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Does anyone know if the AMD cpus (3950x specifically) will run vmware without any issues?
The only issue I've found with VMWare is it doesn't support enough cores per VM to fully utilise a Threadripper CPU.TBF, you'd only want to give a single VM a few cores at most anyway. My point being, no real issues here.