On Aug 12, 2013 1:57 PM, "Ljubomir Ljubojevic" centos@plnet.rs wrote:
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.
-- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe
StarOS, Mikrotik
I've been following GPU passthrough with KVM casually for a while, testing andon stacks from EL6 up to Fedora Rawhide. Passthrough on other devices work great - you loose guest migration ability, of course - for everything *except * graphics devices. I would not consider this a viable option.
--Pete