Recent content by ancient-geek

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    IOMMU dual PCIE-16x motherboard

    5 of my 22 hosts are in my office. I can consolidate the 5 into 1 xen hypervisor system. One is Windows 10 for playback of MPEG-2 surround sound (HDMI) files. The main machine has two monitors and 6 workspaces, as I monitor remote servers over VPN. It is running CentOS-6 32 bit. Never saw a...
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    IOMMU ON or OFF?

    IOMMU is Intel's name for VT-x (virtual memory & execution) and VT-d (virtual PCIe addressing for peripherals). Microsoft does not support VT-d for cloud clusters in that it prevents fail-over and fail-back for virtual machines. It's mostly for servers and very herky work stations and platform...
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    IOMMU dual PCIE-16x motherboard

    looking for IOMMU motherboard with 2 pcie 16x slots for passthrough (CentOS7 + XEN platform). One HDMI A/V video card for one guest and one dual DVI-D video card for another guest