johngc Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 Hello. After years of running a home server on Ubuntu and messing around with various programs I stumbled across unRAID, took the plunge and am loving it. My only sticking point so far is getting Zoneminder to work. I previously had it running on an Ubuntu box with video feeds coming in via two Bt878 PCI cards (cheap eBay jobs that have worked for years...). I have tried installing the Docker and whilst it runs, the cards do not appear to be available. A bit more reading led me to the conclusion that the unRAID kernel does not support the cards any doesn't look like it will (I think I understood that right from a few forum posts). The next step is a VM. I can get Ubuntu up and running but am now trying to get the cards to passthrough without much luck. I think that it may be my setup at fault now though. I have a ASUSTeK M3N78-VM board with a AMD Phenom II X4 945 cpu which I think you are probably going to say to me doesn't support IOMMU so is a no go.... Am I right in thinking that I can't get any PCI card to passthrough if my system is not IOMMU capable or is it just GPUs? If thats the case then I guess its back to the drawing board with ZM and time for some cheap IP cameras from eBay... Quote Link to comment
METDeath Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 The 780 chipset is a no go. An 890FX or 990FX would give you the best choices. However, the CPU still needs to support IOMMU (AMD-Vi) and I'm not sure if they do or not. Sadly, AMD's website isn't nearly as helpful as the Intel ARK site. I think the Phenom line supports AMD-Vi so you should be good with just a new motherboard, I had excellent luck with a ASUS 990FX board and unRAID. Granted, I was using an FX 6300 six core CPU Quote Link to comment
johngc Posted March 5, 2016 Author Share Posted March 5, 2016 Thanks METDeath. I have done a bit of googlefu and 'think' that the CPU is capable. Before I do take the plunge on a new motherboard, does any one know for sure? As you said , the AMD website isn't great and the Wikipedia page seems to suggest it is as do a few AMD forums. The way I see it, a new MB will cost the same as a couple of cheap IP cameras anyway (and be more expandable for the future ) Quote Link to comment
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