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1. Budget & Location up to 1000 € Germany 2. Aim I want to have IP TV, Youtube, controlling smart home sutff via browser and play browser games on 2 TVs at my home and they should be able to watch their channel of choice (so i can't simply hook a steam link to one pc and stream vlc via it). 3. Monitors max.2 at a time @ 720p - 1080p 4. Peripherals Already have keyboards and mouses (loads of monitors, i5 4670k laying around, Gole 1, old laptops, loads of hdds, a steam link, raspberry pis) 5. Why are you upgrading? - Hello, this is my first post here and I hope that i finally found the right place to ask. The aim of this project is as described above and I'm looking to realize this on my amateur level. I have tried setting up the raspberry pis as something like a smart tv but i figured out that they are too slow for 1080p IPTV via VLC, so this option wonn't work. So linustechtips community how would you realize this project? I'm thankful for every answer! Ideas: 1. 2 thin clients 2. 2 Raspberry pis as thin clients? 3. 1 PC, 2 VMs,2 Steam Link? 4. 2 thin clients like a zbox/intel nuc/Compute stick and 1 server using unraid and 2 windows 10/linux mint virtual machines?

So I started a similar topic on TH but then I realized this is probably a better place to ask. I am trying to install Sims 3 on a VM for my niece (last time she had access to my pc for an extended period I got malware). The problem is that Sims 3 checks your gpu for compatability and if it isnt listed in the games gpu list then you have to add it manually. The problem is that when running a VM the virtual gpu obviously isnt on the list of supported gpus and it adding it is very hard since every manufacturer has custom made rules for their gpus. I tried tinkering and converting the rules from other manufacturers to get the virtual GPU to work but to no avail. The thing is that the game tries to set video settings to suit the gpu (which you later can change), but if it isnt recognized it wont even give you the chance to set the settings. (EA.. pls...) I got the idea that if I could change the VM gpu information in the registry to have identical information to say an nvidia 460, the game would start propperly. The thing is tho I dont really know how where to start, I need the dxdiag to output identical display info as it would with a supported gpu. I am running windows 10, I would switch to linux and make it easier on me but I cant because of adobe. Worst case scenario I might have to dualboot linux and then through that run a VM with a gpu passthrough with AMD and Nvidia at the same time (the only 2 gpus I own, sadly fx8350 doesn't intergrated graphics). Lastly; is there any possibility to create a virtual device that would mimic a gpu just cosmetically? As in only look as if a gpu is connected so that Sims can let the game launch? Thanks in advance, 1k cookie points to whoever solves this.

I have two 8.5-9GB virtual hard disks that I want to compress and put onto a 16 GB jump drive. The VHDs have windows operating systems on them and are sysprepped, but I am wondering if I can put the two VHDs into a zip file to compress it down to below 16GB and if I do, will they be usable when extracted? Not sure if this is the right part of the forum for this question, so feel free to move it if it is in the wrong area.

Well, I guess the title kinda sums it up but if you need more details to determine if it's feasible... First, here is some background on the robot's computer: the RoboRio is a microcomputer, http://www.ni.com/en-us/support/model.roborio.html, that we would need to connect via wifi (a router specifically dedicated to the RoboRio) to upload code to. 1. I am on a robotics team and we meet four times a week but us programmers don't want to take a FREAKIN' $900.00 MICROCOMPUTER HOME to test code on (the RoboRio). So my idea is to: set up a cheap laptop, put a VM on it, connect the host to the wifi (the internet connected one), and connect the VM to the other wifi (the one dedicated to the RoboRio) 2. after all the connecting and stuff we would upload code at home like this: we would open up TeamViewer, connect to the host computer at HQ, then have the VM connect to the router for the RoboRio, and then voila we could upload code to the robot all while sitting at home. I think the RobotRio is capable of getting our code via ethernet but for our situation, (remote into a computer at our HQ to upload code), in order for us to connect remotely to a computer to upload code we would need to be connected to the internet but we wouldn't be connected to the internet because in order to upload code to the RoboRio we need to be connected to the router on the robot...so you kinda see my dilemma.

Hi, Which hardware like cpu+mb+etc for running virtual machines for daily work, No gaming - better if can run bare metal (but how ?). MB need not be feature rich not even USB3.

Hello guys, My question is a little weird. First i want to run my android device"OnePlus 3T" on my Windows 10 PC. Now i know that i might be able to do that with a tool but i want it to run as a seperate VM. More specifically I want to run android native apps, not the Windows ones, which is terrible. I even want ot run the iOS version of twitter which is way better experience than android on my PC, with just a key press switching between them. I don't know much about VM's so a full step guide would be apreciated and free option as well as paid ones would be helpful. Thank you for your time.

