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Hi. I some industrial machines that have there one PC with all the software that the machines needs to work. Some PC's have win xp others have win 98. So i cant upgrade to a newer version of windows because the software are not compatible with newer versions of windows and even if wase compatible the configuration processes are complicated. I allready have done one machine and its working fine but on the 2nd machine i have encouter a issue. Im using a Solftware called Disk2VHD and on the 1st machine i made the VHD file on the physical and worked fine now doing the same on the 2nd machine it dosent start "cloning" and gives me a error of "ERROR: INCORRECT FUNCION". So i took the HDD from the physical machine and using a HDD Dock i connected to my win 11 machine., and the "cloning" start but at the end it get stock and dosent give me any error just stops. I allready try to use StarWind V2V Converter but no success. on 26% it gives me a error "error read file" Any one have a solucion ou a alternative?

Put simply the biggest annoyance for me with pc gaming is steam updates. They don't happen automatically and since my pc is turned off except when I use it I have to wait for updates often. So If I had a linux VM with steam installed is it possible to make steam update games instantly? Then since steam transfers over LAN would it just pass It to my gaming pc? I have Gbit so the main slowdown is decompressing does steam transfer decompressed versions of the updates? Steam cache would be pointless since my internet speed is easily fast enough to saturate my ssd with decompression. My main goal is to get around decompression. this might sound like a none issue but if the only down side for me is some extra storage space used I don't see it as a waste. Any help appreciated!

We purchased a new Dell PowerEdge R250 server for one of our business customers. In that new server is a 1TB SSD with no OS installed. They currently own a 10+ year old Dell PowerEdge T320 with Windows Server 2019 Essentials installed and activated. We have created a Virtual Hard Disk using Disk2vhd and ultimately want to spin up that VM on the hard drive in the new server. What kind of host OS needs to be installed to run the VHD made from the previous server's hard drive? Can it be activated with the same license key as the guest OS (the one activated in the VHD that was created from the previous server's hard drive)? If not, and we only get to migrate the activation key from the previous server's hard drive to be used in the guest OS on the new hard drive, does that mean we have to pay for another activation key for the host OS on the new hard drive?

Hi, first time poster, long time viewer coming for advice. Backstory: I have decided to make myself a fully virtual Windows Server 2022 lab with HA, Clustering, Backups, File Server, and all that, maybe even use it as a NAS of sorts (yea, I know, Linux is probably better suited for servers but I'm one of those people that get to work in full Windows environments at work and having a lab with a similar setup to learn some more or test things out would be great). Issues: My constraint is physical space - I can't dedicate any more space for another PC, but I already have an HTPC in the house. The problem list / requirements: I want to run a bare metal hypervisor (preferrably Hyper-V, but I could tolerate VMware if what I'm looking for is not possible on Hyper-V) On that hypervisor I want to run one VM for the WinSrv lab and one VM for the HTPC Win10/11 I want the HTPC system to be easily accessible through the connected keyboard, mouse, and display in such a way, that if my girlfriend were to go watch Netflix in the living room, she wouldn't even notice that she's doing that on a VM. I want the whole setup to be as minimal in maintenance as possible. I've got enough administrative overhead in my life, and I really don't need the whole HTPC/LAB thing to become a "pool water-cooling project" or "living room audio project" of my house if possible The question: How do I even do that? I was wondering if it was possible to give the HTPC VM a dedicated physical HDMI port and USB ports so the physical computer will just output to the TV by default. Is that possible? Do any of you have experience with running that kind of setup? Is a dedicated GPU required then, or can I get by using an iGPU on a Ryzen 5700G? Is there something obvious I'm not taking into account here, or maybe a better, faster and easier solution? All help would be greatly appreciated

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Howdy! I'm looking to build a home server using proxmox. The cpu will be an i5 12600k and with that I was curious if there would be an issue with selecting efficiency or performance cores. Since the i5 has 6Pcores and 4E cores. Will proxmox be able to discern? Or will it prioritize the Pcores when I'm assigning VMs certain cores? Is it possible to dedicate the Ecores to running proxmox and the P cores to running my VMs?

