Roy,
I don't know what words I should use to say how nice I find your choice. To keep it simple: 'Capable and cost effective'. I usually like the i7 range, but this CPU has everything I look for when choosing a computer to act as a Hypervisor, particularly for my primary PC on which I test a number of Linux distributions, and/or for running Windows in a VM, and a choice that would be cost effective, and not a waste of funds. I expect your new computer will run KVM/QEMU and Virtual Machine Manger very well. As I guess you know, please ensure that "Intel® Virtualization Technology" is enabled in BIOS (preferably before installing Debian 12). https://wiki.debian.org/KVM $ sudo apt install qemu-system libvirt-daemon-system virt-manager If you use virtio drivers for the VM's video, I expect that you will be able to enable OpenGL (Listen type to None) and 3D acceleration, if you wanted to do so. I have only needed to do so to run a VM with Cinnamon without software rendering. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/96144/intel-core-i512500-processor-18m-cache-up-to-4-60-ghz/specifications.html Max Memory Size (dependent on memory type): 128 GB Total Cores: 6 # of Performance-cores: 6 # of Efficient-cores: 0 Total Threads: 12 Max Turbo Frequency: 4.60 GHz Performance-core Base Frequency: 3.00 GHz Max Memory Size (dependent on memory type): 128 GB GPU Name: Intel® UHD Graphics 770 DirectX* Support: 12 OpenGL* Support: 4.5 OpenCL* Support: 3.0 Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology: Yes Intel® Virtualization Technology with Redirect Protection (VT-rp): Yes Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x): Yes Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d): Yes Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT): Yes On Sunday, 22-12-2024 at 12:28 Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: 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
