Yesterday I found out my current cpu / mobo could support iommu. As such I achieved a goal I've wanted awhile now. How to run my Windows games easily while still being able to run Linux without dual booting. Always knew about passthrough but assumed I didn't have the hardware capable.
i5 3470, 16gb of ram, rx570 gpu, 120gb ssd with Xubuntu on it, 250gb ssd holding my kvm image.
It took a bit of fiddling about but I got it worked out and it runs beautifully. I'm waiting for a 1080p hdmi dummy plug so I can get my 1600x900 monitor and plug it back into my mobo graphics with my 1080p main. Thus far though I've been testing my Steam streaming from it > the same desktop and the performance doesn't seem to be any different than streaming to my tv on a whole other machine. solid fps, not crazy but definitely workable. Running world of warcraft just roaming around the the cities / out killing stuff the cpu never gets above 50% so it seems to have some headroom. I have not tried running about the newest expansion. 50fps on average doing that. It's beautiful. I'm very pleased.
Right now I'm envisioning a future system with 8 4tb spinning drives in zfs raidz2 with 64gb of ram, high core count cpu Ryzen or something along with an RX6800 for each windows instance. It would be a full windows gaming machine backed by zfs. The possibilities are endless. Suck it UNRAID.
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But congratulations @Tadaen_Sylvermane
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