snolly Posted March 5, 2020 Share Posted March 5, 2020 Hello all, I am using Unraid for more than a year now for storage and docker apps. Could not be happier. I currently have a Mac Mini with an eGPU enclosure with an AMD Radeon 5700XT in it. I am going to upgrade the Unraid HW and I was thinking if I should invest on an i5/i7 put the 5700XT in the Unraid box and try and set up a Win10 VM for gaming and a MacOS VM for general use/video editing. Both of them need to be able to be GPU accelerated so I can get rid of the Mini and the eGPU enclosure. Browsing and reading for the last hour I cannot understand whether this is doable or not. There is the dreaded navi reset bug that I understand has not been resolved in Unraid 6.8.2 So what's possible at the moment. If one uses a NVidia GPU then there are no drivers for macOS. Is the whole thing non-approachable for the moment? If not then I will just buy a 9th gen Pentium G CPUjust for the HW transcode in Plex and abandon the whole VM scenario. Regards Quote Link to comment
testdasi Posted March 5, 2020 Share Posted March 5, 2020 Abandon the VM scenario. If you have to use a Mac, use a proper Mac. Going Hackintosh alone is already a risky venture, let alone going Hackintosh in a VM. Of course, if you don't have to use a Mac then use something else. If you have a lot of money, donate to your nearest charity instead of fattening Apple's balance sheet. Quote Link to comment
snolly Posted March 5, 2020 Author Share Posted March 5, 2020 (edited) 3 minutes ago, testdasi said: Abandon the VM scenario. If you have to use a Mac, use a proper Mac. Going Hackintosh alone is already a risky venture, let alone going Hackintosh in a VM. Of course, if you don't have to use a Mac then use something else. If you have a lot of money, donate to your nearest charity instead of fattening Apple's balance sheet. I don't have to use a Mac for work, I like the ecosystem along with my iOS devices. I prefer it for generic use and some occasional video editing. So I am willing to give hackintosh a try. Edited March 5, 2020 by snolly Quote Link to comment
podlipny Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 did you manage the passtrough? I have similar setup i9900K with RX 5700 XT and I am currently running bare metal hackintosh, but I would loike to migrate to unRaid and set up windows 10 VM and Mac OS X VM with GPU passtrough Quote Link to comment
mSedek Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 Same boat, cant passthrough My 5700xt to Catalina but has success with windows and ubuntu. Any solution? Quote Link to comment
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