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Introduction Hey everyone! So I am fairly new to self hosting stuff at home, I am talking about 2-3 years here. I have bought my first Raspberry Pi about 3 years from now and my small home server 1.5 years ago. I first ran TrueNAS Scale as the OS, but switched to Proxmox VE, because I had issues with accessing other pods hosted on the same issue. Talked about this issue with one of my teachers back then and he advised me to install Proxmox instead of trying to fiddle around with IP tables and stuff. Since then I am a huge fan of PVE! Alright, so I then also started hosting other VMs on there, because I needed the unused computing power that I used for the pods on TrueNas Scale again. I started migrating some of my services onto an Ubtuntu-Server Docker instance. It's been like that since that point. Recently I started experiencing OpenShift at work and CI/CD pipelines with Tekton and wanted to also do something like that privately to strengthen my knowledge about k8s. I started researching and found the underlying project of OpenShift; OKD. Long story short; I checked the minimum requirements for OKD and realized that I am short of a few GB of RAM... My Goal I would like you to quickly take a look at the table 1 and 2 on the following official documentation: https://docs.okd.io/4.14/installing/installing_bare_metal/installing-bare-metal.html#installation-machine-requirements_installing-bare-metal For my cluster, I would need 3 control plane nodes and at least 2 workers. That would be a total of 14 CPU-Cores and 64 GB of RAM. I also have other VMs running on my system, that I have listed below this section. So there needs to be slightly better hardware, just to be safe. Current Specs Case: Fractal Define 7 XL Black CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 G, AM4, 3.9 GHz, 6-Core RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX, 4x 16GB, 3200 MHz, DDR4-RAM, DIMM Motherboard: ASUS ROG STRIX B550-A Gaming, AM4, AMD B550, ATX PSU: be quiet! Pure Power 11 CM, 600W Storage: - 2x Intenso top performance 512 GB, M.2 2280 - 2x Samsung 870 QVO, 1000 GB, 2.5'' - 6x Seagate IronWolf 8TB, 3.5'', CMR Other: - 2x Delock Host Bus Adapter 2 Port SATA PCIe - 3x Delock Molex to SATA power cable Virtual Machines NAS CPU: 1 Core [host] RAM: 8GiB [balloon=0] Storage: - 6x HDD pass-through - local-zfs (onto m.2) 32G virt. disk Docker Services (Ubtuntu Server) CPU: 3 Cores [x86-64-v2-AES] RAM: 14GiB Storage: local-zfs (onto m.2) 128G virt. disk Adguard (Ubtuntu Server) CPU: 1 Core [x86-64-v2-AES] RAM: 2GiB Storage: local-zfs (onto m.2) 32G virt. disk (The SSDs are currently unused, because I wanted to put the cluster onto those. Distributing the control planes and worker nodes onto them, having no ZFS pool for possibly a better performance?) Issues 1. My system was experiencing a high I/O rate, peaking at around 15-20% when doing high intensive writes. I had some MC servers hosted on there at some point, with large worlds and when they saved, all VMs were lagging to their death (almost). This was the case when I had the SSD1 and SSD2 as a RAID1 and I read that this can cause huge lag (possibly from ChatGPT, I cannot remember). Well so yesterday I migrated away from RAID1, also because I need more storage for my OKD cluster. 2. Another issue is that I had to buy those PCIe SATA adapters, because I didn't know that 2 of my 6 SATA motherboard connectors are going to get disabled, when using 2x m.2 slots. (I decided later that I am going to buy SSDs for my system). 3. Yesterday, a friend of mine pointed out, that my CPU only has 2 lanes and that this is probably going to be a bottleneck for my RAM. He advised me to do some more research about this topic though and as you can see I also don't know that much about hardware. 4. About the RAM issue, I would actually buy 2x 32 GB sticks here, and replace 2 of my 4 16GB sticks with them. 5. If I understood Proxmox VE correctly, it emulates certain CPU types, so the operating system would think that it has 4 cores, if I for example give it 1 socket with 4 x86-64-v2-AES cores. Also I still don't quite understand that part yet, with what CPU type to choose. Maybe I can get some advice here as well. 6. I actually want to give my NAS VM way more RAM, for faster caching, but it's not necessary really. Conclusion I would be very happy if I could get some advise about my current situation and maybe if you could address some other concerns that I maybe haven't stumbled into yet. I am willing to spend around 500$ for my upgrades (or more maybe, but I'll have to save up some more money then). I've also thought of maybe moving the NAS onto another Proxmox system (including the VM with the Docker services), but this will be more expensive. But this makes the system available for the cluster (with a small RAM upgrade).

