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It looks like the AMT-V and RVI extensions are what is needed. Eve-ng and Cisco VIRL do support these extensions, but users on forums complain of sometimes unpredictable behavior. Eve-NG does say it's capable, but not supported. I really like Ryzen, and I don't want to sleep on PCIE 4, but is saving a few hundred bucks to get 12 cores (which I do need) worth possible frustration? Yikes! I'm hoping that AMD is doing a better job with getting people on board as virtualization partners. Their core counts per cost is extremely desirable for Home Labs.

That's pretty nutty considering EPYC has, what, 32 cores per die? Is it just vendor support for AMD-V or does the instruction set just not exist at the hardware level?

For virtualization the holy trinity is core count, amount of RAM, and storage. You'll want plenty of those - more is better. Unless you are doing performance applications (gaming, for example) speeds don't matter quite so much, but you'll want the headroom to be able to run multiple threads.

I am wondering about support on Ryzen 3 for nested virtualization for VMware workstation (or any other hypervisor). With the insane core counts and performance on Ryzen 3, particularly Ryzen 9, it makes sense to make your gaming machine double as a home lab. Today, I do this with and Intel CPU with the VT-X extensions and VMware workstation. One of the applications I run is Eve-NG for a network lab, but it says it doesn't support AMD. Does anyone know if AMD now supports nested virtualization? I haven't found great information. I want to build a new system soon, and this is the deciding factor for me. I want to support AMD, and the price point is super attractive. I don't suppose anyone has any experience with this? Thanks for any information!