I am trying to run multiple VMs on proxmox with GPU passthrough. But my two accounts got banned by Activision for warzone2 and modern warfare registered through steam, in which one of them was just created and wasn't even played. Can somebody help me regarding this issue. such that i can run multiple vms without getting banned. Thanks!!!!

Hello guys, Ok so here me out, this will be a wild ride (it has been for me atleast). With about 4 days scraping every corner of the internet, I am getting to the border of what I could do by myself. I am trying to emulate a MacOS X Tiger or atleast with Rosetta working on it so I can make a very old software (early 2000s) work for my job. They got a bit lazy and now they don't have backups for this kind of tasks. The aim is to be able to have a VM that could be installed on separate computers to make the software work on computers. We also aim to get out of the Mac echosystem since we are using only windows and Linux, and this dinosaur is the last remanant piece of Apple's hardware in the office. The soft works actually with a Mac on Tiger 10.4, so this is the thing I want to emulate. SO, what have I done during these few days I already invested on this side-project? - I tried to get .iso files of MacOS and now I have basically too much of them - I managed to make High Sierra, Snow Leopard and was close to get Tiger to launch on VirtualBox 7.0.8 - tried to get my hands on QEMU on windows and in a Linux VM but I am not very proficient with the commands or the software at all - looked into emulating a PowerPC but I didn't get far as all repositories seem to be too old, or on QEMU, and I don't master this soft at all. Even if I wish I did. - Discovered that Unicorn Engine exists, but the soft I want to use is the kind of "done by a scientist 25 yrs ago just to do a thing on that computer" grade of soft. You could tell me : "Hey Geo, you have Snow Leopard running, enjoy your rosetta and have a good day!" I hoped it could be done like that, but.... Even if during the install of the Snow Leopard OS, I asked for Rosetta to be installed, it seems I don't have it anywhere in the VM, even after updating the OS in the VM (See picture below). Screen capture of the VM running Snow Leopard, with Rosetta installed but not showing any sign of life. Normally, I should see a "open with Rosetta" option, which is obviously not here. I also tried to make other older VMs, but I can't manage to get my .iso to boot on any VMs. Tiger is close to boot (I guess) but sends me these errors. Screen capture of the error on the Tiger VM , even with VM settings from an internet repository. Well so this resumes it all. The objective of this project is to get MacDiff (old software from the PowerPC era) to work, idealy on a VM that I can copy-past on multiple computers. Should be somewhat simple, but I am having quite the troublee to get it to work. Feel free to provide any advice or idea, I am not a programmer or anything, just a persone that likes working with computers in his room, so I have some limits but I think this project is cool Let's go software archeologists!

I am wanting to create a proxmox server that would be running a freenas VM and a Windows VM with a couple other containers so that the computer could act as a storage server and run another Dedicated windows machine. Whenever the Windows VM would be started I would like it to have peripherals connected to it and it be able to output to a physical display connected to the gpu passed to the VM. I have followed the proxmox tutorials to successfully be able to set up a windows VM with GPU passthrough. I am now running into issues getting Nvidia drivers installed (the gpu does show up in device manager) and an output to be produced on an external monitor. Any help with this issue or pointers on how to get this setup to work is greatly appreciated.

Hello, I currently have a home server with a Ryzen 9 5900X, that runs Debian, with a Plex server, it has 2 network shares mapped to my NAS, and I also installed the Unifi controller for an AP to extended my Wifi. Problem is : since I installed it, I kinda tried multiples stuff on it as well, like having docker, or virtualization. So the install might not be as clean as it should be I'm about to change hardware on my current PC. Which runs a Ryzen 9 3900X, going back to intel, 13700k. So I was thinking, to redo a clean install of my home server on my old hardware (R9 3900X) and then redo it on the current server (R9 5900X). (to limit downtime) What I need is Plex, Unifi controller and I think a VM system so I can try a few things from time to time without installing them on the main OS. I thought of putting back Debian (or Ubuntu ?) installing plex, because I'd rather have full power and not a virtualised one. And then, using kvm / proxmox or going with docker ? I need a GUI in remote access for the VM, so I can manage them when I'm not on site. Apparently Unifi controller can be used in docker so I guess, one point for docker ? And also docker seems easier to setup with only one physical network card, i'd need the vm to be in the same network to be accessed easly.. Sorry for my english, I'm french, and thanks for the help

Hi! I'm trying to connect to a virtual machine running on a remote PC. I set up wireguard VPN in hopes of it just working, but it does not. Any ideas on how to get this working?

