Moving APv2 to a VM?

[pipet]

I'm joining the ranks of people moving away from Windows and onto Linux. I just installed Linux Mint (dual boot so far) and most things are working to my satisfaction. The biggest impediment to completely ditching Windows is a decent photo editor. Gimp 3.0 is around the corner, but I'd much prefer to stick with Affinity Photo. But getting that to run under Wine etc. doesn't seem to be very straightforward and even if it does run, there appear to be various issues.

Which leaves a virtual machine with Win10 and AP as the most viable alternative, IHMO. But VirtualBox doesn't have very good GPU support, which leaves VMWare or Qemu. Is one preferable over the other when comes to GPU support and running AP? What kind of performance impact can I expect when running AP in a VM with vGPU (I have 64GB of RAM available and could dedicate half of that to the VM, I also have an RTX3070)?

Another concern is software registration. I'd like to keep the VM completely isolated from the internet (and just allow LAN access). But as of v2 AP seems to require internet access, at least for the initial registration. Is there a way around this?

[Lucien48Crow]

5 hours ago, pipet said:

I'm joining the ranks of people moving away from Windows and onto Linux. I just installed Linux Mint (dual boot so far) and most things are working to my satisfaction. The biggest impediment to completely ditching Windows is a decent photo editor. Gimp 3.0 is around the corner, but I'd much prefer to stick with Affinity Photo. But getting that to run under Wine etc. doesn't seem to be very straightforward and even if it does run, there appear to be various issues.

Which leaves a virtual machine with Win10 and AP as the most viable alternative, IHMO. But VirtualBox doesn't have very good GPU support, which leaves VMWare or Qemu. Is one preferable over the other when comes to GPU support and running AP? What kind of performance impact can I expect when running AP in a VM with vGPU (I have 64GB of RAM available and could dedicate half of that to the VM, I also have an RTX3070)?

Another concern is software registration. I'd like to keep the VM completely isolated from the internet (and just allow LAN access). But as of v2 AP seems to require internet access, at least for the initial registration. Is there a way around this?

For isolation, use a firewall to block the internet, allowing temporary access to activate the AP. It is not possible to bypass online registration legally.