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I would suggest removing the Windows drive until after Fedora has been installed and updated. Install Fedora 26 according to one’s liking. If one happens to be using an SSD and one has picked the ASRock x370 Taichi (or another board that has a SATA controller in an isolated IOMMU group) this means that one can run the SATA SSD from that controller and pass through the entire controller to the VM if the I/O performance is unsatisfactory. This guide supports installing windows to NVMe or SSD. I would recommend removing other storage devices. With all of that in a good spot, one can probably start by doing an install of windows to a dedicated storage device. One will need to ensure that IOMMU and SVM are enabled in the UEFI in one’s bios this is covered in the video for the Gigabyte Gaming 5 and ASRock x370 Taichi. So, if one is not sure about one’s IOMMU groups, run this script and examine one’s IOMMU situation.įor d in /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/*/devices/* do This unoptimization in I/O is largely due to Ryzen being a new platform and I am confident it will be improved over time. It is not necessary to have an isolated SATA controller, but one can speed things up a bit by passing through the SATA controller to the virtual machine (the same way we will pass through the graphics card to the VM). There is some variability in support – I have not tested this on the Asus Crosshair Hero VI (as I do not yet have access to one) but I am aware from helping some of our forum members that the built-in secondary SATA controller on the CH6 is not in an isolated IOMMU group as it is on the ASRock Taichi. With the AGESA 1006 update, many Ryzen AM4 motherboards support proper IOMMU grouping, which is necessary for efficient (and reliable) PCIe device isolation, which is the crucial technology that allows a virtual machine to access the real hardware of a secondary graphics card. If one does not have one of these motherboards, that is okay. One will need two GPUs to follow along with this guide, though it is possible with some GPUs to do this with a single graphics card.īased on my experiences, I recommend the ASRock X370 Taichi or the Gigabyte Gaming 5 and they can be purchased here: This guide covers installing Windows directly to NVMe or SSD and then booting that device inside a VM under Linux. One of the things I have covered in past videos, and one of the first things that is almost necessaryīefore getting started, make sure the hardware one has (or the hardware one plans to have) properly supports this. One would imagine it is more efficient and less wasteful to maintain a single installation of windows that can be used in use-case scenario. It is even possible for one to setup a single installation of Windows can be booted both on bare metal hardware, and booted under virtualization, without too much headache. With AMD’s Ryzen, we’ve finally got an affordable desktop CPU with more than four cores. The Skylake CPUs were wicked fast, but limited to only four computing cores. The first guide on this that I put together was based on Arch Linux and the Intel “Skylake” series CPUs. We will “pass through” a real graphics card to a virtual machine (VM). This article is about leveraging some of those technologies to set up Fedora 26 on a Ryzen 5 or 7 system to be able to boot a Windows virtual machine that has direct access to a real “bare-metal” hardware graphics card. The migration of heavy computing resources from the CPU to GPUs (and other specialized PCIe add-in cards) has driven the need for virtual machines and containers to be able to access non-virtual resources at “bare-metal” speeds. This type of technology is not new in enterprise businesses virtualization came in vogue over five years ago. One working in technology is likely to have heard some industry buzzwords: virtualization and containerization. In order to support that in the most efficient (read: least overhead) and most secure way possible, there must be hardware to assist with this level of compartmentalization. To me this means that a computer could run a windows app, a mac app, a Linux app (or BeOS, or FreeBSD, or Plan9, or Android, or anything, really…) side-by-side with performance like as if it were on bare metal hardware. In the future, computer operating systems and hardware will be smart enough to allow apps to run in an operating system agnostic way.
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