August 9, 20169 yr Hi all, While I am still reading through ways to get my PCI NICs with the same device IDs working, I would like a little help understanding VirtIO and how to use it to my advantage. I am hoping to set up a Sophos UTM in a VM on my build. Yes, I've read everyone's thoughts on why I shouldn't do that, but I would still like to give it a go, and plus ESXi will not recognize my consumer-grade Intel NICs. So I was thinking I want to take advantage of VirtIO and have the switching for everything on my unRAID box done internally, then out to the network, instead of having it go down the copper just to come back again. So, I've envisioned this setup. Pass one physical NIC to the VM without getting IOMMU errors (still trying to figure that out) for the WAN side, LAN side goes to VirtIO to do internal switching to the unRAID services, then out through unRAID's NIC to the network. This is based off of the reading I've done so far. I'm still rather new to this (avid lurker, first-time poster), so I may be off base. Does this setup seem sound? How would I go about assigning the virtual NIC to my VM then? Thanks.
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