July 17, 20187 yr Hi everyone, Im about to set up Unraid with a gaming Win10 VM for the first time. I've done a lot of reading incl. these forums so I think I've figured out everything I need to know. There is one thin though that I cant figure out and would love some help with: how do I know which hardware to pass through to the VM and which to leave for Unraid to use? My setup is: AMD 1950x 16-core CPU 64GB RAM Asrock Fatal1ty x399 mobo with integrated 10G port GTX 1080 Ti graphics card LSI 9201 16i HBA 2 M.2 SSDs (one for cache one for VM) Onboard audio, wireless, USB3, ethernet etc And obviously a bunch of hard drives for storage I will be using the Windows VM a lot and will be using Unraid at the same time for storage, dockers (Plex, nzb, deluge etc). I know I will be passing through the Geforce card and some of my cores and RAM to the VM. What about the rest of my hardware? What do you recommend I pass through and what should I leave for unraid? Thanks.
July 17, 20187 yr 2 hours ago, txenakis said: What do you recommend I pass through and what should I leave for unraid? USB controller passthrough ( if you can ) is a definite plus. Not quite a must-have, but its awfully close Edited July 17, 20187 yr by Squid
July 17, 20187 yr Author 18 minutes ago, Squid said: USB controller passthrough ( if you can ) is a definite plus. Not quite a must-have, but its awfully close Thanks. What about the SSD which will hold the VM? Does that have to be passed through or does Unraid take care of it?
July 18, 20187 yr I'm not a pure speed freak. There is some overhead involved with having a vdisk instead of passing through a completely separate controller, but that small overhead I'm perfectly ok with.
July 18, 20187 yr Author Understood. Also what about the 10G port? Should I give it to Unraid and create a bridge in the VM or pass through?
August 20, 20187 yr On 7/17/2018 at 3:47 PM, txenakis said: Hi everyone, Im about to set up Unraid with a gaming Win10 VM for the first time. I've done a lot of reading incl. these forums so I think I've figured out everything I need to know. There is one thin though that I cant figure out and would love some help with: how do I know which hardware to pass through to the VM and which to leave for Unraid to use? My setup is: AMD 1950x 16-core CPU 64GB RAM Asrock Fatal1ty x399 mobo with integrated 10G port GTX 1080 Ti graphics card LSI 9201 16i HBA 2 M.2 SSDs (one for cache one for VM) Onboard audio, wireless, USB3, ethernet etc And obviously a bunch of hard drives for storage I will be using the Windows VM a lot and will be using Unraid at the same time for storage, dockers (Plex, nzb, deluge etc). I know I will be passing through the Geforce card and some of my cores and RAM to the VM. What about the rest of my hardware? What do you recommend I pass through and what should I leave for unraid? Thanks. Hey does your LSI 9201 work with your board? If it does can you please post your firmware level and any tricks you did to make it work?
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