Ah right.
I've never run VMware workstation for Linux (although I have on top of Windows) but I believe it supports GPU passthrough.
Although that might still be pants and to be fair, given you saying you need every drop of performance, even with passthrough, the rest of the virtualisation layer would likely introduce delays that aren't acceptable.
I dual boot some systems between Windows and Linux but most of what I do/need is in Windows and often the utilities I need for work simply don't work well virtualised (occasionally not at all) so I feel the pain
I've never run VMware workstation for Linux (although I have on top of Windows) but I believe it supports GPU passthrough.
Although that might still be pants and to be fair, given you saying you need every drop of performance, even with passthrough, the rest of the virtualisation layer would likely introduce delays that aren't acceptable.
I dual boot some systems between Windows and Linux but most of what I do/need is in Windows and often the utilities I need for work simply don't work well virtualised (occasionally not at all) so I feel the pain