I had attempted to upgrade my HP machine at home to R4.0 a while back
and ran into a VT-d related message about reassignable interrupts not
being found, yet I do have the VT-d enabled in bios. I never had any
indication while running R3.2, or before, that there was any issue with
the VT-d functionality. No bios upgrades are available from the
manufacture and I can't really afford to be without a functional machine
should I need to spend time trying work out why, or to force an upgrade.
Since support for R3.2 will at some point be deprecated, I thought I
should start doing some investigation for some new hardware while I have
a chance and before I am pressured to move forward. If I stand up a new
machine I will be better able to investigate any issues on the older
machine later.
The selection of laptops looks good on the HCL, and there has been quite
a bit of discussion on various options. But it would appear that there
are very few Desktop machines on the Qubes 4.0 HCL list have been fully
tested and are green all the way across. In fact the one machine that is
green all the way across for R4.0 just happens to be my own HCL report,
for my work desktop system. Even then its difficult to compare the
relative computational power that each entry has without searching for
each machines specs, one by one. The CPU identifier, if specified, might
give a relative ranking, thought the number or cores, ram, Ghz, and
disks are notably absent thus it hard to rank them.
Since my old and outdated Dell Optiplex 990 seems to be the only game in
town, I'm therefore stuck looking at the Dell Optiplex 7050, but then I
don't have any particular loyalty to Dell. I don't mind building a
system from scratch using a good motherboard, if I had to, but it seems
the motherboards listed on the HCL are even less well tested for R4.0
than the desktop systems are. Not a single board on that list is even
running R4.0!
So, I figured I should just ask here, What high end R4.0 systems work
for you? What Desktop systems are fairly high end (Cores, GB's DRAM,
ample disk storage bays, multiple monitors) that are working well under
R4.0?
Are there *any* systems with a tested TPM setup capable of the
Anti-Evil-Maid configuration that have not yet made it onto the HCL? Or
is it only laptops that are doing this? I could force a laptop work if
it is both dockable and can come with enough Dram/Disk space, but then I
would never undock it, and thus I would be paying big $$$ for something
I'm not even planning to use it for.
Oh, if there is something running good out there, and it passes all the
tests under R4.0, please consider helping to update the HCL with R4.0
machines that actually work! Its always nice to know which ones to
avoid, but knowing what works is a much better way to go.
Thank you for your consideration.
Steve.
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