iATKOS | United Kingdom

Here's my usage scenario:

I have a dual-boot machine running Windows 10 on one SSD and MacOS Mojave on another. 90% of the time I turn on my PC I let it boot into MacOS because that's the OS I feel most comfortable with/has access to all my calendars, contacts, mail etc. I also edit a lot of videos in Adobe Premeire.

But 10% of the time I want to play games on Windows, including VR via Oculus and SteamVR. I hate the hassle/time spent rebooting from one OS to another, and so I'm wondering if there's any option for me to run both systems on one OS via virtualisation.

Now as I understand it, I will be losing performance via virtualisation because obviously it has to essentially run both OSs at the same time, and seeing as my most high-usage scenario is probably gaming/VR, it would make most sense to run MacOS on a VM inside of Windows 10. I've also heard I might need a separate GPU in order to do this, but I just so happen to have upgraded mine recently and have the old one in my cupboard.

So my questions are:

• Given my usage scenario, should I run MacOS inside Windows instead of dual-booting?
• If so, is there a way I could use my existing MacOS installation on SSD #2 to run as a virtual machine in Windows on SSD#1?
• I'm guessing there would be ZERO possibility of running Windows 10 in a VM on MacOS and still hoping to get decent performance for things like gaming/virtual reality, right?
• If I then wanted to do video editing in Adobe Premiere, would I see a major performance hit trying to do something like that in MacOS via a VM running on Windows? Would it make much more sense to do anything more system-intensive than simply browsing in Chrome or watching Netflix in Windows instead of in a virtualised MacOS? I can of course use Adobe Premiere on Windows instead of Mac but prefer using it on Mac as I get to use my Magic Mouse's gestures which don't seem to work on Windows....

I'd really appreciate some advice on this as I feel like there must be a simple way to make switching back and forth between my Windows and MacOS drives faster than simply rebooting my PC every time I want to play Doom.....