On Saturday 21 December 2024 06:29:29 pm George at Clug wrote: > Roy, > > If you do not mind me asking, what is the make and model of the Video card > (GPU) that will be in the new workstation? Will you be using two GPUs in the > computer?
It's whatever is on the MB in the machine. The page where I selected stuff mentions these: Intel® Core™ i9-14900: UHD Graphics 770 Intel® Core™ i7-14700: UHD Graphics 770 Intel® Core™ i9-12900: UHD Graphics 770 Intel® Core™ i7-12700: UHD Graphics 770 Intel® Core™ i5-12500: UHD Graphics 770 Intel® Core™ i3-12100: UHD Graphics 730 Intel® Celeron® G6900: UHD Graphics 710 I'm not sure which one I'm gonna end up with. > I would also be interested in knowing what brand and type of CPU is in the > computer. Intel 6-core I5-12500 is what I selected. > These will affect virtualisation software. I'm currently running a rather old version of Slackware in this VM, which is where I do my email. > Do you know what do you want to achieve with virtualisation software? Pretty much the same thing, and maybe trying out some alternatives in other VMs since I'm going to have nontrivially more RAM to work with. > Do you want to just run CLI interfaces to virtualised servers? Nope. > Will you want to run Windows or Linux with GUIs like KDE Plasma or Gnome > using X11 and/or Wayland? One of the reasons I'm running what I am here is to use a rather old version of KDE, which doesn't go off in directions I don't care for like the newer stuff does. I'm not completely clear about that whole X11 vs. Wayland stuff, though I've seen both of them mentioned in here. > Do you want to watch video from the guests (i.e. virtual machines) ? I tend to do that in the host OS here. > Will you want to hear sound from the virtual machines ? Maybe. > Do you want to run any 3D programs and/or games running within the virtual > machines ? Not likely. > Do you want to be able to do GPU passthrough for any specific virtual > machines? I'm not sure where I'd need that. > Do you want to implement nested virtualisation so you can run virtualised > hypervisors? Nor that... -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin
