Easily prioritize certain VMs

[DemiMarie]

The problem you're addressing (if any)

Users playing video games want to prioritize the game over other applications. This is not a serious problem because games do not work on Qubes OS without GPU passthrough, but this will (hopefully) change in the future.

The solution you'd like

Implement the Game Mode portal. If the user consents, the implementation will prioritize the VM the game is running in and de-prioritize other VMs except the GUIVM. Game mode will be turned on in these VMs.

The value to a user and who that user might be

Better and more consistent performance in games.

Completion criteria checklist

No response

[rapenne-s]

I like this feature, but it should be named differently in my opinion. This could also be used for video conferencing or other heavily CPU-bound tasks.

So a name involving "priority" or "boost" terms may be more suited than gaming :)

[DemiMarie]

I like this feature, but it should be named differently in my opinion. This could also be used for video conferencing or other heavily CPU-bound tasks.

I wonder if there is a way to automatically prioritize a VM doing interactive work (like a video conference) over a VM doing background batch processing (like a big parallel compile job). My first thought was to throw a machine learning model at a bunch of data, but that is probably not a good idea 😆.

So a name involving "priority" or "boost" terms may be more suited than gaming :)

Definitely.