But this requires a windows license.
That's always the annoying bit.
I finally decided that using two PCs and a KVM switch is the most amenable approach: a low-power one to run my day-to-day Unix desktop stuff and a bigger uglier Windows-based PC for games. Of course the expected power savings never happened as the Windows PC stays on pretty much permanently as it's so slow to boot and login. As someone who's used virtual machines a lot in the past (starting with VM on an IBM mainframe) the purist in me objects, but it's easier this way, especially as I periodically have to reach for the reset button on the Windows box.
