When intensively using storage. Do I give virtual machine physical memory, network memory or virtual memory?

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As described here:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-3005769/1080p-1440p-super-power-rig.html

I'm building a pretty good PC. This will include nice 1TB SSD, which I think I'll share 500GB to the virtual machine and 500GB to the host which is Linux.

I'm assuming that I'd like high performance, meanwhile not killing the SSD.

Which practice would be best? Should I:
- Give physical partition to Windows? Directly running applications from actual storage?
- Create partition and map virtual network directory there? And accessing all games/programs through "network"?
- Just usually create virtual storage in .vmdk files?
 
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ok the quickest should be to dedicate a partition to he windows instance and another to linux. the other options will have significantly more overhead and te only other option i would recommend would be have an entire drive dedicated to windows and any hdd for the hypervisor
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Yes.


I believe zero. Only that single VM.


Play games, perform rendering and others. A lot of stuff that DO rely on good I/O. And I'm asking for best method out of 3. (long story)
 
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Why is it a question? Does answering this bring you any closer to my answer?
I have my reasons, and that's not part of the question.


Yes.


Why is it a question? Does answering this bring you any closer to my answer?
Ubuntu, Arch, CentOS, Fedora, Slackware, Kali and so on perform the same.
Distro's don't matter, ever since they use same I/O API, and that's not part of the question.


Why is it a question? Does answering this bring you any closer to my answer?
Hypervisor, of course otherwise the entire plan would go for nothing, and that's not part of the question.

Why are you asking so many questions that don't have anything to do with topic?
 
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1. yes it does because you will lose a significant amount of performance running windows on top of linux and im trying to suggest the best possible solution for you to have a viable gaming platform.

3,4 these are kind of together first you do not have to run a hyper-visor to have a instance of windows on top of linux. the distro was to help see what you will be using for this because many different hyper-visors will respond different to gpu pass-through and even the performance of the storage.
 
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Yes. But I exclusively mentioned a virtual machine. In title, post and referred topic too.


But I do need one for IOMMU passhthrough.


It will be most likely Linux Arch, still waiting for Nvidia Pascal X80 and then I'll start building. Even then, the question is not about type of hypervisor to get, it's about storage.
 
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ok the quickest should be to dedicate a partition to he windows instance and another to linux. the other options will have significantly more overhead and te only other option i would recommend would be have an entire drive dedicated to windows and any hdd for the hypervisor
 
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Thanks. So entire physical 500GB of physical partition to Windows.
 
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