davide445

@Crownjewels have you finally sorted out the NVLink problem Didn't know your configuration, but planning a workstation with 2xA6000 with NVLink and wanted them to be used both with Win VM for graphics and Linux VM for compute

In a new workstation Threadripper 5955WX 16 core, 256GB RAM, 2x1TB SSD, 2x4TB HDD, 2xA6000 GPU with NVLink connection want to enable four users to work three on Windows 10 and one Linux environment. Due the fact all of them will need to access the GPU, wanted to ask if will be better to install UnRAID and get the needed Win and Linux VM, just install Windows and use WSL for the Linux user, or again have Win 10 and use Hyper-V to get a Linux VM. They will need able to work concurrently. Not an expert of virtualization technology but accessing the GPU to me seems the major problem.

Maybe I have given up to soon 😄 Possibly in my case the setup didn't helped: was trying to get a VM into a Windows laptop with Ryzen CPU and integrated GPU, not the best combination Maybe using a discrete GPU will make all more manageable

A newcomer as you, will try to give some ideas waiting some more expert answer, due the fact I just tried to virtualize my wife Mac. As far as I know there is no way to officially wirtualize MacOS. The only supported option from Apple is to purchase proper Apple hardware. I tried to run an unofficial MacOS image with patches on a VM manager such as VirtualBox (I suppose Unraid can do the same), and was up and running but with absymyal graphics performances due no possibility to passtrough GPU hw to the VM, even trying to use the recommended steps in doing so. Maybe with some more hacking will be possible but I doubt will be a stable solution. The other option will be to create an hackintosh, installing the OS directly on the hw. Understood its not what you want, and I haven't tried this path. In the end I dropped trying and purchased a proper MBP for my wife. In my opinion for your need you can just purchase a Mac hardware and run a Windows VM inside, seems Parallels has good performances in doing so.

Will get for a project a Threadripper Pro 16 core machine with 128 GB RAM, 2x3090 GPU with NVLink connection, 2x1TB SSD (used for two OS), 2x4TB HDD (used for the two OS data) Primary OS will be Ubuntu but Windows will be available on the second SSD Will be used to develop, test, demo 3D realtime applications based on Vulkan and CUDA compute There are two activities why I was thinking to partition it - concurrent 3D development and testing from two remote specialists, one working on Linux the other on Windows. They will need to have access to all the OS and their environment allocated hw for development and testing - 3D asset optimization from another remote specialist, working using Digital Content Creation tools such as Blender, will need to have access only to his specific application without being able to save or transfer data elsewhere other than local disks (will be working on very expensive and proprietary digital assets) So I was thinking something about 3 VM: one Linux, one Windows and the third need to decide since will need just an application. This will be not a 24/7 "production" machine, but due the fact they will work on different time zones I can expect will be used in a 18 hours time span Wanted to ask based on the community experience if Unraid can make sense in such a context. I have no experience in VMs management, just thinking about a easy to start management system that allow also some flexibility (i.e. GPU partitioning) to test also some not officially supported configurations.