Trying to make a few different, ISOLATED, NAS on the same machine Have a Dell r320 server. 4 drives in the front connected to H310 mini HBA in IT mode, internal 2.5 ssd with OS Plan to add a JBOD / disk shelf with SAS cable to an HBA r320 has 2 pcie slots. 1 for an HBA for JBOD, second for a 4 port nic (or SFP+ 10G in future) ------- Goal: Have 2+ NAS running on the same machine, but isolated from eachother for security Each VM has its own disks and its own ethernet port and be on its own segmented network Each VM is independent and easily migrated (not using docker) Plan: Install XCP-ng hypervisor on the hardware (install on internal ssd) Create 2+ ubuntu VM's that are each on their own network (via different ports on the nic) Hardware passthrough the drives with IT mode and passthrough in XCP-ng so the VMs can only access certain drives (I believe you can do this in XCP-ng center) I have (currently) 5 isolated networks, created using pfsense running on a watchguard XTM5, I use physical separation (NOT vlan tags) and 5 separate gigabit switches Layout: 1 VM using internal H310 HBA and just the 4 10TB drives in the caddys - backup server for VMs running on the rest of my rack. Orchestra can do scheduled delta backups 1 VM for files share server using pcie HBA and connected JBOD - network accessible file share using samba (potential) 1 VM for jellyfin media server, running on JBOD - host VM will live on another hardware but just network attach this storage (optional) 1 VM for ISO library for creating other VMs with - samba share - live on management network Software: I plan on using some sort of software raid/ file system running on ubuntu, but have not figured out what yet leaning toward ZFS or trueNAS core or scale, maybe snapRAID. Each has downsides, still researching Unraid probably off the table since i want to have multiple installs, and unraid spendy and has its own downsides ------- This setup will not be used for running applications or services, just as network attached storage I have plenty of other compute servers that run everything I need ------- Thoughts? Feedback? Better ideas? I am trying to figure out as much as i can ahead of time Thanks! :]

i need advice on modding a ASRock DESKMEET X300 Mini PC Barebone for use as a nas / giga-switch / vm build my plan is to add a AMD Ryzen 5 5600G 64gb of ram SK Hynix Gold P31 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive for main os an vm's 2 x Seagate BarraCuda 5TB Hard Drive HDD – 2.5 Inch (ST5000LM000) to mount internal for raid back up of most vatial data of the external 20gb QNAP QXG-2G4T-I225 Quad-Port 2.5 GbE Network Expansion Card 1 x Yottamaster Aluminum Alloy 5 Bay 2.5/3.5 inch USB3.1 Type C External Hard Drive Enclosure SABRENT USB Type-C to Dual 3.5” SATA and RAID Docking Station DS-2BCR with 2 x Seagate IronWolf Pro 10TB (ST10000NE000) upgrade psu to sfx an cables add 120mm aio vi external modding something like this 1. whats the psu form factor an size , as id like to replace with a fully modular gold efficient psu an custom cables by cablemods. 2. does anyone have any tear-down pix of the inside ? 3. does this take full size ddr4 ram 4. has anyone run truenas core or scale 5. does the mobo support a 5600g out-of-the-box with out firmware update 6. can i install a pci multi port Ethernet card an run truenas with router os in a vm an config some of the ports as vlan's an leave the others as just normal lan ports, is this something i can do vi router os an from a vm in truenas https://www.newegg.com/asrock-deskmeet-x300w-b-bb-box-us/p/N82E16856158083

I have had a Plex server running on a QNAP device, and although the NAS itself is fine, I don't think that the Plex server on it is the best way to go. I have been told that running a Plex server on a VM is one idea, and although the networking side of that I understand how to do, I am not sure if that is the best way to go. What about GPU Hardware acceleration? Is that something you can port through on a VM? What is the best value solution?

