Passthrough the hard disk (having Linux installation) directly to the VM.The challenge here is booting from an actual hard disk instead of a virtual hard disk. I already had a Windows 10 Professional version so, the choice of hypervisor was easy, as this particular version of Windows comes with Hyper-V. So summarizing the above, I wanted to boot the already existing Linux installation I had on a different SSD as a guest VM in windows. I am also lazy and found it very hard to switch off a running OS and switch to the other one frequently. If I were to somehow manage, to virtualize the existing Linux installation I had, the CPU I bought wouldn’t even break sweat handling both my OSes at the same time. Even then, I wasn’t ready to accept this tradeoff when I had a processor that was more than capable of handling both of these OSes at the same time. To solve this issue, I changed the boot order to set the Linux OS to boot by default. Whenever I used to game, my Twitter crawls and other services in Linux, were effectively shut down. I used Linux for Productivity and Windows mostly gaming as is the custom.Īfter some time, I realized this arrangement came with a very obvious drawback. I had my Twitter crawls set up on it and other services set up and working on it.

I already had an SSD from a previous build that had the Linux OS installed and configured. I configured the system to run Windows and Linux (PopOS) using dual booting. I assembled the PC and it was blazing fast. I bought the latest and greatest processor (Ryzen 3900x - 12 Core 24 Threads) from AMD and 32 GB of RAM for a no-compromises experience. Some days back I assembled a top of the line(ish) workstation for working on hobby projects and gaming. Running Native Linux install as a VM using HyperV

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