Hey guys – just a general question – he’s already running Linux Mint – cant he just run Windows 10 within KVM on top??
You could also look at xcp-ng as your type 1 hypervisor. (Type I’s that I know are KVM(Proxmox belongs to this category, Citrix(xcp-ng as a member), and ESXI(VMware)). There might be more however those are the one’s I familiar with. I believe any linux distribution can run KVM with appropriate hardware (proxmox runs on debian with a GUI).
In terms of accessing your Windows VM – the performance may not be as great as you would like but since you are using Dragon, you don’t seem to be doing anything real graphics intensive. You could try x2go as your client/server software to access your windows VM. I find x2go a lot more snappy than VNC (which frankly I think VNC kind of sucks). RDP is another option as well.
Tom has a lot of informative videos regarding the setup of xcp-ng which I really found useful when I first kind of transitioned into the world of running hypervisors above and beyond VB.