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I have never used a Hypervisor or NAS OS before. I have built PCs, understand the concepts, and run virtualbox. Unraid seemed easy enough. I also remember Linus' 2 Gamers 1 CPU video. I have a AMD R7 1700, Asrock B450M/ac R2.0, and AMD Rx 5700. I put it in a case that offers decent drive expansion. I am looking to try and build a NAS, but keep the machine as an accessible Windows 11 PC capable PC for general use. I don't want to need to run the VM 24/7 or needing people to go into a web gui interface to launch the VM. Any recommended guides for setup and configuring a local VM that can be launched by a user at the system without needing to access unraid?

I am looking at taking advantage of Ryzen R7 1700. It seems great for gaming, streaming, rendering. But I want to make better use of the system. Unraid seems the way to do it. I have heard IOMMU is still not perfect and hardware and software isnt plug and play. I do not expect to get bare metal levels of preformance, but something close to it. My goal is to have a gaming system and nas as a normal loadout. Potentially launch a second windows vm on top of that for web browsing YouTube/Netflix. On occasion, game with just two windows vms. Even have odd instances where I would be rendering while two vms browse or game lightly. Questions... Can rendering and/or nas be done in the unraid OS? Can unraid or vms run without dedicated graphics cards assuming you are not needing a 3d accelarator and you only access them over a webui, terminal, or remote desktop? How dynamicly can resorces be assigned to vms? Do vms need to be restarted to change resorces? How does windows 10 licensing work with vms? I am sure I have other questions. This will answer some questions I have at the moment.

I wanna build a multi-core machine and visualize it. Then, make the VMs accessible remotely by a cheap set-top style device in a sort of terminal setup. The user OS doesn't matter since it is just going to need basic internet functionality. Reason I am interested in unRAID is the ability to backup and snapshot the OS to prevent data loss and virus infections. Is this something unRAID can do, and what type of OS/Hardware is recommended?