Which VM hypervisor for Windows apps needing GPU ?

[ImayBEtheROBOT]

Hiii to Linux community !

2 months ago, I finally gave up Win11 for Linux (Kubuntu)
Actually, I still have Win11 in dualboot to use some non-Linux software (mainly Solidworks & Fusion360). But I'm not satisfied with this, as Linux's apps are unavailable when I use Win11.
So instead, I'm looking for installing Win11 as a guest OS in a virtual machine.

Problem is : what VM hypervisor should I use ?
I heard about, VirtualBox, VirtualBox Manager (already installed on Kubuntu), VMware, KVM, ... But don't know wich one to choose.

My laptop is an Asus Vivobook with i7 12700h, RTX 4060, 16gb RAM (I know, not the most Linux-friendly ... )
Solidworks & Fusion360 are heavy 3D modeling softwares, so I assume the VM need access to my dedicated GPU

Can you give me some advices ? Thanks !

 

[GatorsFan]

Personally I use Oracle VirtualBox - VirtualBox Manager (Kubuntu) is the graphical user interface (GUI) for Oracle VirtualBox but it may not be the latest version

Downloads – Oracle VirtualBox

www.virtualbox.org

 

[KGIII]

Personally I use Oracle VirtualBox

^THIS

(Just to indicate that others agree with this method.)

 

[f33dm3bits]

If those apps need gpu acceleration than Virtualbox isn't going to cut it because you would need to pass-through your gpu to a vm. Meaning you would need two gpu's one for your host the second gpu to passthrough to your vm. Virtualbox doesn't support pci passthroughs anymore, so you would have to go with something like QEMU/KVM.

 

[KGIII]

If those apps need gpu acceleration than Virtualbox isn't going to cut it because you would need to pass-through your gpu to a vm. Meaning you would need two gpu's one for your host the second gpu to passthrough to your vm. Virtualbox doesn't support pci passthroughs anymore, so you would have to go with something like QEMU/KVM.

Ugh... I did not know that. Thanks. It's not even an option in the free offerings from VMWare, according to Google.

 

[lomszz]

KVM is better if you need gpu passthrough or basically any passthrough. kvm also brings a lot faster performance compared to virtualbox of course depending a lot on your hardware specs too.

 

[ImayBEtheROBOT]

Thanks you all for your answers
I didn't even know that GPU passthrough would requires 2 physical GPUs ... glad I also have an iGPU

Yeah I suspected KVM being the only real solution...
Honestly I was hoping for something else : from what I saw on Internet it seems AWFUL to setup.
I already feel the pain of the coming hours of troubleshooting

Thanks again