I want to thank everyone I got the server built and running smoothly

However now I'm getting black screen VMs

https://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=42678.0

 

But i did want to take minute and thank everyone on the hardware board who chimed in and may not head over to the KVM Hypervisor board

 

What a fun holiday it's been...I finally got the VM up and running

And randomly picking a benchmark (FF14) I really don't see a difference between a stand alone gaming rig and a VM...mostly (explained below)

So a couple more little build questions for you guys or maybe the VM thread...not sure

 

1) Right now I have the Win 10 VM built onto a SSD not cached, in fact my system as it is has no cache drive (I've never used them in the past) but now I"m noticing little slows in the VM and wondering if I should get another SSD for a cache or take the one I have installed and you put the VM on an HD and cache it to the SSD.  Watching youtube, downloading or extracting there are huge sections of slow to stopping in terms of response, is that where a cache shines?

 

2) I need to get an SATA card to expand the box does it need to have a riad feature to work with Unraid or can a 20 dollar one off newegg do the trick?

 

3) When I allocated the 16GB of RAM 12GB is heading to the VM, is that the same of it a physical box has 12GB or does it loose a little something something because it's a VM?  Should I buy two more sticks of * to bring the server's total to 32 and allocate more to the VM?

 

4) I need a much bigger tower to fit everything nicely, are the corsair 750D onward good towers or are there better "mega" towers for cheaper?

 

5) right now i have only one ethernet doing the server work and VM, should l I get a separate ethernet card for teh VM to avoid bottlenecking, or are my delays I mentioned above related to the lack of a cache?

 

And finally a non unraid build question I can't seem to search for on google properly

I'd like to eventually build a steam OS VM

Has anyone tried having steam on a windows VM and another VM (Mac linux of SteamOS) both point to one common share where all the game data is located, is that possible? Not the save files just the app stuff (the 60GB FFXIII files etc)

 

Again I want to thank everyone in advance for their help, I am loving this new world of VMs!