Matteo

I have just started playing with VMs myself, but is it ok to passthrough all the CPU cores to the VM? I have a 7980xe and if I passthourgh 36 threads my disk writes and speeds go to 1/10 of what they are supposed to be, even with passthrough SSDs. I just want to run MacOS so I want to keep unraid overhead to a minimum, but I found I need to reserve to it one core/two threads.

Hello everybody, I am relatively new here and I am trying out UnRaid. Although I am sure I am missing out on some very useful functionality of UnRaid, at the moment the sole purpose for me of using it is to setup a MacOs VM passing through as much system resources as possible. Thanks to the generous work of SpaceInvaderOne as well as reading this forum, I managed to have a working Mojave on my i9 7980xe and Asus x299 TUF MK2. The process was simpler than a bare metal hackintosh. This motherboard, for being a x299 one, is quite entry level and the management of the IOMMU groups is not ideal. I am considering in buying a new one, but since most of my works is CPU-bound, I might sell everything and switch to a new gen Threadripper instead. How much more difficult, compared to intel, would it be to have a working Mojave (or Catalina) VM with 3rd gen Threadripper? Thanks!

Thank you very much for the detailed reply, actually I am running Unraid in legacy mode.

Hi everybody, this is my very first post here. I first would like to deeply thankSpaceInvaderOne for all his work: I knew nothing about VMs, and going through his videos I managed to get one working perfectly! Now to my questions. My sole purpose of using unraid is to easily setup a powerful hackintosh without too many headaches. So I would like to reserve for unraid as little resources as possible, and to passthrough ad much as possible to the hackintosh vm. At the moment, this is my configuration: i9 7980xe, Asus X299 TUF MK2, PowerColor Vega 56. With Macinabox, I installed Mojave and - thanks to SpaceInvaderOne videos and the forum - I managed to passthrough usb devices, a usb controller, onboard audio and a gpu. However: I can successfully passthrough Vega 56 only installing it on the second slot, with another gpu on the first one. Specifying a rom file does not help and stubbing the device in the Syslinux configurator did not help either. I would be ok to sacrifice a slot, but since I read it is not necessary, I would like to solve the issue. Moreover, I get six instances of “Digital-out (HDMI)” in System Preferences - Sound. It seems weird as the card has 2 HDMIs and 2 DPs. It is only cosmetically disturbing, so I could live with it. The USB controller I am passing through is a ASMedia ASM2142. It is supposed to be natively supported, but plugging in devices seem to have no effect. I need to research more into this. Changing the description from Penryn to Ivy Bridge seems to give me better performances, jumping from 9211 to 9602 in Cinebench r20 (though still far from the 10153 I get in baremetal Win10). The motherboard I am using has a quite poor IOMMU groups management and I am thinking about buying a different X299 motherboard. However, the fact that to setup a working Mojave VM was quite easy after all (thanks to the informations that I found here or in youtube) makes me wonder whether I should replace my system with an AMD 3960x or 3970x instead. Most of my workflow is CPU bound and I could use all those cores. Would there be any significant difference in the setup of a Mojave or Catalina VM switching to AMD? Thank you for your help and advices!