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Virtualizing Windows 7 (or Linux) on a NVMe drive with VFIO

VFIO (Virtual Function I/O) allows PCI devices to be passed directly from the host operating system to virtualized guests. Normally, PCI passthrough is used to get neat native performance from graphics cards. Passthrough can also be used with NVMe drives, which use a PCI lane, to get near native

Gigabyte Front Panel Audio with Linux

On some Gigabyte motherboards (including the Gigabyte Gaming 5 [http://amzn.to/2kMJpnh]) there are issues with front panel audio not playing. Speakers plugged directly into the motherboard are detected by Linux and play audio as expected. Front panel speaker connections appear in Volume Managers as expected but no sound

AMD RAID on Ryzen

Warning : This guide is not for the faint of heart. Backup data before proceeding. Here be dragons. This process involves a) compiling a kernel b) compiling a kernel driver c) adding that driver to the kernel d) creating a new LiveUSB installer containing the custom kernel+driver. Here be dragons.