July 30, 20169 yr I am looking for a solution to dualboot Linux and Windows simultaneously on the same PC (Xeon E3-1270 v5 system), where I'd like to use both operating systems for gaming. I'm fed up with rebooting to switch OS so I'm trying to get around that by using virtualization. I have a (old) AMD Radeon HD-5770 card installed and a new Nvidia GTX 1070. The Xeon CPU I'm using does not have IGP (probably should've bought the E3-1275 V5, but alas, I didn't). Is this possible at all / using unRAID, using this hardware configuration? I've been trying to set it up with a trial license (6.2.0 RC3), but I have serious issues getting it set up. I configured an array for storage, uploaded installation ISOs to the SMB share and created two VM's, assigning one GPU (Nvidia GTX 1070) to a Windows 7 VM and one GPU (Radeon HD5770) to the Debian VM. The NVidia card forces itself as the primary GPU, even when I select the Radeon PCIe slot in UEFI configuration, so unraid is also using my nvidia card during boot. When I boot the Windows 7 VM, the unraid display turns off (as expected) but doesn't come up again. When I boot up the Debian VM, the Radeon card doesn't give any output at all. I tried changing the Windows 7 VM to the Radeon card. In that case, it does give output. I also tried changing the Debian VM to the nvidia card. That doesn't give any output either. Another weird thing is that I can't boot them up simultaneously, it will always claim that the other VM is using PCI device 02:00 (which is the Radeon card), even though I configured one of them to use nvidia. Is this issue being caused by me not having a third GPU (IGP) dedicated to unRAID? If so, does that imply that what I'm trying to do here is not possible at all (using unRAID)? Thanks for any feedback or suggestions!
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