Hello! So I've been running an Opencore Hackintosh on Ryzen for about 2 years and, for the most part, it's been working fine. Recently though, I've run into some issues with internet drop outs and my Adobe applications are sketchy AF, so I'm looking for a more stable solution. I remember watching the "Run macOS on any PC" video from a few years ago and was hoping to get some assistance. Current build specs are as follows: CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 (plan to upgrade to either 3800X or 5700X) GPU: R9 380 4GB (plan to upgrade to 5600XT or 6600XT) MoBo: ASRock Phantom Gaming 4 SSD: WD Black SN750 1TB HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB (Time machine backup) + Seagate Barracuda 2TB (overspill/mass storage (currently empty)) I managed to get my current system up and running first time, so I'm not a total novice, but I'm looking for an easy-to-follow guide of how to get macOS running in a VM on Linux with support for Adobe apps, Ableton, and other productivity tools. I am not planning to use this for gaming at all, and I do not want to use the Linux side for anything. Ideally, booting directly into macOS would be ideal, but not essential. My main goal is to get as much performance on the macOS VM as possible while also running stably and to keep all my data from my current system. A few questions: Do I need a dedicated GPU for each OS? Will hardware acceleration work in macOS? Will I be able to restore my files from my Time Machine backup? Is there a better alternative to what I'm proposing? (I realise it's been a good few years since the LTT video came out, so maybe there's a more stable/easier way???) I'd really appreciate any guidance or suggestions! Thanks in advance

Hey, this is my first post, so I´m already sorry upfront if I´m doing anything horribly wrong. I read all the community standards and hope to be at the right place - if not, feel free to guide me. I´m an absolut noob regarding forums. Build: I´m using my first gaming computer, built in 2014. Sadly my GTX 760 died after installing Windows 10 and I´ve literally tried everything to make it work, but nah. Code 43 - seems dead or at least not worth the 80 bucks that it´s worth on the used market here. Fortunately, I built the system with an i7. So currently it can run on the onboard-graphics. CPU: i7 4790 RAM: 8 GB DDR3 BOOT-DRIVE: 64 GB SanDisk Flash-Thumbdrive with OpenMediaVault installed on it DATA-DRIVE: Currently only one Samsung QVO SSD 1 TB - it was laying around here and as I got frustrated while fixing my GPU, the NAS idea came up yep, a NAS with one drive - laugh about it. i would probably as well - but yea, as i said, i was really frustrated ^^ and my backups are currently on my running systems and on external hard drives. just waiting for black friday to come around for some deals mb POWER SUPPLY: 500W - is it even possible to put a newer GPU into it? GPU: If possible with the power supply that´s in the build, I would get a used one. Any recommendations what I should lookout for? And at what price point are the recommended GPUs considered "a good deal"? I obviously don´t want any harsh bottlenecks or overpay when I can get a similar GPU brand new for a little more. Budget (including currency): not planned Country: Germany Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: [Currently]: - NAS connected via SMB as a simple shared folder [Planned]: - NAS for backing up all my data on workstation, laptop, tablet and phone - Cloudstorage so I´m having access on the data on every device wherever I am (Nextcloud would be neat) - I want to switch from Notion to a self hosted alternative that should run on it - VaultWarden as password manager - Implementing Cloudron to install Guacamole, Nextcloud and other stuff - your ideas are very welcome I know quite a lot of workloads for an i7-4790 - but I´m the only concurrent user. Maybe sometimes my gf in addition - but most of the times my gf connects while i´m sitting next to her. so really there is only one concurrent user. [Ideas and stuff I heard about but don´t really know if it´s possible ^^] - PiKVM and PiHole (everybody talks about them, but I dont know if and how that would be useful for me) - Jellyfin (everybody as well talks about it - but it seems a bit shady. whats going on there?) [Current Problems and considerations] - As I´m storing sensitive data of my company and clients, I need it to be really safe. I already encrypted the whole drive and I´m only allowing users to gain access + the client data folder is not browseable - so you dont know that its even there unless you type in the actual name The SSH and SMB Ports are all changed from default - but is this safe enough? I don´t want anybody of my home network to gain access of this client data, let alone somebody from outside. - Guacamole or ManageEngine EndpointCentral to be able to remotely access my workstation via my iPad from anywhere - Is it safe to run data on nextcloud through a vm? Somewhere when I learned about this whole NAS-topic I read that you should´nt run your nas and store your data on a VM. Makes sense to me. But everywhere I read about for example Nextcloud or Plex, they run it through Proxmox, which is, correct me if I´m wrong, running containers of Nextcloud. So basically it´s on a VM as well, right? I know that these are a lot of questions - Of course I did some research myself, but either they´re not talking about the same problem or they´re talking about the problem, but start to write traditional chinese after the first answer - impossible for a newbie to understand. So I´m hoping somebody in here can shed some light into the darkness ^^ Any suggestions are greatly appreciated! Sorry for my foreign english and if I did something wrong regarding the forum guidelines. Thank you for any help in advance!

