Gaming on Linux using Windows games is a widely common use case. Wine works very well for most DX9 games already, but DX11 support is still quite WIP.
> if you've got virtualization support, and pcie pass-through support, why not just run this stuff through a Windows VM?
Because you don't want to run Windows? There can be multiple reasons for the later.
Today most DirecX 9 games work flawlessly out of the box (including one click install from steam, also running under wine).
Gaming on Linux using Windows games is a widely common use case. Wine works very well for most DX9 games already, but DX11 support is still quite WIP.
> if you've got virtualization support, and pcie pass-through support, why not just run this stuff through a Windows VM?
Because you don't want to run Windows? There can be multiple reasons for the later.