<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Thanks Intel (and maybe others)! Very interesting Sascha, thank you for bringing this to my attention. Maybe my Haswell system (which is also affected) will suffice for 2018 :-P The Spectre attacks appear to suck big-time. Regarding Meltdown, I hope AMD will soon have a Ryzen CPU with APU ready ... <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2018-01-03 17:28, Sascha Fröhlich wrote: </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:CALU2qqoHyKGEkAiDPx154K7U_GVs=SjtwB4Uw37CvMtKTZCxTw@mail.gmail.com"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> Hi Jonas, there is news about an Intel CPU hardware bug: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/7nl8r0/intel_bug_incoming/" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/7nl8r0/intel_bug_incoming/</a> Fixes for that may decrease performance under certain workloads (especially virtualisation and IO heavy loads). So maybe hold off that purchase for a bit longer until there is more information. Regards, Sascha <div class="gmail_quote"> <div dir="ltr">Jonas Camillus Jeppesen <<a href="mailto:jonascj@sdu.dk" moz-do-not-send="true">jonascj@sdu.dk</a>> schrieb am Mi., 3. Jan. 2018, 16:46: </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear everyone, Anything special to consider before buying hardware in January 2018? My aim is to run my Linux workstation and a single Windows 10 gaming VM with a dedicated GPU assigned via VFIO. The only piece of hardware which is dead certain to be in the build is my newly purchased ASUS Strix GTX1070. It is an mini-itx build, in my A4-SFX v1 case, so I'm forced to choose a platform with an build-in GPU since since I can only fit a single dedicated graphics card. Does that mean Intel Kaby Lake these days? Anything special to note about the various 100- and 200-series chipsets? Maybe I should look for a motherboard with at least two USB controllers so one can be assigned to the VM, although I plan on using only a single set of mouse/keyboard (I have seen people assign usb devices or controllers on the fly, i.e. effectively switching mouse/keyboard between guest/host). Thank you for your input. / Jonas _______________________________________________ vfio-users mailing list <a href="mailto:vfio-users@redhat.com" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">vfio-users@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/vfio-users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/vfio-users</a> </blockquote> </div> </blockquote> </body> </html>