I was planning on doing a new build for when Zen 3 come out and I been looking for months for the solution, is there is any, for the build I have in mind. I want a hypervisor and Virtual machines that I can load, pause and reload. I discarded many option and end with possible using Xen or KVM, I never used them I don’t have experience with them, just trying to learn about before commit. After I found that Xen will probably give me problem with drivers right now, I end here in this forum.
My Idea is to use a Ryzen 5950x (planning on buying when available) have a headless hypervisor, then 2 cores for a headless tiny Nextcloud server, 2 cores for a web-user Linux machine and 12 cores free to summon (load) what I need at moment of use, like a workstation, Linux gaming or windows-gaming machine.
I’m a system analyst. I do programing compiling, compression and decompression (that is where that 12 core will be use mostly), I play strategic and tactic games on my free time. What I have right now is a Laptop where I use for Web, email, discord, scheduling and so on, I have a workstation for work and I have a Nexcloud on Digital ocean that I rent online. My Idea is to upgrade all that in one machine, with multiple virtual machines.
I was thinking on using what I have on hand for this project and only buy the Ryzen 5950x because it will not get to waste if it does not works.
This is what I have:
Mobo: ASUS Strix B550-F
Mem: 32GB
Vcard1: RX 580 Nitro+ (may upgrade, I don’t play demanding games)
Vcard2: RX 550 (have it around, could use on the web-user VFIO)
So, Is VFIO the correct solution for me? can I do 2 VFIO and 2 headless? can someone point me to the right direction? or technology is not there yet?
English is not my first Language, sorry for any mistake and thanks for any response.