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What about graphics acceleration? Does it need gpu pass through?
Seems to me like GPU acceleration should be supported. Libvirt probably requires dedicated passthrough or sophisticated methods like SR-IOV.
I know there are ways you can tailor your VM to use the hardware, but am no expert.
I'm positive it has the same issues as any other Windows VM setup. If you've got two GPUs, you can probably pass one of them through to the VM and get good graphical performance.
I wish the virtio-gpu stuff hadn't died on Windows...
EDIT: It might not be dead? That's cool if so.