I recently built a new pc and since then have wanted to install something like KVM for virtual machines the only limiting factor is the fact that I do not have a second gpu or integrated graphics to run the vm of of. I want to run Ubuntu server(or some other server OS) xo it doesn't need to be a good gpu just needs to output a frame to a screen I am hoping for something fairly cheap and if possible not bottlenecking my other gpu here is my current build https://pcpartpicker.com/list/FvKdvV.

This is probably impossible but can I potentially run a virtual machine on my PC that's running OS X to open a .dmg file with a game on it? Then, play the game inside the virtual machine and record the gameplay?

Hi LTT community Im looking into putting my personal computer on a VM. I want to use the windows server OS. My system has 16 GB of RAM , an i7 4790k @4.00 Ghz, asus z97-p and a GTX 1060 6GB. Of this configuration I would give the server 4 GB of RAM and 2 threads. The GPU needs to be passed though to a windows 10 VM. I only have my iPGU and the 1060 so i cannot run 2 VM's in unRaid. Is this possible and if so can someone point my at a basic guide on how to do it? Thanks in advance

I need to set up a virtual machine of windows 7 but I have no idea where to start.

I just had the most odd thing happen to me, I was playing around with speed tests and noticed that my Virtual Machine running windows 10 had a better upload and download speed than the windows 10 computer it is running on. I must admit i'm not a guy who knows a lot about how the internet works with routers and switches but what could be causing it to do that? I thought it could be all the random apps installed onto the main pc but I thought that would still slow down the VM (As they are using the same physical plug). The VM can do 20.3 Mbps download and 7.41 Mbps upload BUT the main pc running the same VM only does 15.5 Mbps download and 3.29 Mbps Upload. The VM is using NAT connection (Sharing the host IP address) if that makes any difference at all. Image below proves it as well.

First things first, this is the first time I post anything at this forum, please excuse me if I'm not posting it in the right place or I'm doing something wrong. I work as a PLC programmer for industrial machinery and that kind of stuff. I have been trying to configure a new desktop PC for work which would be good handling a ton of stuff at the same time (virtual machines and, mostly, a Siemens program called TIA Portal that takes a lot of CPU and RAM). Just by reading the specs, Ryzen 5 1600 could be just what I'm looking for, but all reviews I can find in YouTube about Ryzen CPUs are only about gaming, video rendering and so on. I'm not sure if Ryzen is optimized for virtualization and the things I need, so I was wondering if anyone here would enlighten me about it. Thank you in advance. PS: I know my English is a bit crappy, please don't make fun of me hahaha.

Good Morning and Happy Monday! I have had this problem before and found out it was an incorrect setting on the virtual machine. I had been setting it to NAT instead of Bridged. Recently, our entire network had a complete stroke and had to reset everything. Since then, the virtual machine (running Windows XP) is showing that a network cable is unplugged. 1. I checked the physical connection to make sure it hadn't come loose. 2. Re-Checked Virtual Machine settings to make sure the connection is bridged. 3.Tried using both WiFi and Ethernet. Anything else I should try?

Good day everybody.So I'm planning on buying a PC soon, and I'll be moving from a Macbook. So I thought, why not get macOS on the PC through a virtual machine, since I'm very fond of the OS?Anyway, that's what I'm planning on doing, but I have a question that also is related to hardware. I'm going to hopefully be running a dual-monitor setup, so my question is;If I were to fullscreen the macOS virtual machine on a single monitor while running Windows on the other monitor, and the macOS virtual machine is idle or not doing much, like watching a video, while the Windows side is playing a game or such, will there be any effect on game performance?When installing macOS as a virtual machine, it will often ask for how much memory I want to allocate to the virtual machine, along with the cores of the CPU and the VRAM. But, once again, what if the virtual machine is idle, will the Windows side use all cores, VRAM and memory? Or will it only use what is left for it, say only 8GB out of 16GB of RAM (since the other 8GB is allocated for macOS)?I hope I was clear enough.Thanks and cheers!

According to an article by The Verge, Microsoft is adding Ubuntu, SUSE Linux, and Fedora to the Windows store. The apps will run as virtual machines and allegedly have all the features of a full installation of the OS.

I was thinking about using a VM with Oracle Virtual Box to run my web browser in for the next little while while this Wanna Cry virus is going around. But since the vulnerability that it takes advantage of is network based, does this mean that it will still infect my PC, as the VM has to run through the NIC of my PC?

