[CentOS] Motherboard and chipset compatibility

[Ljubomir Ljubojevic]

On 08/12/2013 07:30 PM, Glenn Eychaner wrote:
> Since the reqirements are (relatively) modest (except those two), I was
> hoping to squeeze something in.
>
> Looks like I'm out of luck, and buying another full tower to hold a
> motherboard, a disk drive, and one expansion card.
>

Have you considered "Desktop" type of cases? You could maybe place them 
bellow the existing Desktops, to conserve the horizontal space.

You can also think about Building a "beast" system that would run 
original CentOS and one or more guest systems (CentOS, Windows, 
whatever). If you use KVM Virtualization, and buy MB with "IOMMU" BIOS 
option 
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IOMMU-supporting_hardware), you 
could pass PCI devices (second graphics card, telemetry PCI card, etc) 
to guest system, thus making current systems obsolete.

So far I have only heard about IOMMU and PCI passthrough, so do not hold 
me to my words, but they say it works.


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Ljubomir Ljubojevic
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