GuilhermeFluis Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 Just a quick question... Can Unraid run truly headless? Right now I have a old-ish core I5 that I'm testing as a Unraid Server. Also I have a Geforce 970 that I'm using as passthough to a Windows 10 VM. I would love to upgrade this to a Xeon (mostly for the hypertreading, but I'm avoiding I7 because the price is too much for me) My mobo does not support headless boot, but for the mobo I have a graphics card that has a valid bios that will boot just fine (the 970) right now I'm running Unraid from the IGP of the I5. If I get the Xeon I would lose the IGP... could this work in somehow? Like I don't need to use the console of the unraid right on the sever, I can always SSH to it... But it seem very strange to me boot from one video card and then dropping it to the VM and all this juggling... And although I still have one PCI-E slot, I really would like to use it for other things, and I don't have another video card to put in there. Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 21 hours ago, GuilhermeFluis said: Can Unraid run truly headless? Unraid itself can run headless, if the motherboard will boot that way. However, if there is a video card present, the motherboard may keep it from being reassigned to a VM. It's not unraid, it's the hardware that determines whether it will work the way you want. Quote Link to comment
Ver7o Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 I boot my unraid in headless mode with a dedicated GPU and without an iGPU on the CPU. The dedicated GPU then passes to any VM I choose to start without a problem. Does that qualify as truly headless? Quote Link to comment
meep Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 58 minutes ago, Ver7o said: I boot my unraid in headless mode with a dedicated GPU and without an iGPU on the CPU. The dedicated GPU then passes to any VM I choose to start without a problem. Does that qualify as truly headless? This works for me as well (ASRock Taichi X399, multiple AMD X5n0 cards). In a previous configuration, I had up to 4 discrete GPUs in my system all passed through to VMs. As noted, passing through the unRAID boot GPU can be finicky, but is entirely possible with the right hardware combination. Quote Link to comment
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