Ok, so first off don't panic, I haven't actually got 3 working servers just yet, the other 2 are spare parts which I could turn into working machines for a fairly small investment. (why are VRMs more expensive than processors?!) Oh, and disclaimer, while I'm a bit brainy an a swift learner, I don't know a whole lot about networking and Linux has so far confused me with its sudo nonsense! So, speak clearly in concepts I can research rather than technical jargon if you want me to not cry. As the title says, I want to be able to turn 3 servers into 1 machine. If that isn't going to happen then stop reading here and call me an idiot for buying 100kg of stuff for no reason! Primary plan is utilise the 16 drive bays in 1 server for NAS, and allocate cores to VMs I can access through otherwise utterly useless tablet devices that can just about run a browser and cost somewhere approaching zero. These get dished out amongst different rooms to provide more chunky processing capabilities without having to have an actual computer in each room, or having to buy expensive tablets. Ye know, like starship Enterprise has one central computer doing all the shazam. Looking forward to Threadripper/Epyc getting cheap as anything in a few years' time! If the servers can be chained, obviously I'd end up with then 48 bays for drives which I'm sure RAIDz would be able to find a use for when it's bored. Secondary plan is to get the other 2 systems up and running and meld them all into one badass machine which can be used as and when I feel like it to do much more demanding tasks. Say video editing or encoding or other such nonsense. Yes, I'll probably have to slap some graphics capability in them but 680s seem to end up in the trash these days anyway. Tertiary plan is to spend left over crunching power doing something bit-coin shaped (if it's even worth doing any more) or even perhaps as a remote powerhouse that I can flog processing time on/donate to nuclear physics laboratories. Or, slightly more sensibly, give me the ability to continue composing/producing music over the internet because I'm not spending £3k on a laptop which is actually up to task. If I can't access my network (and thus VMs) from the internet then what the bloody hell is the point in the internet anyway?! Machines are (drum roll) ProLiant ML370 G5s. 1. 2x X5355s with 44GB(DDR2) and many many HDDs 2. 1x X5459 with 16GB(DDR2) and zero HDDs 3. A mother board. And a case that weighs about 40kg. 4. £200 Now, assuming what I want to do is at all feasible.... Questions! 1. Will I need to use the same processor in each machine? One assumes that paired processors are required in a 2 slot board (yes noob, I know, it's savage guess work!) and so would that mean I would thus need all the processors to be the same? 2. Will unraid or FreeNAS fit the bill? I'm quietly confident that some form of Ubuntu will manage the task but that would mean I need to know things and stuff, and that's not currently the case. 3. Can you convince Linus et al to do a video on it? Seriously, if you search youtube for 'daisy chain server' it's pretty much a googlewhack picking up nothing but noise and some woman getting series and parallel electrical circuits a bit wrong. He'd get a million hits anyway, the stuff costs sod all and it'll help usher in the future of houses which actually come with a computer installed in them. I bet even Bill Gates'd watch it! 4. Using unraid/FreeNAS, can the VMs actually access the NAS?! I know it seems like a stupid question, but honestly when I think about it the VMs would need to talk to the NAS as a network location, right? Would that make things get all confused? 6 (sod 5 that's boring). If there are many ways to daisy chain and it's not a myth, what's the best way? I can imagine a PCIe card that just connects the systems together on a primal level, but if it can only be achieved by Ethernet cable is 1Gbit/s actually swift enough? G. Is there a resource (video channel or some such) which speaks Linux/Ununtu but also translates into people? Level 1 Tech is great and they do seem to be the most likely, but can't find anything which'd give me an idea of what is and isn't possible. 8. If Ethernet is the way forth... Is It better to hook the machines to a network switch using 2x Gbit/s inputs, rather than one into another into another and then 2 feeds to a main router from first and last machine? 9. Can I add extra machines willy nilly? 'cause if I'm picking up more servers for dirt cheap and decide 24 cores is getting dull and boring and I've discovered some way to actually make money out of it, then I might want to waste even more time making a properly mental super computer which could one day take over the world! Yeah ok, it's unlikely, but a megalomaniac can dream! 10. The servers have iLO. Integrated Lights Out. What's that then? It seems to be a remote console thingy jobby but it doesn't work in Win10 and I have no idea what I'm doing with WinServer '08! Anyway, thank you very much for reading this internal monologue of mine and I do hope that at the very least my enthusiasm has brightened your day! Jon ps if it posts multiple times it's because my service provider I having trouble finding their own stable connects, let alone mine!

