July 10, 201213 yr I am in the process of renewing my unRaid box with a Norco RPC-4224 and SUPERMICRO MBD-X9SCM-F-O. I was going to buy the Intel Core i3-2100 but then suddenly my desktop died, so I though again about ESXi. The only reason I would even consider a desktop is to use Photoshop and Lightroom, although I'm not really a heavy user on these. Do yo have any experience on running Photoshop withing a virtualized machine in ESXi. What would be the hardware requirements, mainly CPU and RAM? Would it be possible to run: unRAID Win 7/XP for Photoshop and some video editing A light Win 7 machine for my wife PS: I already asked about ESXi and Virtual box in this topic (http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=20605.msg182839#msg182839). I had made my mind (so I though) to go with VirtualBox but my desktop died, so the ESXi idea keeps bumping into my head
July 10, 201213 yr I am in the process of renewing my unRaid box with a Norco RPC-4224 and SUPERMICRO MBD-X9SCM-F-O. I was going to buy the Intel Core i3-2100 but then suddenly my desktop died, so I though again about ESXi. The only reason I would even consider a desktop is to use Photoshop and Lightroom, although I'm not really a heavy user on these. Do yo have any experience on running Photoshop withing a virtualized machine in ESXi. What would be the hardware requirements, mainly CPU and RAM? Would it be possible to run: unRAID Win 7/XP for Photoshop and some video editing A light Win 7 machine for my wife PS: I already asked about ESXi and Virtual box in this topic (http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=20605.msg182839#msg182839). I had made my mind (so I though) to go with VirtualBox but my desktop died, so the ESXi idea keeps bumping into my head passthrough will not work with i3-2100 get a xeon you will need that for unraid to make it simple its what i have makes it so much easyer
July 10, 201213 yr Author passthrough will not work with i3-2100 get a xeon you will need that for unraid to make it simple its what i have makes it so much easyer and did you get Photoshop to work, including OpenGL support and 3D hardware accelerated graphics? what about PCi/integrated GPU passthrough?
July 11, 201213 yr passthrough will not work with i3-2100 get a xeon you will need that for unraid to make it simple its what i have makes it so much easyer and did you get Photoshop to work, including OpenGL support and 3D hardware accelerated graphics? what about PCi/integrated GPU passthrough? i don't use Photoshop so i cant comment on that... i tryed passing a video card but couldn't get that to work (haven't spent enough time on it)
July 17, 201213 yr Author passthrough will not work with i3-2100 get a xeon you will need that for unraid to make it simple its what i have makes it so much easyer and did you get Photoshop to work, including OpenGL support and 3D hardware accelerated graphics? what about PCi/integrated GPU passthrough? i don't use Photoshop so i cant comment on that... i tryed passing a video card but couldn't get that to work (haven't spent enough time on it) Anyone? Sent from my GT-P7500 using Tapatalk 2
July 18, 201213 yr GPU passthough is very tricky and might need a hack.. last time i did it, it was a hack. a little google on the VM support forums will point you in the correct direction. most people have only gotten very few cards to work, mostly ATI. You can use the emulated 3D in esxi with open GL support. not sure how good it would work for day to day heavy work in PS but for light work and droplets it works. i have CS5 on mine.
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