virtualization Project "Omega"

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What is Project "Omega?"   

It is basically a spin off to the alienware alpha mini gaming pc (Small Form Factor or SFF).

 

Why was virtualization included?

 

Multiple Operating systems serving their purposes.

 

any other operating systems than the ones mentioned?

 

Perhaps a Hackintosh VM?   I don't like apple all that too often but still, -- quoting Retr0 from Watchdogs 2 -- Hackers love a challenge.

 

No, I am not THE kind of hacker that steals credit info and releases someone's fetish on the web, I don't do that.

 

That aside this is just something I created this topic to explain my ideas and thoughts as well as to encourage others to ask questions.

We're curious, and that's what makes us human (sort of.)

 

CPU:  Intel Xeon platform (still looking for the specific model, give me a few to find it.)

Mobo:  still looking

GPU:  one GTX 1050 TI low profile card for Windows 10 vm #1, GTX 1030 and lower (so that the Ubuntu distro doesn't get get confused and nor will I) for the other 3 windows VMs,

AMD Radeon 460 SFX (Correct me if I am wrong), for ubuntu host os, and any NIVIDIA card that has the maxwell architecture for the android VM because there is (according to Linus) an integrated ARM processor and I am rooting for closest compatibility to the Android OS.

Drives:  three 5TB drives (manufacturer doesn't matter), 3 1TB SSDs (one for ubuntu Alone, and the other two for parity cache).

PCIE devices list:   four thunderbolt 3 pcie expansion cards, five usb 3.0 pcie expansion cards, 1 usb 2.0 pcie expansion card (for android vm), and perhaps an IDE card for high bandwidth data throughput for the NAS R/W speeds.

Other notes:   DIY ext. PCIE port for external backplane (for gpus, drives and other expansion cards.) rather than spending a lot for a 5 year old set of enterprise grade host adapters and backplane expansion boards.   So that's my substitution for that.. not to mention there's more direct bandwidth to the "DIY Backplane/expansion board"

 

First it goes out externally as pcie 16x and then it goes down to a pcie 4x once it goes to the GPUs and the usb ports and then the rest is reserved to the thunderbolt cards and the IDE expansion cards for maximum bandwidth possible through a single cable to and from the host (aka, the motherboard)

 

I was originally going to go with UnRaid Server Pro so that I can use a snapshot feature so that in the event that I have a problem with the VM's OS, I can restore it no problem!  Only a few clicks here and there and boom!   But, I might still go with it... unless I can seclude one os from the internet permanently while the VMs running on top of the host will be connected to the internet.    Now that I think about it, can you guys help me decide?

 

Ubuntu Host OS or UnRaid Server Pro Host OS?

 

Edited October 4, 2017 by Ripmin-PSN
Added more info for now (still adding more soon.)