I'm eyeing a used PC set for $130 (converted) with the specs listed below, and I intend on using it as my video editing NAS. i5-8400 8gb DDR4 (unknown if it's dual-channel and unknown speed) 128GB SSD (probably DRAM-less SATA) 500gb HDD 2x Rear ethernet ports (presumably both 1 gigabit) I plan on... Adding a PCIe x4 -> (2) M.2 adapter + (2) M.2 to (5) SATA adapter. Adding a 2.5gb ethernet port to PCIe x4 adapter. The prebuilt only has 1 hard drive bay and probably only 4 SATA ports on the motherboard, at least one of which is already occupied, so I thought to add more slots. I wonder if this setup will cause instability or bottlenecking. I also plan on running the NAS in a VM inside a Linux Mint install. I heard there are some amount of performance penalty when running a NAS on a VM, even with hardware virtualization enabled. Any thoughts?

My name is Jeremy (Yiru for most people online). I would like to get advise on the following. I want to run the following on it. SQL (with Redis as cache). Minecraft servers (I am making a little network around max 100 people so far). Virtual machines. webserver using nginx/apache2. maybe some other things in the future. 2 idea's I had so far. 1 or 2 servers. (6 cores/server minimum for 2 | 8 minimum if 1 server) using multiple blade servers in an enclosure. What I want advise on. I want advise on what the best option would be. If there are better options I also would like to know. Budget. I could spent a max of 2000 euro on it. I would like it to be not 2000 if possible. (I will keep an open mind on budget if needed) Where to buy. I live in the Netherlands. But cant seem to find good places to buy from. I would love to know if people have good links to those if possible. Software is not an issue. I already have that covered. If any questions just ask. I would love to answer them. Thanks in advance. -Jeremy (Yiru)

Budget (including currency): $500-700 Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Main Priority is a simple NAS + Homelab & Automation Management, Secondary Priority is a 1080p gaming PC (with VR in mind) or via Steam Link from other main gaming PC. 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): Intended Parts List (so far): - AMD Ryzen 7 5800X (owned) - bequiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 (owned) - MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 MoBo (to buy unless suggested otherwise) - RX 580 8GB (owned, open to upgrade) - ADATA XPG Gammix D20 64GB (4x8GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 (owned) - Crucial P5 Plus 1TB M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4 (to buy unless suggested otherwise) - Fractal Design Define R5 ATX Mid Tower Case (to buy due to 8-10 3.5" HDD bays) - 2x WD Red Plus 14TB (intending to buy more) - EVGA SuperNOVA 750 GT 80+ Gold (owned) No OS selected. Have used Windows 10 extensively and very basic Ubuntu 16.04, 20.04, 22.04. Open to suggestions Hi all! I'd like to repurpose my old 5800X and RAM into a hardwired, simple NAS for backup and remote access, similar to what I'm currently doing with OneDrive. I looked into dedicated NAS' but think this will suit my needs more and for a similar price. I'd use this computer as the central storage for my Plex Media Files, so my 11th Gen Intel NUC (Beelink SEI11) can pull them over the network for ez transcoding and distribution to myself and my few dozen users. Currently have those 2 WD drives connected in a 2-bay USB 3.0 drive to great success. Additionally, I'd like to have some of that storage dedicated for myself and my family's personal files. Likely only needing 10TB for that, for now. I'd like to get more drives, potentially filling out all 10 bays with 14-20TB drives over time. I have a basic understanding of RAID, but my main goal would be to ensure all personal files and media files are backed up. Unless compelling, I don't see a need to speed up past regular HDD speeds. Among that, I'd like to experiment with Homelab stuff, but am only experienced in using Google's and TP Link's IoT ecosystem. I can look up guides for that separately. Lastly and lowest priority, I'd like to have this computer hooked up via HDMI to my living room TV for occasional games, VR to my Quest 2 via wireless (my tried and true router is in room and ready) and/or Steam Link from my personal gaming rig (hardwired to gigabit network, 7800x3D w/ 3080 10GB). I'm curious if I should explore virtualization for this, or if I could pull all this off with W10, Windows Server, a Steam friendly Linux kernel, or whatever you may think. I watched LTT's Gaming Rig & NAS video and it inspired me that this could be possible, though I may need another GPU if going the virtualization route. What do you guys think? I'm open to exploring many avenues and alternatives. I appreciate all your help!

