[vfio-users] help with choice of GPU for passthrough

[Bronek Kozicki]

I'm upgrading my home machine, it is running two Windows 7 VMs and they 
need identical hardware configuration. The host is 2x Xeon E5-2667V2 + 
128GB RAM - obviously oversized for only two Windows ;-P . I'm 
considering choice between Radeon Fury Nano and more expensive nVidia. I 
know that Radeons have problem with PCIe reset (in kernel 4.1.15 + qemu 
2.4.1), is this likely to have been solved in a newer version I am not 
using yet/not written yet?

If not, then I will consider switching to nVidia but the problem here is 
the price, obviously. For the price only "little" higher than Nano I can 
buy Quadro M4000 but Id rather have more performance. I wonder whether 
nVidia played silly games disabling its drivers under vfio with Titan X 
- that would be a very nice option. I do not want to spend more than 
$1300 per card.

Any advice?


B.


PS Feel free to cite me to AMD support, they may possibly lose my brand 
loyalty due to broken PCIe reset - I'm just too tired of not being able 
to reliably reset my VMs. Even if I need to pay more for worse performance.