I had this idea while back when I read about VGA passthrough on Xen, "What if I installed a Windows VM on a Ramdisk and passed through a decent VGA into it." Sadly at the time I did not have enough ram on any of my servers to do that, but now I do as I quite recently bought a Dell R710 with 144GB of ECC REG. But we're not going to use that fancy dell for this, but the C6100 that I built into Lian-Li PC-A05B chassis.
So this will be the hardware we'll be working with:
So this will be the hardware we'll be working with:
- 1x C6100 in Lian-Li PC-A05B
- 2x L5630
- 12x8GB ECC REG
- 128GB Intel SSD
- HD6950
- Software wise the plan goes as follows
- install debian to the ssd
- install kvm
- enable vga passthrough and dedicate the 6950 for vt-d
- add 64GB tmpfs to fstab
- install windows 7 to tmpfs
- benchmark the ramdisk, play with the vm
- create script for syncing the tmpfs image to ssd.
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