I'll keep it short: I am a software dev, I want to test cross-platform applications but I do not have an apple MacBook or similar. I do have a fairly adequate PC with a 256GB Sata based C drive for my main OS (W10), I also recently went out and got a 1TB NVMe (WD BLACK) for storing all my projects. I also have a 1TB 7200RPM HDD for storing data. My question is; Will setting up the vmware on the NVMe in this configuration allow me to run MacOS as smoothly as it is running off of any other MacBook? If not, what can I improve or change?

Apologies for spelling or grammar, I'm on my phone. So earlier today I fired up one of my VMs in VirtualBox. I tried to forward a USB device, which I've done before without issue, and Windows couldn't recognize it. I had the thought that maybe it's because I had upgraded from Debian 11 to 12 as the host and maybe I needed to check for updates and maybe update the extension pack that facilitates things like USB forwarding. The extension pack in the past has always been a separate download on their site, so I headed over to VirtualBox(.)org , and it seems kind of barren. The big old download button takes you to a page with links to the source code and that's about it. The download page used to be filled with links to the extension pack, binary installers for various platforms, repo instructions for various Linux distributions, etc., and literally none of that was there. The only thing that remotely looked like a link to actually download it was for "older builds" like 6.1, but when I clicked that it just took me to a page with a couple lines explaining that the extension pack was licensed a certain way with a link to the license, but no links to actually download anything. The only way I can see that you can download it from their website now is to download the source code and build it yourself. The Debian repo I already have set up appears to be working and contains a copy of 7.0, but if I want up update the extension pack, or even set it up on a different system, I'm just out. Adding a Debian repo requires importing and trusting a signing key for that repository, none of which I can find now. I can only really think of two explanations: 1) VirtualBox is a huge net loss for Oracle and they're cutting it loose. 2) Tons of companies were using the free, personal version of it for business purposes, so they're trying to corral those people into buying a support license from them and are just removing all the free downloads from their website. Update I just tried to visit their site on my phone to double check and make sure I'm not just blind before posting this, and the whole site is down now. I don't mind using Qemu on Linux, it works fine. I just kept VirtualBox around because I only occasionally use VMs for a few very specific tasks for my personal use, and it was easier to get set up with, and when reading from a passed thru optical drive it seemed to perform a little better, at least the last time I tried comparing. I had noticed though that, the last time I tried starting a Windows 10 VM in VirtualBox, if you install the guest additions, which includes a virtual display driver, it breaks the aero/transparencies in the Windows UI so that weird things happen, like the background of the start menu being completely transparent. And it has been that way for a while. Maybe they are just abandoning it altogether.

PROXMOX is a powerful hypervisor used for hosting containers and virtual machines. The Operating System is available for free while offering repositories that you can pay for with a subscription. This guide will go over How to install the OS, How to disable the subscription notice and enterprise repositories that aren't free (if you're not interested that is), How to configure your virtual machine pools, How to add a CIFS network server, How to download and install Templates for Containers, and how to install your first Virtual Machine. 1. How to Install PROXMOX 2. How to Disable the Subscription Notice and Enterprise Repositories 3. How to Configure ZFS Storage Pools 4. How to Save a .ISO file on PROXMOX 5. How to Bond a Network Interface Port 6. How to Add a CIFS Network Server 7. How to Download and Install Templates for Containers 8. How to Install Your First Virtual Machine 9. Hardware Pass-Through This concludes the PROXMOX Beginners Guide. If there's anything that needs revising or if you want something added just let me know.

