@mh thanks! KVM, i'll check it out. yeah, i noticed VMware and virtualBox both don't utilize the on board GPU so looking to try others that can get around this.
definitley would host in linux, its far less resource intensive and i take it even harder for something infected in a win10 VM to breach to a linux host?
btw, got 8 cores on this machine and 16GB of ram. lets say KVM handles the GPU no problem, there a minimum resource to leave untapped, like 1 core and 1GB of RAM?