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That's right. It also took me a few minutes to figure that out. Hello you all, I also managed to get Mojave installed as a VM and everything seems to work properly. The only thing I'm waiting for are the NVIDIA Web Drivers for Mojave. Then my passed through GTX 960 will work again. Best regards Schlichi

I have a Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD3H Mainboard with 16 GB RAM DDR3 RAM and two GPUs: NVIDIA GT 710 (for booting UNRAID) and an NVIDIA GTX 960 for passthrough to Windows 10 and macOS. You can see my whole hardware in my Signature. Greets Schlichi

After the first installation sequence there is a reboot. Then in Clover you have to select "Install macOS..." in Clover - NOT the regular "Start macOS...". Greets Schlichi

Here GPU passthrough works without any issues. Greets Schlichi

Glad I could help... Greets Schlichi

You‘re missing the whole qemu:arg stuff at the end of the XML. Without that, the VM won‘t be able to boot. Important: You lose your manual editings of the XML file if you use the regular VM mask of UNRAID again afterwards. Greets Schlichi

Can you post your XML? Greets Schlichi

I only use <qemu:arg value='Penryn,vendor=GenuineIntel,kvm=on,+invtsc,vmware-cpuid-freq=on,'/> @gridrunner: What does +avx,+aes,+xsave,+xsaveopt do? Greets Schlichi

Hi! I switched to UNRAID just a few weeks ago and I'm VERY happy with it. I even sold my MacMini after getting my macOS VM running smoothly and got a MacBook Air instead. My macOS VM now is a lot faster than my Mac Mini was before. I got a Xeon E3-1231v3 with 4 cores (8 threads). I assigned two cores solely to my VMs and two cores to UNRAID, Plex, TVHeadend etc. First I also thought about having macOS and Windows VMs running at the same time. But that requires two GPUs for the VMs and doesn't leave enough resources for Plex and all my Dockers. I decided to go for a solution to switch between macOS and Windows and therefore having more powerful VMs (even gaming is possible). Of course you can always get a CPU with more cores - then running macOS and Windows at the same time while still having enough resources for Dockers won't be a problem. But then you need an own GPU for every VM (or use VNC instead). My UNRAID setup now has: - Plex (as a Docker) - TVHeadend (3x DVB-S2, 1x DVB-C) for Live TV & PVR (as a Docker) - oscam (for descrambling German HD+ channels) (as a Docker) - JDownloader (as a Docker) - SABnzbd (as a Docker) - webgrabplus (for getting EPG data to TVHeadend) (as a Docker) All the dockers only use CPUset 0 and 4 - except Plex & TVHeadend - they use 0, 4, 1 and 5 because they can do transcoding. My Windows 10 and macOS VM have CPUset 2,3,6,7 - a passedthrough NVIDIA GTX 960 GPU, a passed through USB 3.0 PCIe controller (Inateck), a passed through AWBW Hackintosh WLAN/Bluetooth card (Broadcom BCM43602) and a USB Soundcard (connected directly to the passed through USB 3.0 card). gridrunners Tutorials really helped me a lot (Thank you!)... Greets Schlichi

Hi guys, I just wanted to let you know that I got my GTX 960 yesterday and I'm VERY happy with it. It worked out of the box for me, because I had already installed the NVidia Web Drivers in OS X before (using my GT 710). OS X runs a lot more smooth with the new GPU. Now it really feels like a genuine Mac. However, HEVC Hardware decoding in macOS does NOT work. But that was expected. It does however work in Windows 10 - e.g. with MPC-HC or Kodi (it doesn't work with VLC). I played a few 4K HDR movies and my CPU barely went above 20% while I had perfect playback. :-) I also started downloading a few Game-Demos in Windows 10 to test the cards gaming capabilities. But that took too long yesterday, so I will test that tonight. Now my UNRAID server is perfect for me. Greets Schlichi

You assumed correctly. I don't know if you know any German - but Amazon says the following about my card: - Keine Stromanbindung mehr erforderlich, dank optimierter Leiterarchitektur This means: - No external power supply needed anymore, thanks to optimated circuit architecture. The card gets the power from the PCIe slot. I have connected a few things directly in the card (e.g. Bluetooth or my USB soundcard). In the active USB hub I have currently only connected my Mac Keyboard and Mouse. I bought the hub primarily to have USB ports ON my desk and not below it, so I could conventiently plug in USB harddrives or my iOS devices. Greets Schlichi

No problem: I use this one: https://www.amazon.de/Inateck-USB-Karte-Port-Expresskarte/dp/B00HJ1DULE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1517213668&sr=8-1&keywords=mac+pro+usb3+pcie Working out of the box in macOS High Sierra. I also use an active USB 3.0 hub and it works without any issues. Exactly. I had to do this as well. You can follow this guide: Greets Schlichi

THANK you for this thread! For macOS High Sierra I use this icon: Have fun! Greetings Schlichi

This question of mine hasn't been answered yet. Anybody got an idea where this comes from? Is it maybe because I used hostdev and not qemu:arg for passing through my GPU and my USB3 controller to the macOS VM? Greets Schlichi

Don't worry. Of course I googled a bit and what I found supported your statement, that the GTX 960 can indeed decode H.265/HEVC in Windows. It should also be WAY sufficient for my other needs, as I'm only a very casual gamer and also got a PS4... I don't want to spend 300€or more for a GPU that I don't really need. A used GTX 960 for 90-100€ would be okay. Especially because my CPU is "only" a Xeon E3-1231v3. Greets Schlichi