Virtual workstation as a daily computer
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Fedora host runs qemu/KVM with libvirt/virt-manager and either VFIO/pci-stub to pass a GTX 960 and whole SSDs into a Windows VM; hardware is a 1st‑gen Core i5, 12 GB RAM, 250/512 GB SSDs, setup takes about 2–3 hours. Cinebench scores drop from ~440 bare to 365 in the VM (~20–25% loss), 3DMark Firestrike shows ~4–5% GPU loss, random SSD I/O and some Windows GPU workloads crash without extra libvirt edits, and NVIDIA consumer drivers require a vBIOS passthrough workaround; gaming is usable but has input and fullscreen caveats.
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