Hey there, I am having an unusual issue. Any time I start a virtual machine I get a blue screen windows crash. System_service_Exception is the error it reports. The crash happens the moment I select the disk image to boot from. Tried ubuntu, debian, and winows - they all yield the same result. System specs: Windows 10 enterprise. mobo: h270i gaming pro a/c gskill: 2400 ddr4 2x8gb cpu: g2650 g.card: rx580 C: bpx m.2 ssd D: 2x seagate 3tb in hardware raid1 Will gladly report other specs or more detailed if relevant. I tried using hyperV first to create a VM on the raid array since it has tons of space. blue screen when launched. At first I thought it was just a hyperV thing (I've never used it before) so I downloaded oracle virtual box. I had the same results with VirtualBox so I thought maybe there is some compatibility with running a VM on a raid array. Tried again: built the VM on the C drive. Same crash. Tried uninstalling entirely and putting all info on the C drive. Same crash. Checked bios to confirm cpu has virtualization enabled. It is. Built the system yesterday so it's essentially a fresh install. Any sort of insight would be awesome. Thank you.

My is recognizing and using my wifi card as Ethernet. I was putting my card into monitor mode and somehow it sees it as eth0 instead on Wlan0. I don't know when this happened and I checked all the setting in Virtual box to see what the problem is but I couldn't find a solution. I want to have the Vm recognize the card no ethernet Thanks - Kestrel

Hi guys sorry to bother you on such short notice but for my final networking project I am tasked with creating a vsftpd server on a linux machine (using virtualbox). The only problem is when i have to connect from a different machine (windows, linux, or mac) to the vsftpd server on my linux virtual machine. I am using the Kubuntu operating system on my linux virtual machine and if i try to connect the ftp ip address using my kubuntu linux virtual machine it will work without any issues. The only problem is with connecting using my windows machine or another machine like my laptop. I am lost here I tried asking my teacher for help he didn't provide any guidance I tried asking one student in the class for help but I don't think he will help also please help thank you 201610-CSF 2903-Capstone Assignment-Task Sheet.pdf

Hello everyone! Last Saturday I went on the hunt for some nice things to a few second hand shops in the city where I live. I've found some really old games that i used to play when I was a kid. Since they were all 0,50€ each I got 20 of them... I don't regret it tho I got few really nice titles like GTA2 or Carmageddon OoO. Now the problem is that I made a VM(Virtual box) and installed Win XP on it, but the games won't run Prince of Persia 3D just shows starting screen and then crashes to the desktop... Carmageddon starts nicely, but then it is loading the game endlessly... CoD 2 is thinking that I have an illegal copy of the game since I have to share the optical drive from the host machine to guest Win XP installation... TL;DR Some old games won't work on my VM and I don't know why. Does anyone know how to fix it? I enabled graphic card sharing(GTX 750ti). VM has 2GB of RAM and 2 cores from my Athlon X4 860k. My host system is Win 10.

Hey all, the context for my question is that I´m currently trying to develop a game in the Unreal Engine 4 and I aim for windows as my main platform but I also bare in mind that a linux port should be possible without to great time needed cause UE4 can also natively compile for that platform. My own PC is currently running Windows 10 and I have no chance to change that in the future cause a lot of important programms are windows only but I need a machine to try if and how good a linux version would run so I thought maybe there is a virtual machine that is capable enough to run games (linux in VM on win machine). I only have some very basic experience with virtual box but that gave me not the results I wanted. I read some articles in the internet and everyone was talking about the peripharels passthrough as being the greates threat to good performance in a VM when gaming. Do someone has experience with gaming in a VM? Greetings Pascal PC specs: i7-3930k at stock speed Rampage 4 extreme 32gb ddr3 ram MSI GTX 1060 6gb 2x 250gb SSD crucial mx

Hi, I'm considering setting up a linux distro as my main OS but I like muh games and I like muh CAD software so its not feasible to be my only OS. I'm considering either a VM with windows or linux or a sort of "2 systems one CPU" setup with a cheap single slot card and 2c/4t of my 1700 for linux on my spare 16x slot. The second option would be running on my secondary screen and I would use synergy to connect the two. What do you think?

Hi, Im setting up a server to run data hosting and i want to get a vm to auto connect in full-screen mode when i start the server up. Any ideas as to how I can do this? Only thing that comes to mind is somehow making a shortcut to opening the vm in fullscreen and copying it in the startup folder.

Hi, I am trying to install android x86 on Oracle Virtual Box. It runs but whenever I restart the virtual machine I have to install it again. Can someone please tell me how to prevent this.