Capibilities of my server

[Faspina]

All, I started down this unraid road  because I  have been involved in home automation for a while and my home assistant and supporting components mainly on docker were scattered among sever old server.  So I managed to get a  PowerEdge T310  with Intel® Xeon® CPU X3430 @ 2.40GHz processor.  It has 8GB of memory but I can probably up that if needed. 

 

What I am trying to figure out is if I can replace a desktop with a VM (Ubuntu or Windows 7) to a Radon graphics card. The PowerEdge has a built in VGA  monitor  I get a IOMMU error   when I try to setup a VM . I googled the heck out of the error even tried some stuff in my syslinux.cfg but no luck. I am wondering if my motherboard supports passthrough to the pci ports, how do I find out.  

 

My goal here is to really figure out what this free server can do form me so I a know what I am dealing with. It does everything I need it to do by consolidating my dockers and file storage to one place. Now I want MORE!

 

Any thoughts on this

[itimpi]

If you click on the Info option in the Unraid GUI then see if it says IOMMU is available.   If so you should be able to do hardware pass through.

[Faspina]

Well it says enabled. So that is good. What do I have to do to setup a ubuntu desktop and pass through to the Radeon. This is what I get

 

internal error: qemu unexpectedly closed the monitor: 2019-02-26T16:28:54.945172Z qemu-system-x86_64: -device vfio-pci,host=04:00.0,id=hostdev0,bus=pci.4,addr=0x0: vfio error: 0000:04:00.0: failed to setup container for group 13: failed to set iommu for container: Operation not permitted

Edited February 26, 2019 by Faspina

[Faspina]

Any ideas on this?