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I'm just being a bit paranoid with my attempts, and yes just KVM on Debian would work perfectly fine for my purposes but I'd like to take the more secure alternative if possible. Another comment about kernel hardening was a good one for KVM, and unfortunately AMD SEV is not available on most of their consumer chips (especially the older generations).
If I were to switch off multi-threading but assign vCPUs to my VM assuming multi-threaded capacity (I.e. assign 12 vCPUs to my lab cluster after switching of SMT for my 6 core CPU), would I face performance issues? I wonder
Is there an estimate of the loss in performance that I'm looking at, at full load?