Hi guys, basically as the title says I want to make external SSD drive with Windows to go for the stuff that I really need Windows for unfortunately (proprietary CAD software) but there is no software for making this on Linux that I can find

      • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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        27 days ago

        It should.

        Hell I have hardware dongles I have to deal with that work fine in a VM.

        Are you sure you can’t go the easier route with a VM? Running off USB will be slow and unpleasant, especially with windows.

        What’s the VM issue?

          • dhtseany@lemmy.ml
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            27 days ago

            I have a client running both Solidworks and Fusion 360 in VMWare Workstation with GPU pass-thru enabled, it’s pretty straightforward to setup and the end-users were pleased with it’s performance. If you have USB license keys those usually work as well, just setup the USB device pass-thru.

        • alteredraccoon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          27 days ago

          In my case it’s been hardware acceleration. Sure I can make the adobe suite “run” but it’s not really usable at a professional level without hardware accel.

          • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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            27 days ago

            Single GPU or dual GPU laptop?

            Have you looked at libvf.io?

            virtio-gpu (if you look to the more recent work) has made big strides, but I also wouldn’t consider it “ready”.

              • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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                27 days ago

                Take a look, and consider one more option (I have this setup in one of my workstations).

                A second GPU. Older is fine, I have an older quadro 2000 in one machine thats great for cad, when I load up my VM for AutoCAD architecture, thats the GPU its using.

                I have a few others with quadro 620s in them, the Intel iGPU is accessed shared by being an lxc, the quadros I pass through to the VMs. Some need very different configs, so I only power up the VM when I need it, so they can all use the same passed through GPU.