Which hypervisor to choose for home VDI?

Question

VMware

Good afternoon! I was puzzled by such a thought
There is a system unit:
Mat. board - Asus Z87
Processor Core I7 4770
RAM -16 gig DDR3 (possible to add)
Video card - GeForce GTX760
SSD - 128Gb
HDD - 1Tb
Tasks that this computer performs:
Surfing the Internet
watching YouTube
games (rarely, only when I come from a business trip)
Soft saying it's inappropriate...
The computer is alone at home, my wife + children occupy it and I don’t have enough time to test Unetlab and sometimes I want to play. Children are growing up and soon they will also need a PC for homework, to play, I want to tinker with UnetLab, deploy a small domain, and you never know what else your hands will get to. To my "want" it is worth adding remote access via the Internet (it seems to have been solved by ddns + registered ports on the TP-Link 741 router)

So I thought about the hypervisor + thin clients like lenovo ideacentre stick
Now the questions are:
1. Which hypervisor? After reading the Internet, I think it will be XenServer, since there are articles on Habré confirming the forwarding of a regular video card (not GRID) into a virtual machine.
1.1 Is XenServer correct? They also have XenDesktop but I don't understand how exactly it differs. I am generally confused in their products, I will be grateful for a clear explanation.
2. Will it be possible in the future to organize a connection from thin clients to Wirth. machines for the purpose of playing (suppose The Witcher 3).
3. What pitfalls am I missing?

Thank you all!

Answer 1

I made a similar system at home. The computer is a little more powerful than yours. I put ESXI on a flash drive. Forwarding the video card radeon r9 270x was easy, installed Windows 10. The performance of the video card remains the same, well, maybe 5% is lost. No one will ever notice if, not to say that this is work in a virtual machine. Everything is like on real hardware. I made a second VM, installed a 2nd discrete low-power video card and connected it to the TV with a cable, installed OpenElec, in general, watching movies became comfortable. Yes, I forgot, I had to buy a second USB controller and also forward it to OpenElec to connect the remote control, keyboard, mouse.
Then I installed the 3rd VM, put Xpenology there, forwarded 3 HDDs of 2TB each. The system has become 3in1.
So you can spawn a lot of VMs, but in order to forward the hardware, you must first connect it, and PCI-E slots are limited.
The system worked stably for 1.5 years. Then for some reason I dismantled this whole structure, I don’t remember why. Installed Windows on bare metal. Now xpenology is spinning on Hyper-V, and for the media player I use an android set-top box (TV without smart)
PS There, in my opinion (I don’t remember exactly), VT-d and EPT are needed in the processor, and then also include them in the BIOS not forget.
An external network card from Intel is also very desirable, which is why I say that I lacked PCI slots.
I remembered why I removed the hypervisor. From some point, problems with the standby mode began, the monitor went out and it was not possible to exit the standby mode. I had to remotely enter the hypervisor console and reboot it, or stupidly with the reset button when I was too lazy to get into the console from the laptop. I sinned against the hypervisor, I was just sure of it. Therefore, I demolished everything and installed Windows regularly. Imagine my surprise when everything happened again. It turned out that the second small video card was to blame, everything was from it. She came back shorter. I had to take it out of the computer and everything became normal, but the second time I was too lazy to fence. Moreover, xpenology works great on any hypervisor, and a friend took a simple prefix, then bought a normal one.
In general, it is very easy to test ESXI, install it on a USB flash drive, and boot from it (by the way, a standard installation) and click what is forwarded there, what is not forwarded. And then already to draw conclusions whether it is necessary for you.

Answer 2

I join the speaker above. Virtual for games - the idea is not a fountain. Although, with direct forwarding of the video card - well, you can play something not very powerful.
It is also not very clear why thin clients are needed. Now thin clients are such that they can solve routine tasks quite independently, so make it just a terminal for a virtual machine ... Well, in general, the profit, in my opinion, is not obvious. In addition, you still need a monitor-keyboard-mouse, i.e. complete workplace. Connecting this IdeaStick to a TV is good for viewing photos or videos, but for work it's hell and waste, TVs still lag behind monitors in terms of image clarity. Is that some kind of TV set 4k, but it will be more expensive than a monitor in any way :-)
As a platform for experiments, I would put some kind of HP Microserver box or just build a system for virtualization on a Mini-ITX in a thermaltake core v1 case.

Answer 3

I guess I'm a pervert at heart, so I invent)

Answer 4

As I understand it, nothing is impossible)
https://habrahabr.ru/post/137327/
P.S. I just skimmed through the article, maybe it won't help you in any
way. By the way, maybe this option will suit you - www.ibik.ru/ru ?