Precision WorkStation T7500, Qubes 4.1.0

Qubes release 4.1 (R4.1)

Brand: Dell Inc.
Model: Precision WorkStation T7500
BIOS: A17

Xen: 4.14.3
Kernel: 5.10.90-1

RAM: 196605 Mb

CPU:
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5638 @ 2.00GHz
Chipset:
Intel Corporation 5520 I/O Hub to ESI Port [8086:3406] (rev 22)
VGA:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Bonaire [FirePro W5100] [1002:6649] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

Net:
Intel Corporation 82546EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 01)
Intel Corporation 82546EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 01)
Intel Corporation 82546EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 01)
Intel Corporation 82546EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 01)
Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM5761 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 10)
Oracle/SUN Happy Meal 10/100 Ethernet [hme] (rev 01)
Oracle/SUN Happy Meal 10/100 Ethernet [hme] (rev 01)
Oracle/SUN Happy Meal 10/100 Ethernet [hme] (rev 01)
Oracle/SUN Happy Meal 10/100 Ethernet [hme] (rev 01)

SCSI:
Intenso SSD Sata Rev: 9A0
DVD±RW DH-16ABS Rev: PD11

HVM: Active
I/O MMU: Active
HAP/SLAT: Yes
TPM: Device present
Remapping: yes

Qubes HCL Files are copied to: ‘dom0’
Qubes-HCL-Dell_Inc_-Precision_WorkStation_T7500__-20220220-050726.yml - HCL Info

Note:
2x Xeon L5638 low power for telco market
all slots filled with 16GB DIMM, HMT42GR7BMR4A-G7

Sun Happy Meal 64Bit PCI cards are problematic, and one gets reset pci error. So they are not included in net-vm and the topic is to be investigated.
The Happy Meal cards have their Flash removed, as it is sun specific
and interferes with bios. But Linux does not need the flash.

Managed to get SUN HME running in HVM with configure strict reset for PCI
devices.
user@localhost:~$ ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: ens7f0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 08:00:20:81:xx:xx brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
altname enp0s7f0
inet 192.168.10.1/32 scope global ens7f0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: ens8f0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 08:00:20:cf:xx:xx brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
altname enp0s8f0
inet 192.168.20.1/32 scope global ens8f0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
4: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:16:3e:5e:xx:xx brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 10.137.0.18/32 brd 10.255.255.255 scope global eth0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::216:3eff:fe5e:6c00/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
user@localhost:~$

user@localhost:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440FX - 82441FX PMC [Natoma] (rev 02)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton II]
00:01.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 IDE [Natoma/Triton II]
00:01.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03)
00:02.0 Unassigned class [ff80]: XenSource, Inc. Xen Platform Device (rev 01)
00:04.0 VGA compatible controller: Device 1234:1111 (rev 02)
00:05.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 10)
00:07.0 Ethernet controller: Oracle/SUN Happy Meal 10/100 Ethernet [hme] (rev 01)
00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Oracle/SUN Happy Meal 10/100 Ethernet [hme] (rev 01)

Sound Works, there is enough RAM for any VM, so one could go without swap space to be nice to the SSDs.

Keyboard and mouse are PS/2 so I have USB-VM.
The machine has PCI-e, PCI-X (Adaptec SCSI will be installed), PS/2, and floppy

So:
As my machine fulfills the following criteria, I hereby call it out for inclusion in the community-recommended list:

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Thank you @luja for your HCL report, which is online now.