Budget (including currency): Not sure, I want to be efficient, and I want to be able to accomplish my goals while also not needing to upgrade next year. Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Here is what I am thinking so far https://pcpartpicker.com/list/MyqssL Goals •Learn containers & VM through networks, proxmox etc. •Actually have a NAS, rather then host Plex on my single gaming rig. Needs •VM of Ubuntu to host the following containers (but certainly not limited too) -Plex -Pi-Hole -Guacamole -Cloud (of some sort, using the TrueNAS storage listed later) -Torrent -VPN(hard maybe) -Home Automation -Generally anything else that I might find fun to mess with.. I am trying to learn, and thats kinda the overall goal of this build. •VM for TrueNAS •VM for windows Work PC. This is for privacy, so my work cannot spy on my day to day. I'd likely end up just guacomoleing this VM, then logging into it anytime I need to work. I don't want to add my windows account to my main rig. •VM for labs/fun/learning. Maybe I'll throw Kali, or Ubuntu on here. Who knows. This will be my for fun/experiment VM. mess around with various coding, containers, whatever. Lets break & rebuild. • Firewall Questions •Do I even need a GPU at all? I don't intend to do a lot (if any) transcoding with plex. My bluray rips are 4k with 80+ bitrate, and 100% of the time are directplay.. maybe a super rare time I might travel and want to watch, but I highly doubt it, it'd be nice to maybe have the option? •If I do need a GPU, and I passthrough the GPU to the VM hosting the container of Plex, then will that effect proxmox? I know that once you pass through a GPU that the main machine can no longer use it. Which is fine since the server will be running headless. BUT if I run AMD, and it has no onboard chipset... And the GPU is in the VM, then will that screw me over on proxmox? not really sure about that part. •anyone have experience with ebay HDD's? Found a surplus store selling 10TB drives at 50% of the price. Its really really really tempting. If I run Raidz1, maybe I'd be ok? •Is 1 TB of NVMe good for proxmox hosting various machines that I have listed. I think it should be.. Was thinking that if I ran out of space I could simply get a 2nd 1TB NVMe drive and that should be fine. I wanted to stick with NVMe for holding the VM's for the speed. I feel like I might be over building this rig, and I know its very easy to over build and spend too much. Really any advice would be appreciated. (the end goal would be to make my current gaming rig, i6600k & 1060ti my HTPC, that will essentially be a client slave for plex/kodi/Stream remote play. Use the server to host all of my media files & VM's. Then build a new gaming rig in the next year that plays all my games, then remotes them over to the client..)

I followed every step from the github page but for some reason i cant install geforce drivers on my vm.

So I recently bought a bluray player (LG BH16NS40 manufactured before 2015) and I wanted to use it inside my Windows 10 VM to rip blurays. However the drive wont recognize and dvds, even non blurays inside the vm and makemkv wont recognize the drive. I plugged it in my physical pc and the drive works and makemkv recognized the drive. So now I am wondering if anybody here knows a drive that will work with makemkv inside a vm. I know this might not be quite the right subreddit, but I am desperate because I am working on this issue for 3 days now. So any help will be really appreciated!

