[AMD APU Ryzen 5700G iGPU Passthrough on 6.9.2]

1 hour ago, Tanne said:

My motherboard is a gigabyte DS3H B550M

Thanks, is it stable so far?

You think it'll work on other motherboard like asrockrack ? 

https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=B550D4-4L#Specifications

I'm thinking of getting one for this purpose..

[AMD APU Ryzen 5700G iGPU Passthrough on 6.9.2]

@tanne whats your motherboard?

Reading this thread I was under the impression only specific motherboard would work.. I hope I'm wrong though..

[AMD APU Ryzen 5700G iGPU Passthrough on 6.9.2]

On 7/1/2022 at 8:48 AM, wx-Rmt said:

 

According to my test, MSI B450 and B550 can support 5700G pass-through, but 3400G cannot pass through.

So basically it has nothing to do with the chipset, maybe it has something to do with the vbios setting of amd in igpu。

 

Thanks for the insight, that would make motherboard selection easier. 

But how come i read some people having issues extracting vbios from 5700g, while some succeed?

Is this like silicon lottery thing where we can get different OC results from 2 identical CPUs?

 

[AMD APU Ryzen 5700G iGPU Passthrough on 6.9.2]

Hi, I've been monitoring this AM4 IGPU passthru since I'm thinking of getting 5700g + AM4 board once my GPU failed.

So CMMIW It seems like its motherboard dependant,

From the previous post looks like MSI B450 is working, is there any other known working brand?

Has anyone tried Asrockrack AM4? I'm thinking of getting their B550 board.

Since it's server-grade perhaps there's a greater chance of passthrough being supported.

[UPS Battery consumption, running single vm vs multiple VM's]

On 2/4/2022 at 10:54 PM, JonathanM said:

For how long? Typical consumer battery backups are meant to provide enough runtime to safely shut down a machine, or bridge a small gap while a generator is brought online. They are not designed for extended runtime. You can find UPS's rated for extended runtime, many have options for extra battery packs, but they typically cost as much as a well appointed pc.

 

Can't really answer cause i cant tell how long each blackouts duration is,

but i think i'm gonna give it a shot and see if it's feasible, if not i'm gonna revert to physical.

And I cant use EBM, no room in the server rack.

[X11SCL-IF and multiple displays question]

So I'm about to jump to the virtualization train, there's just something about multiple displays that i want to confirm.

My setup is : 

X11SCL-IF + i5-8400 + RTX mini 2060.

I run 2 displays from my current windows 10 install from the GPU, to TV and monitor using 2 HDMI KVM LAN extenders. 

Now would there be any issue creating same setup using unraid, since my motherboard doesn't support IGPU ?

Would unraid take up some sort of display from the GPU?

My windows 10 VM will also run xprotect+. so i guess the Hardware Acceleration is done on that VM too.

[UPS Battery consumption, running single vm vs multiple VM's]

Hi, currently i'm running physical windows installation for casual gaming (RTX 2060) + milestone and vmware player for HA.

I'm thinking of using unraid and separate it into 3 VMs :

- VM for HA installation 

- VM for milestone

- VM for gaming

So my plan is if a blackout occurs i intend to keep the VM for milestone running, and shutdown other VMs, that way the recording wont stop.

Something i couldn't do with physical installation cause i prefer to shut the whole machine down ASAP.

But there are few things i want to clarify :

1. Would running partial resource like this (only a single core VM) saves more UPS battery and thus more beneficial compared to baremetal?

2. The only reason i hesitate doing this until now is that i'm afraid gaming experience wont be as smooth as baremetal installation, any potential stability issues that i should be aware of?

 

 

[Intel Socket 1151 Motherboards with IPMI AND Support for iGPU]

Came across this topic when i found out my X11SCL-IF couldnt do quicksync, 

a few questions :

1 . Anyone ever used this asrock board + Blueiris + quicksync combo ? 

2. Regarding the IPMI and IGPU trade-off, has anyone tried "duplicate view" on windows 10 to get IPMI working along with external monitor?

My X11SBA-F could do this, but strangely my X11SCA-F couldn't do this. I guess it's BIOS limitation thing..

But i guess since i plan to use RTX 2060 hooked up to my monitor this shouldn't be an issue right?

[Notes about Supermicro X11SCA-F]

19 minutes ago, Beginner89 said:

Alright guys, i think i have good news for everyone!

There is a new BIOS out (on the official website of SuperMicro) for the X11SCA-F, version 1.4.

 

I installed it and did following:

- Remove Quadro P2000

- Reset BIOS to default

- Primary Display : PCI
- Internal Graphics: Enable

- Switch off

- Build in Quadro P2000 again

- Start

- IPMI & Quadro P2000 works

 

So, now i can passthrough my P2000 to my Windows Plex VM AND use at the same time IPMI with all its features.

