On Aug 12, 2013 1:57 PM, "Ljubomir Ljubojevic" <centos at 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