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I’ve been running that setup as my main workstation for over 3 years. Use an nVidia gpu and a dedicated usb card for IO. You also need a second machine to do es

by mmmpie 8y ago

I’ve been running that setup as my main workstation for over 3 years. Use an nVidia gpu and a dedicated usb card for IO. You also need a second machine to do esx management, I have a laptop. And a second video card to see the esx console (handy when it isn’t working). Finally don’t use multiple drives for esx datastores, there is no way to remove them later (to upgrade or replace failed drives). I learnt the hard way, transferring 6TB of vms over usb 2 is not fun.

copperx 8y ago
I'm about to try qemu/kvm for a virtualized macOS solution. I have a 1050ti as my primary GPU on Linux (arguably a bad choice). What card do you recommend for GPU passthrough?
newman314 8y ago
Cool! Do you perchance have a writeup of your setup? I managed to get a High Sierra VM converted to Mojave yesterday. Previous attempts had been failing due to the VM not being APFS. This link was helpful: https://licson.net/post/vmware-apfs/ https://licson.net/post/vmware-apfs/ I started musing if trying to get an eGPU to work with a Mac VM would be possible but that might be pushing it too far. It looks like Thunderbolt 3 support might be hit or miss from what I've been able to find so far plus I do not see a lot of motherboards (Z390?) that are TB capable. Gigabyte just announced a Z390 based Designare which looked interesting. https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/gigabyte-launches-their-all-new-z390-designare-motherboard.html https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/gigabyte-launches-their-al... Current plans are: * ESXI 6.5 or 6.7 * 10G NIC * 32 or 64GB mem * mATX footprint * USB switch to control which machine keyboard/mouse goes to * MacOS VM with iGPU passthrough * Win VM with Nvidia GPU passthrough for gaming I'm hoping this allows for my dream of having two machines in one without having to dual boot. On a related note, I'm still annoyed that there does not seem to be a wealth of consumer MBs that have onboard 10G

by mmmpie 8y ago

copperx 8y ago

I'm about to try qemu/kvm for a virtualized macOS solution. I have a 1050ti as my primary GPU on Linux (arguably a bad choice). What card do you recommend for GPU passthrough?

newman314 8y ago

Cool! Do you perchance have a writeup of your setup? I managed to get a High Sierra VM converted to Mojave yesterday. Previous attempts had been failing due to the VM not being APFS. This link was helpful: https://licson.net/post/vmware-apfs/ https://licson.net/post/vmware-apfs/ I started musing if trying to get an eGPU to work with a Mac VM would be possible but that might be pushing it too far. It looks like Thunderbolt 3 support might be hit or miss from what I've been able to find so far plus I do not see a lot of motherboards (Z390?) that are TB capable. Gigabyte just announced a Z390 based Designare which looked interesting. https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/gigabyte-launches-their-all-new-z390-designare-motherboard.html https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/gigabyte-launches-their-al... Current plans are: * ESXI 6.5 or 6.7 * 10G NIC * 32 or 64GB mem * mATX footprint * USB switch to control which machine keyboard/mouse goes to * MacOS VM with iGPU passthrough * Win VM with Nvidia GPU passthrough for gaming I'm hoping this allows for my dream of having two machines in one without having to dual boot. On a related note, I'm still annoyed that there does not seem to be a wealth of consumer MBs that have onboard 10G