You may need a video card (GPU) in a virtual machine for tasks like OpenGL, Direct3D, and CUDA. In that case, we usually use an emulated video card, which is not as good of a performer as a dedicated ...
Some software won't run properly in a VM, even on Apple hardware. The App Store running in a VM on my Mac Pro won't let me download Final Cut or Motion, for example, because it doesn't recognize the ...
About a year ago I had to replace my fileserver as the old Athlon's board blew yet another capacitor and things were just too unstable. Now that I have a beefy-ish new machine (Sandy Bridge I5 2405s) ...