How to combine server and game roles on one computer at the same time?

Question

Hyper-V

Let's say I want to learn Windows Server 2016, but I don't want to spend money on courses and prefer to learn from books, online articles, and video tutorials. I install WinServer on my home computer and simulate situations on it that can take place in a real enterprise: for example, Hyper-V with two client machines and a domain. Learning, of course, is very commendable, but the home computer continues to be a home computer, and in between self-education, I do all sorts of household chores on it: I watch movies and play games. But then it turns out that you can only do server business on the server, you won’t be able to play, because the video card drivers for Windows 10 are not installed on Windows Server 2016, some video codecs are not installed either. It turns out that I need two computers: one for games and movies, and the second is a training server? Or is it still possible to combine server and game roles on the same computer at the same time?

Answer 1

Try hosting services.
RUVDS gives out servers with a test period for 3 days, I trained like this with ftp raising

Answer 2

I tried to run Hyper-V on Windows 10 and it turned out to be very inconvenient, and some things are not possible at all. For example, if my monitor resolution is 1920x1080, then in the Hyper-V manager window the screen size of the virtual machine will also be 1920x1080 without the ability to reduce it, there is also no possibility to connect to the virtual machine screen via VNC, as it is possible in VMware Workstation, there are also no other options , which VMware Workstation, KVM and other hypervisors have, for example, the ability to forward a USB flash drive to a VM as a physical device or make the VM be created automatically by a script with a pre-described configuration. It seems that I heard that for professional tasks such as the latter there is System Center Virtual Machine Manager, but again it only works on the server.

Everything is decided.
Create generation 2 virtual machines, where you can switch to advanced mode and you can watch in full screen.
By the way, you need to connect via RDP :) You
can also transfer flash drives, disks, sound through it
Scripting
https://docs.microsoft.com/ru-ru/virtualization/hy...

Answer 3

Well, there are several options:
1. Dualbut. You need a server system - boot from it, you need a game system - from it. Of the minuses - it is inconvenient to reboot every time, even if the system is on an SSD.
2. You can install either a game or server OS in a virtual machine (Hyper-V (in the server version of Windows, you can add VK Remote-FX, with it the guest has access to video acceleration, but it works slower and noticeably slower than on native hardware), VmWare , VirtualBox). Of the minuses - problems with the performance of the guest OS.
3. Nested virtualization - i.e. installation on bare metal Xen/KVM/ESXi with subsequent forwarding of the video card to the gaming guest system. At the same time, the Server Windows will be running in another virtual machine. Of the minuses - to understand the intricacies of setting up Linux, plus VK forwarding does not start on any hardware, but it looks epic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjlmWHJiEug
article how to configure using ProxMox as an example https://habr.com /ru/post/437598/
4. Lease of remote servers via the network. Of the minuses - it costs money
5. Installing Server Windows as a host, and for games use services like https://gfn.ru or there is a video broadcast in the incentive. Of the minuses - it costs money
6. Buying a second low-power PC for a server, you can use it. Cons - costs money