September 30, 20205 yr Author Yes, but I failed to mention that. It ran for roughly 24 hours (16 or 17 passes) with no errors. Thanks so much for your help. Everyone here has been more than patient with my never-ending questions. I will start looking for motherboards today.
September 30, 20205 yr Author I have now gone down the VM rabbit hole with my research. My main windows PC uses an i7-8700k, a Z370 Killer SLI/ac motherboard, GTX 1050 Ti, 16GB memory and a 500 GB NVMe drive. 1. After researching, I think this would be sufficient to convert my windows machine to UNRAID + windows VM. I would also use a Plex docker. Would I need to beef up any of the hardware? 2. I am fine with tinkering to get it to work, but would there be any limitations to using VM for my everyday Windows machine that I may be overlooking?
September 30, 20205 yr 51 minutes ago, JukeBug said: I have now gone down the VM rabbit hole with my research. Thats an approach that many people seem to take. Just keep in mind that you *may* run into stability issues since windows is in a VM (not saying you will and probably wont), but just keep that in mind that it may crash/lockup. I personally run 2 windows VMs 24/7 with absolutely no issues (~150 days uptime) - but the potential is always there. 51 minutes ago, JukeBug said: 1. After researching, I think this would be sufficient to convert my windows machine to UNRAID + windows VM. I would also use a Plex docker. Would I need to beef up any of the hardware? That would be a good approach and the cpu has a good amount of cores/threads to share between the VM and unraid/plex. It also depends on what you want to use the windows VM for. With plex, if you transcode, you may run into issues depending on how many cores you assign to the VM vs leaving free for unraid and the content to transcode. 51 minutes ago, JukeBug said: 2. I am fine with tinkering to get it to work, but would there be any limitations to using VM for my everyday Windows machine that I may be overlooking? Depends on what you want to use it for. Gaming? Surfing the web? You just want to make sure that you keep enough cores available to unraid (maybe 4 threads max for VM and 8 for unraid). Too many people assign all of their cores to the VM and leave nothing for unraid to manage the VM with. If you want to test, just pull your windows HD out and try booting that system with your flash. If you feel comfortable, you could try creating a VM and using the HD with the windows install as your disk. I believe their are tutorials out there for converting a baremetal w10 to a VM. I would recommend a flash drive backup before doing this just in case. EDIT: I forgot the most important thing - you need to make sure that your IOMMU groups are split ideally for VM use. It would probably be a good idea to have a few USB ports on its own group. That would allow you to pass them through and allow them to natively function within windows (so you can easily plug in flash drive, etc) Edited September 30, 20205 yr by civic95man
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