October 8, 20169 yr I have been a user of unraid for a while and have a server setup.But this is my first post on the forum. What i was wondering is i have an old laptop. I was wondering if i could setup unraid on this so i can test out 6.3 beta. I don't care about having an array obviously but would like to try out the quemu 2.7 in this. Can passthrough of graphics on a laptop be done. I know 6.3 has support for igpu? Would be cool to use a laptop as portable unraid for me to test and access it with my tablet.
October 8, 20169 yr It'll run. But whether or not the laptop will support the igpu passthrough, etc is a different story. Try and see is your best bet
October 9, 20169 yr Author It'll run. But whether or not the laptop will support the igpu passthrough, etc is a different story. Try and see is your best bet Thanks i will give it a go and let you know how i get on.
October 9, 20169 yr I have been a user of unraid for a while and have a server setup.But this is my first post on the forum. What i was wondering is i have an old laptop. I was wondering if i could setup unraid on this so i can test out 6.3 beta. I don't care about having an array obviously but would like to try out the quemu 2.7 in this. Can passthrough of graphics on a laptop be done. I know 6.3 has support for igpu? Would be cool to use a laptop as portable unraid for me to test and access it with my tablet. I'm curious on the laptop make/model.
October 21, 20169 yr Just an FYI, we attempted some testing on this using both a MacBook Pro and a random HP laptop we had laying around. Both of these devices had dual integrated graphics (standard Intel + an NVIDIA GPU for accelerating 3D graphics). Due to the custom nature of these setups and how they switch between integrated Intel and NVIDIA devices, we had no success with GPU pass through. That said, if we had a laptop that solely had Intel graphics on board, in theory, it should work. We'll do more testing with this in the future but for now, just know that supporting GPU pass through on a laptop is harder than supporting it on a traditional desktop/server/workstation.
October 21, 20169 yr Just an FYI, we attempted some testing on this using both a MacBook Pro and a random HP laptop we had laying around. Both of these devices had dual integrated graphics (standard Intel + an NVIDIA GPU for accelerating 3D graphics). Due to the custom nature of these setups and how they switch between integrated Intel and NVIDIA devices, we had no success with GPU pass through. That said, if we had a laptop that solely had Intel graphics on board, in theory, it should work. We'll do more testing with this in the future but for now, just know that supporting GPU pass through on a laptop is harder than supporting it on a traditional desktop/server/workstation. Jonp i just tried the same as you this week with a mackbook pro!! But what i did was run it using a 64 gig flash drive for the whole array then passthough the ssd containing its own osx operating system then running that as a vm! It was cool doing it but like you said no gpu pass through. If you are interested you can see a video of this here http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=51915.msg509056#new
October 21, 20169 yr Just an FYI, we attempted some testing on this using both a MacBook Pro and a random HP laptop we had laying around. Both of these devices had dual integrated graphics (standard Intel + an NVIDIA GPU for accelerating 3D graphics). Due to the custom nature of these setups and how they switch between integrated Intel and NVIDIA devices, we had no success with GPU pass through. That said, if we had a laptop that solely had Intel graphics on board, in theory, it should work. We'll do more testing with this in the future but for now, just know that supporting GPU pass through on a laptop is harder than supporting it on a traditional desktop/server/workstation. Jonp i just tried the same as you this week with a mackbook pro!! But what i did was run it using a 64 gig flash drive for the whole array then passthough the ssd containing its own osx operating system then running that as a vm! It was cool doing it but like you said no gpu pass through. If you are interested you can see a video of this here http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=51915.msg509056#new Whoa! That's pretty damn cool! I wasn't brave enough to try passing through the entire SSD built into the mac (didn't want something to mess up the OS X install on that computer) but I'm glad you did and confirmed that it worked. Sadly without GPU pass through, it's kinda pointless.
October 22, 20169 yr Dual graphics fails for special reasons: Proprietary schemes of sharing the output ports and the internal display between the two GPUs. I don't know if there's a soft switch between the devices in some systems, like maybe AMD, but I do know that the Intel/Nvidia solution involves an NV chip that has no hardware display ports, and the software running on the machine DMAs its frame buffer to an off-screen surface of the integrated graphics, which actually is wired to the display and ports. Sure, you could have display virtualization, but certainly never display pass-through, as the underlying OS would not know what to do with a display adapter with zero attached ports. And I don't think that KVM+Qemu supports display virtualization like that.
October 22, 20169 yr would it be possible to start a docker off unRAID ? It would help a lot in testing some stuff.
October 22, 20169 yr would it be possible to start a docker off unRAID ? It would help a lot in testing some stuff. Not quite sure what you are asking? unRAID supports running docker containers so if that is the question then there should be no problem. You would probably want to start by installing the Community Applications plugin as that provides a GUI based way of finding and installing docker containers. If it is something else then maybe you need to clarify the question.
October 22, 20169 yr would it be possible to start a docker off unRAID ? It would help a lot in testing some stuff. Not quite sure what you are asking? unRAID supports running docker containers so if that is the question then there should be no problem. You would probably want to start by installing the Community Applications plugin as that provides a GUI based way of finding and installing docker containers. If it is something else then maybe you need to clarify the question. Hi itimpi, right ... no I actually meant running an unRAID docker, aside from licensing issues, it would help (me as a developer) to be able to easily spin up different unRAID versions .. its possible to load a virtualbox unraid, but its not as easy as a docker unraid
October 22, 20169 yr would it be possible to start a docker off unRAID ? It would help a lot in testing some stuff. Not quite sure what you are asking? unRAID supports running docker containers so if that is the question then there should be no problem. You would probably want to start by installing the Community Applications plugin as that provides a GUI based way of finding and installing docker containers. If it is something else then maybe you need to clarify the question. Hi itimpi, right ... no I actually meant running an unRAID docker, aside from licensing issues, it would help (me as a developer) to be able to easily spin up different unRAID versions .. its possible to load a virtualbox unraid, but its not as easy as a docker unraid There is no doker unRAID but easy to run an unRAID as vm. I did a video a while back here http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=52403.0
October 22, 20169 yr I've been running an Unraid VM for dev stuff since the beginning of the year and it is very useful. In addition to gridrunners video guide there's also a written on on linxserver.io Between them you should be able to get one up and running. Sent from my LG-H815 using Tapatalk
October 23, 20169 yr unRAID 6.2 includes a feature that make it a lot easier to run an unRAID VM on an unRAID host, you no longer have to stub out your USB controller. See this comment for modifications to the excellent LS.IO blog.
October 24, 20169 yr unRAID 6.2 includes a feature that make it a lot easier to run an unRAID VM on an unRAID host, you no longer have to stub out your USB controller. See this comment for modifications to the excellent LS.IO blog. Thanks ! I'll try that out
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