Setting up Virtual Machines

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I'm planning on setting up 1-2 VMs for multi-clienting gaming purposes. I plan to use VMware Player and am deciding between windows 7 or 8. I don't need anything fancy, just that the games run smoothly. My question is, which OS is a better choice in terms of resource usage and overall performance? Should I use my 250GB SSD or my 1TB HDD for this?

Also, if anyone has experience with this or has any advice to make this set up quick and smooth, I'd greatly appreciate it!

Specs: i5-4690k, GTX 970, 8GB RAM, Windows 8.1

Thanks!
 
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8 is 'slightly' faster, but you probably wont notice the difference.

In regards to gaming in a VM, what games are you planning on running? The response time in a VM isn't the issue, it's the near non-existent 3d support.

The other issue I should bring up is that the K series of Intel processors lack some of the instruction sets that Virtual Machines use (VT-d) for direct IO access,

if you're looking at doing a multi-user setup for gaming, go with Windows 7 and use SoftXpand: http://www.miniframe.com/technology/softxpand.html . Unfortunately, the program doesn't have windows 8 support yet.
 
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It sound as if you are planning running more than one copy of a game at the same time. As has already been said, if the game in question is at all graphics intensive then you will be disappointed with one copy running in a VM. With multiple copies running in more than one VM you will be devastated.

The OS is pretty irrelevant, but 8.1 has been tested as having the best overall performance in games. But it's only a marginal increase.
 
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