March 16, 201610 yr I'm thinking of getting a motherboard that has no IPMI and a CPU without integrated graphics. Can I boot the unRAID server using a graphics card to set up BIOS, etc. if necessary, and then start up a VM and assign the same graphics card to the VM? I just want to be able to monitor the unRAID startup when necessary, but don't want to waste a slot and graphics card just for that purpose, if possible.
March 16, 201610 yr Yes you can use just one card. However when you start the vm with the passthrough you will loose the unraid console on the GPU until you reboot the server. It can be hard to passthrough an Nvidea GPU if it is the only GPU in the system although a few people on the forum have done this http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=43644.msg452576#msg452576
March 16, 201610 yr Author Thanks for the point about Nvidia GPUs. OK, I understand that I lose the console, but I assume I can still at least get to the web-based GUI? And what is the console used for after unRAID has booted up successfully?
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