Win qubes and sys-gui-gpu

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@solene

it is not supposed to be used as a regular qube to have GPU available, for instance sys-gui-gpu does not have network access, like dom0.

I never said something like that. I’m using sys-gui-gpu for 2 years probably, but never Win qube in it.

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My question is specific: has anyone tried to run Win qubes in sys-gui-gpu, because I can and have a whole set of Linux qubes succesfully running in sys-gui-gpu.