I have a server PC connected to a big screen in our living room, running a native installation of Windows 7 Media Center for TV, photos, etc. My kids are growing up so there is currently an increasing number of games being installed on this system, threatening its stability.
I would like to separate the games into a Gaming VM. I also have some other VMs (web server etc) that run headless or are connected to through RDP, but these have no special requirements.
Is Workstation a good fit for this scenario, specifically:
- Will it allow the Gaming VM use the GPU without losing too much performance?
- Does the VM console allow the Gaming VM to run fullscreen even when the game runs in a lower resolution than the host?
- Can my "server" VMs (web server etc) start and stop (or hibernate) automatically when the host starts and stops?
Thanks
Mike