I did several reboots, disconnected the power cord and started again -> everything works! The last times it worked only for the first boot after setting it up as mentioned, now it seems to work always!

 

Have fun, maybe someone can double-check, if i don't have hallucinations.

Thats great news! Are you by any chance using external monitor?

 

Ive been trying to get ipmi working with external monitor but they always cancel each other, any chance you could test it with this new bios?

[Notes about Supermicro X11SCA-F]

9 hours ago, Beginner89 said:

Ah okay, now i understand. That's neither a nice option.

 

Just it is weird, it definately worked for months in my Supermicro-Server in the way i wanted, like shown in the screenshot above.

I hope someone finds the proper settings, to get it working. I spent another half day of trying all the settings and now I am fed up about spending my time in it.

My bad, i didnt read your first post in this thread, if you're using gpu card then its different with my case. I'm relying on intel igpu alone. I'm pretty sure i read somewhere your setup should work. Do you have monitor plugged,? and following the bios setup recommended in this thread?

[Notes about Supermicro X11SCA-F]

12 minutes ago, Beginner89 said:

I can't find this option in my BIOS. I checked all the pages, but it doesn't appear anywhere.

 

I get IPMI working, but then the P2000 remains in Error 43 state and doesn't work. 🙄
cpuid settings etc. don't make any change.

Its not on the bios, its under esxi's advanced option. Once you disable svga you'll lose access to console view though, which is basically the "ipmi" for the VM. Thats why i said its not ideal in my previous post

[Notes about Supermicro X11SCA-F]

@bwnautilus

Do you have monitor plugged? try unplugging it, it was the solution for me, although i was running baremetal, not unraid.

 

@Beginner89 I believe you need to set svga to false under advanced option > edit configuration

 

Btw, for those who got IGPU + IKVM working on unraid, does it also disable the console display? 

It seems to be case for esxi, svga needs to be set at false, otherwise IGPU passthrough wont work, it means i can only rely on rdesktop.

Not ideal for 24/7 server though

[Use only the virtualization feature?]

Hi all, i'm new at this virtualization stuff so please bear with me.

i'm currently using drivepool + windows server 2019, along with diskless server and mikrotik server.

 

Now I'm tempted to virtualize all 3 servers together and i'm in process of finding which one is suitable for me.

My setup requires me to passthrough my intel UHD. So hyper-v is off the list (can't find anything on the net about p/t igpu)

That brings me to my initial choice which is esxi, but due to higher cost and rather steep learning curve i'm considering unraid now,

but the problem is my drivepool server has 22 drives, and from my understanding unraid doesn't work with NTFS,

So that would require me to move all my 22 drives to new formats, and i'm not sure if i can afford the downtime or buy the necessary drives.

So i was wondering is it possible to use the virtualization feature alone and virtualiza my windows server 2019 ?

 

[Notes about Supermicro X11SCA-F]

@ramblinreck47 I'm using windows server with physical machine, not unraid, and i managed to do it with above settings except syslinux.cfg 

The Primary display settings was a bit tricky to find, i think i had to go through display agent menu or something (CMIIW)

Just a catch though, you wont be able to use any monitor, the IKVM will display black screen if you plug it to a monitor.

[Notes about Supermicro X11SCA-F]

Well i finally found the settings, turns out its inside CPU settings, silly me.

But i ran into another problem, IKVM only works during BIOS, on windows it shows black screen.

Tried chrome, IPMIview, console redirection. IPMI view android, But all are the same.

checked the firmware and it's already up to date,

 

any thoughts?

 

Edit : turns out i have to unplug the monitor!

It's working now, thank goodness.

[Notes about Supermicro X11SCA-F]

Well, i managed to get quicksync working with IGPU enabled.

And the monitor goes through HDMI.

IPMI is also working, but not the IKVM,

Is it possible to have IKVM working with HDMI display and quicksync enabled?

 

On 2/5/2019 at 4:46 PM, burg3 said:

I don't use unraid yet, but I can confirm I have IPMI VGA remote console working alongside with working IGFX Quicksync or other 3D offloading tasks.
This is working with either Windows physical machine or in ESXI where you setup Intel IGFX for passthrough so your VM can use Quicksync (tested with Windows VM)
I was not able achieve simultaneous picture from IPMI VGA remote console and IGFX connected digital display though.
Either IPMI VGA has active display or IGFX, but not both at same time, I guess this really BIOS limitation, but at least you should be able to use Quicksync with IPMI VGA remote console.