Hello all, I have a 2019 16" MacBook Pro. I currently have Bootcamp installed for gaming purposes while on the go, however when it comes to productivity, macOS is my preferred operating system. Unfortunately, my job requires a program called BlueBeam which no longer has a macOS version, this forces me to use a VM when I need to look at the program. I tried the ever popular VirtualBox, however Windows 10 clients don't appear to have video drivers on macOS hosts leaving the Windows VM unusable. Needing a field computer quickly, I was forced to try out Parallels on a free trial and do an inspection with it, it went surprisingly well. The VM has a Travel Mode which saves on power consumption, something very important when a 16" MacBook Pro is using its Radeon graphics. Parallels also seems to have a great video driver for office work with perfect retina scaling. My only problem with Parallels is that its a costly subscription at $80/y. So my question is, are there any alternatives to VirtualBox and Parallels that are affordable/free with good video drives for office work. Thank you.

Hey I am looking to build a smallish array to house some virtual machines as a small homelab. I have a computer with a 12 core cpu and 128gb ram, but I am not quite sure what would be the best way to build a raid arry. I have an boot nvme ssd and two 1tb sata ssds for some fast storage, but I am going to need more space in order to really utilize all of that cpu and ram. What drives would you guys recommend for this kind of an build? SAS or Sata is fine. Yes I know that HDD's are not blazing fast compared SSD's but it does not matter to me.

I have 2070S and it works. How far up/down the stack can I go and still have the GPU work fine? Is there any rule of thumb or should I be looking (where) for that info for individual card? I want to run a dedicated GPU in VM for Steam's remote-play.

I've never personally built a PC or server so this might not make a lot of sense. Hoping someone can help me flesh out this idea somewhat. I want to have a server that does these things: NAS Hosts a couple website Hosts an Email Server Renders 3D Modeling ( mostly Inventor ). I mainly use a laptop and carry it with me so my plan was to connect the server through Ethernet to my router then remote into it in order to use intensive software. I was looking into specific hardware and am not sure what to get either. I have a pretty decent budget so I was thinking about getting a thread ripper because why not and a 3050. That might be overkill though and I don't really want to draw unnecessary power because I plan on leaving it on almost constantly. This probably looks like a ramble. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'll respond with more info to anyone that says anything. Thanks!

I am currently running my plex server and NAS off of a very old Dell Optiplex I bought off ebay and slabbed a 10tb external drive too. I have very quickly filled up the space on the system. I am wanting to build a new system as I have a lot of plans. I would like to be able to run my plex (needs to be able to transcode), NAS (ideally both linux and windows could access the same files in the same space), host a heavily modded minecraft server for 10 people, and run some basic linux vms that would be used for testing labs in my pursuit of learning how to use things/ networking simulation tools. And I am not sure what most self hosted game servers require but I would also like to be able to host non mc games like satisfactory, etc. I assume anything that could get this done would also be fine for hosting my own password manager and simple things like that as well. I am looking for both hardware and software recommendations. If all that could be attained for under 1500 USD that would be great. I was planning on starting out with at least 32 TB of storage. And if transcoding for plex and running game servers does not use much gpu I have an old R9 290 laying around that I could throw in there. I was originally thinking of using FreeNAS but some people have been pointing me towards ProxMox and just setting up VMs for everything. A cherry on the top is if there is a self hosted version of something like google drive where i can access files from my phone or any pc from elsewhere. Any help would be much appreciated and I am very open to new ideas, questions, criticisms, or unconsidered recommendations. Thanks

Hey all! This is an odd question but I've found myself in a bit of a pickle. I want to run a Windows 10 or 11 VM on my my PC (which is Windows 10 Home). The issue here is Hyper-V is not enabled on Win10 Home. I've found it is possible to enable Hyper-V on Win10 Home edition but it ends up screwing up a few other application (BlueStacks etc). So my thinking is if there is a third party application when I can simply run the VM within Win10 Home, this would be fantastic but I'm a completely newbie when it comes to VM's so I was wondering, can anyone vouch for a decent "idiot-proof" VM software that isnt Hyper-V please? This is for personal use if that's something you'd need to know. Appreciate the help!!!!