What is the best Windows virtualization system to use on Linux for gaming?

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Greetings.
In light of recent events, I'm thinking about moving to Linux. However, there is no desire to completely abandon the games. Are there decent virtualization methods to run serious games without major performance drops. Would be nice to be able to launch new stuff, maybe DX12 in the future.
Thank you.

Answer 1

It is better to put two systems. Playing in a virtual machine is a dubious idea, especially in resource-intensive modern games.

Answer 2

I will be banal, but wine (PlayOnLinux voiced above - gives extended functionality, but this is the same wine). However, most AAA games will not work under wine (as my personal experience shows). For such games, I use VGA-passthrought (as mentioned above. For convenience, you can throw a USB into the VM and use KVM Switch.
And yes, I’m happy with the trend direction - lately even AAA games have been ported to Linux (Thanks to Steam!)

Answer 3

Put 2 systems and do not suffer. I say this as Linux *b with almost a decade of experience. You won't be able to play modern windows-only.

Answer 4

I have kubuntu 14.04 + windows 7 installed in parallel on the same SSD.
The flight is excellent.

Answer 5

VirtualBox does a great job.
Naturally, the guest OS is Linux, I use them without a GUI.
Deploy them via vagrant + ansible.

Answer 6

Well, the advisers above.
If the PC supports VT-d / APP-V and there are several video cards (including the built-in one), then after small dances you can run Windows in a virtual machine with a direct GPU forwarding into it, the performance drawdown is minimal.
Hypervisors with support: KVM, VirtualBox, Xen (it has a limited list of supported cards ).
How-to on the Internet in large numbers.

Answer 7

Modernized Wine for games :) - PlayOnLinux is
strange that no one mentioned it here

Answer 8

A lot of modern games work fine on Linux without any virtual machines and dances with a tambourine

Answer 9

Although Ubuntu has Steam, there is nothing special to play.
CS:GO
Dota2
Well, you can still launch CIV5 and Fallout 1.
But consider that you will have to buy all the games at horse prices. Or wait for a sale.
But sometimes you yearn for old school games. That's when the thought comes, maybe well, what for this ubuntu :) You
can play under the vine, but this is a dubious pleasure.
in the same Ubuntu, you can install qemu-kvm, and run on it, but the FPS will suffer.

Answer 10

Depending on what you play, what is native, you can see in the same incentive, what is launched through wine, the list of supported games is on the site https://appdb.winehq.org/.
Personally, I play lol, it started through wine and gives decent Fps, no problems.