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Edool14

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So i was wondering about doing a 2 gamers 1 CPU with my A8 7600 CPU.

will i be able to do this ik it has virtualisation but im planning to use intergrated for NAS and two other GPU for VM's??

I was also wondering how to do this for AMD hardware (CPU only)?
 
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This could work, but the A8 7600 is only 4 cores (technically 2 and 4 at the same time) and you would need overhead for the system, so each VM would only be able to get 1 core. You need at least 2 in many games and 4 to run smoothly, so you need something more beefy than an a8. And for the NAS you need another core or 2, so you would need at least a 10 core. The A8 7600 should support virtualization. You would also need to figure out how to do GPU passthrough. This is possible on Linux but I don't know for sure on Windows. I have tried this on Ubuntu GNOME but it didnt work because you need a separate graphics card for the VM, and I didn't have one installed. Oh, and don't forget about RAM.

This is how to do passthrough on Arch...
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This could work, but the A8 7600 is only 4 cores (technically 2 and 4 at the same time) and you would need overhead for the system, so each VM would only be able to get 1 core. You need at least 2 in many games and 4 to run smoothly, so you need something more beefy than an a8. And for the NAS you need another core or 2, so you would need at least a 10 core. The A8 7600 should support virtualization. You would also need to figure out how to do GPU passthrough. This is possible on Linux but I don't know for sure on Windows. I have tried this on Ubuntu GNOME but it didnt work because you need a separate graphics card for the VM, and I didn't have one installed. Oh, and don't forget about RAM.

This is how to do passthrough on Arch: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF
Ubuntu: https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Multiheaded-NVIDIA-Gaming-using-Ubuntu-14-04-KVM-585/
There is also Xenserver, but I don't know much about it. It seems to be free and supports passthrough: https://xenserver.org/

I personally would reccommend getting a CPU with more cores such as a used Opteron or Xeon.
 
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