AMD lands Google, Twitter as customers with newest server chip

Re:AMD lands Google, Twitter as customers with newest server... by mastax on Thursday August 08, 2019 @10:24PM (#20650846)

Yes, that works. The motherboard doesn't need to do anything special so any should work, unless they did something silly like forget to put the IOV toggle in BIOS.

Caveats:

- Anti-cheat systems used in multiplayer games generally don't like running in VMs. - Consumer Nvidia cards don't get reset on VM reboot, you need to reboot the machine. - IIRC Nvidia cards need a KVM hack to get the driver to work.

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Re:AMD lands Google, Twitter as customers with newest server... by lhl on Thursday August 08, 2019 @10:53PM (#20650974)

Actually, it's AMD Vega cards that have a PCI reset issue that doesn't work well with VM cycling. There's a new kernel patch just the other week that fixes this: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/vega-10-and-12-reset-applica...

Nvidia cards do require a config workaround for VM detection but the workaround is relatively straightforward (and works w/o further mucking).

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