM that allows GPU passthrough, one that can be opened however within a window rather than on a separate monitor, and all while running the unRaid server on my main PC. Basically I want to do what other workstation rather than sever focused programs would do all while having near bare-metal performance. Is this possible? I'm figuring that it should be but I can't wrap my head around how to do it. I have a rather involved Windows 10 install on my computer currently that I cannot lose, so that's one of the reasons I haven't just dived into the whole idea of this yet. On an important note I guess, is that I have 2 graphics cards, 1 gtx 980 and 1 gtx 1080ti, and 4 monitors. 1 of which is hooked up to the 980 exclusively. I think that one solution would be to flip my graphics card setup to be my 1080ti on my main monitor with the other 3 on the 980, run 2 Windows 10 VMs, share my 2 ssd's and 1 hdd between them both, and use synergy to move my mouse between them. That sounds like a working idea but causes a few complications, namely one large one: I won't be able to move windows across the screens like I would normally. I have a 3 + 1 monitor array and not being able to do this would just kill it for me. So back to the VM via VNC. Does this inherit any performance problems or latency? I'm certain what I want in doable and probably isn't that unusual, but I just can't figure it out. How do I do it all guys?