X11SCA-F BIOS settings

Primary Display : PCI
Internal Graphics: Enable

after reboot IGFX GOP Version is populated in BIOS.

 

Other observations with this board someone could use.
Passthrough of motherboard AHCI controller is possible with ESXI, but only when you boot your VM with BIOS. With EFI VM gets powered off.
You can use HDD ATA Security with compatible drives (User HDD Password)

 

@burg3 I dont see PCI as primary display, or do you have GPU installed on the machine? 

[Notes about Supermicro X11SCA-F]

On 3/2/2019 at 5:28 AM, rinseaid said:

Quick update for anyone else looking into this board. In BIOS revision 1.0a, when activating the iGPU any external GPU would be disabled and not show up in lspci. After applying BIOS 1.0b, this now works. So, it's possible to have the BMC VGA adapter for iKVM, iGPU for hardware transcoding/passthrough, and at least one additional PCI-E GPU (I've only tested a single GPU).

Hi rinseaid, i just got this board, 

I plan to use quicksync for emby and blueiris,

But i dont wanna lose ipmi functionality

I'm not using any gpu, just an lsi sas card.

I cant seem to find the settings to change the primary display to igpu, the bios is already 1.0c, Am i missing something here? 

[Notes about Supermicro X11SCA-F]

There seems to be 2 versions, F and F-O

Is the difference between them only additional VGA port?

 

Also, what's the conclusion of the IGPu and IPMI with the newest BIOS?

 

I plan to use 3 of these, but one of them requires quicksync for Blueiris, the other 2 i probably will need igpu just for direct access, which can be subtituted by IPMI i guess

[Notes about Supermicro X11SCA-F]

1 hour ago, rinseaid said:

I am using the i7-8700 in my build, so you'll be good with that CPU. As long as you use the BIOS settings and syslinux.cfg listed in this thread, you will be able to expose the iGFX to unRAID, and should then be able to map the devices to the Emby Docker. This has been explained in other threads, so I'm just confirming that this will work in theory specific to this hardware configuration.

Thanks rinseaid, but i don't use unraid at all, i think i signed up in this forum long time ago, 

but i havent tried unraid yet because of hardware issue.

(And besides, i'm using drivepool now, so i'm not sure how both of them would work together)

Glad to hear the CPU is compatible, but how would i do the same for non-unraid physical server?

More specifically, i'm talking about this,

 

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By passing i915.disable_display=1 to the kernel options,

 

the BIOS part i can understand, but i can't figure out how to do that, the OS is windows 2016 server btw,

[Notes about Supermicro X11SCA-F]

On 2/5/2019 at 4:46 PM, burg3 said:

I don't use unraid yet, but I can confirm I have IPMI VGA remote console working alongside with working IGFX Quicksync or other 3D offloading tasks.
This is working with either Windows physical machine or in ESXI where you setup Intel IGFX for passthrough so your VM can use Quicksync (tested with Windows VM)
I was not able achieve simultaneous picture from IPMI VGA remote console and IGFX connected digital display though.
Either IPMI VGA has active display or IGFX, but not both at same time, I guess this really BIOS limitation, but at least you should be able to use Quicksync with IPMI VGA remote console.

X11SCA-F BIOS settings

Primary Display : PCI
Internal Graphics: Enable

after reboot IGFX GOP Version is populated in BIOS.

 

Other observations with this board someone could use.
Passthrough of motherboard AHCI controller is possible with ESXI, but only when you boot your VM with BIOS. With EFI VM gets powered off.
You can use HDD ATA Security with compatible drives (User HDD Password)

 

 

On 2/7/2019 at 7:41 AM, rinseaid said:

My understanding is that blacklisting a module prevents it from automatically loading, but when manually loading the module with modprobe it overrides the blacklist. The modprobe is required to get the /dev/dri device to show up, which is needed to use QuickSync.

 

Edit:

Good news! Thinking about loading the module got me wondering that maybe there was an option to disable display output. After some searching, I found the appropriately named option disable_display. Setting this option prevents the module from trying to activate a display. By passing i915.disable_display=1 to the kernel options, along with the BIOS settings burg3 provided, prevents the IPMI VGA disconnecting. And /dev/dri still shows up! I need to test this with Plex HW transcoding still, but I'm confident it's going to work.

 

@Tybio: maybe this board could last you 10 years after all!!!

 

Hi, i plan to buy this board and i came across this topic,

thing is. I dont virtualize, it's a regular physical server and i plan to use quicksync for Emby,

2 questions :

1. Any potential issues with i7 8700? Since it's non-xeon

2. How would i achieve above with my setup? from my understanding those are unraid setup yes?