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Ryzen 7 Virtualization for Home-Lab - Has anyone tried ESX & KVM?

rick_rofanui Mar 16, 2017 2:06 AM

Hi Guys,

Ryzen 7 1700X/1800X has a lot of horsepower and I am considering it for Home-Lab?

Has anyone tried ESX & KVM on Ryzen 7 1700X/1800X? or Running VMware workstation & Virtual box on Windows 10?

Also if someone share link or details of Virtualization feature supported by AMD Ryzen 7 and X370 Chipset? (AMD's equivalent technology for Intel's VTx - VTd (IOMMU) etc)

With Regards,

Re: Ryzen 7 Virtualization for Home-Lab - Has anyone tried ESX & KVM?

saywhut Mar 16, 2017 12:11 PM (in response to rick_rofanui)

Specs:
Ryzen 7 1800X
GA-AX370-Gaming 5 (rev. 1.0)
2 AMD Radeon RX 480 Sapphire Nitro + OC in CrossfireX
G.SKILL TridentZ RGB Series 32GB DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600)

I use Hyper-V as my virtualization platform, and my VMs are running flawlessly with Ryzen. I first flashed the BIOS to the most recent to F5d, enabled AMD SVM, or AMD-V, then I was able to hypervise my Windows 10 OS. I had to import my VMs from a system that were running Intel, and Hyper-V was smart enough to know that processors had changed, so it just completely shut down the VMs during the import instead of "resuming" from hibernation.

I take it you will run just fine with other virtualization platforms such as ESX or VMware Workstation. Just make sure your BIOS is up-to-date since every BIOS update right now is crucial for Ryzen.
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  rick_rofanui Mar 18, 2017 8:48 AM (in response to saywhut)
  
  saywhut Thanks for your reply, and it was very helpful.
  
  I saw some issue report on online posts titled "AMD Ryzen with VMWARE ESXI - A PINK SCREEN", i am not sure if it is due to some specific bug on M/B or M/B FW or Driver.
  (1) Did you face any issue like that?
  (2) Secondly have you tired using Pass-through Video Card (in Ur case AMD Radeon RX 480 x 2) with VMs?
  
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    saywhut Mar 21, 2017 7:28 AM (in response to rick_rofanui)
    
    I haven't had a single issue running my VMs using Hyper-V so far.
    
    I can't speak for ESXi, however just because one person got a pink screen doesn't mean you will. The only way to find out is to try yourself.
    
    I do not use video pass-thru for my VMs as I need RDS setup. Maybe one of the things it lacks that VMware has.
    
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  rkk May 21, 2017 11:06 AM (in response to saywhut)
  
  I have the same Mobo/CPU configuration which I just built:-
  Ryzen 7 1800X
  GA-AX370-Gaming 5 (rev. 1.0)
  Either I must be going blind or stupid, but I cannot find anything in the BIOS Settings to turn on the Virtualisation, ie AMD-V.
  Wonder if you could let me know how you got it working.
  I know it needs to be enabled because neither Virtual Box nor the Hyper V will install, saying that virtualisation needs to be turned on.
  Bios Version : F4
  Date : 02/20/2017
  
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    walking_corpse Aug 7, 2017 1:50 PM (in response to rkk)
    
    update your bios (i think it's F6 currently), that should have the IOMMU setting for virtualization
    
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