Budget (including currency): what I have plus 2/3/4... even 5k it it would make sense Country: Portugal Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: - 1st main system for livestream production (multiple obs instances, simultaneously recording and streaming different instances; so multiple encodes at the same time); video editing and 3D software like blender, Houdini, Touchportal... - 2nd system will be for streaming to “twitch”. So, 2nd system will only receive an NDI source from 1st main system and encode it. Just that. Just as a safety measure. - 3rd system is for a professional graphical designer, mostly Illustrator, InDesign, and website creation on online platforms. - *4th system??? Is it possível to have one “setup” that would boot the full system, full cpu, every gpu used (all other systems would be unaccessible while this setup is online)? - **5th system??? I think I should use vDGA for assigning each gpu to each system, but is it possible to also use vSGA? So, system 1/2/3 would be using vDGA, but then I would have another GPU that was being shared for system 5 6 and 7 using vSGA, is it possible? Makes sense? Current Setup CPU: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960x 24core Turbo 4,5GHz Motherboard: Extended-ATX MSI Creator TRX 40 Ram: 4x16 DDR4 3200 MHz CL14 G.Skill Ripjaws V GPU: RTX 2060 Super Why: My girlfriend (graphic designer) wants a new computer (she uses one MacBook with 8gb of ram and a not so recent cpu). She asked me if the new MacBook Pro, retailing at 6k wouldn’t me the best solution. After I died and comeback.. I thought “Well, Linus is using a virtualization solution in his house for wife computer and more, and on office for full editing team.... so, virtualization must be a good option” I think I have a good enough cpu and motherboard for this project, I would essentially need more ram and individually assign gpus. Right? Is this a good idea? Got some hints? I was looking into Titan GPU... maybe? thanks in advance

I'll try to be as specific as possible here. My server had CentOS 7 installed to it previously and is now the default OS (it was initially installed via bootable USB). However, I now want to replace it with ProxMox to make other VMs. The server is an IBM/Lenovo x3850 x5 with a IBM 88Y5351 motherboard and four Intel Xeon E7 4830 processors (32 physical cores across all of them). In BIOS, hyperthreading, Intel Virtualization (VT-x), and VT-d are all enabled. To boot ProxMox, I used the most recent ProxMox ISO (ProxMox VE 6.3 iso release 1) etched to a 16 GB USB. I will note that the only thing that seemed a bit off was that the ISO was a mere 800 MB, which I'd imagine is pretty low for an OS. After plugging in the ProxMox USB and going into the boot options, I selected "USB Storage," as seen below (see image "20210212_233733") After selecting this option, I was greeted by what I assume to be a fairly nominal loading screen (see image "20210212_233813") After this, I got the normal "ProxMox" screen with a couple options, of which I selected the top one ("Install ProxMox VE"). See image 20210212_233843. Edit: When I select the "Install ProxMox VE" option it immediately tells me that my monitor is going into screen saver move but my server is still running. What might I have done wrong?

I've got a few programs like SolidWorks and Blender that I need to run. However, I was curious if running them in a VM using a hypervisor (such as KVM or Hyper-V) would result in significantly slower performance compared to just running that program in a bare metal OS. If it helps, I'll be doing some more advanced simulations (large fluid simulations) and renders that require some higher-quality images (such as SolidWorks Composer, which although not supported works just fine in a VM). I will be using graphics acceleration and, since VT-d is enabled for PCIe, a GPU passthrough would be used to the VMs. I know that it will run slower in a VM compared to the bare metal OS, but I'm wondering if the speed difference will be significant (i.e. will it take something ridiculous like twice as long for a 1 hour render).

Alright so I am trying to make a linux virtualbox VM, I do all of the steps that every walkthrough video does, I have tried every kind of virtual disk file, both virtual chipsets, no matter what I change I always land at a completely black screen. As for the editing options, everything I type in doesn't do anything. This is the same with hyper-v on and off. Does anyone know what to do?

When I bought this board I didn't know this board is having old bios Ui. I paired it with Ryzen 5 5600x. My work is based on emulators but I am not getting that much performance because by default Virtualization is disabled and I am not seeing any option in bios to enable it. Please let me know if somebody knows about this otherwise I've to buy a new one.

Hello! New to the thread, fan of the channel. I'm looking to build a system I can fit in a short depth rack mountable server case to full multiple roles. (1) Whole house NAS and Time Machine backup for all the MACs in the house. (2) Plex media server with hardware encoding (3) Minecraft server for my kids. I think I'd like to use Proxmox as the hypervisor for all the VMs but I'm at a loss for choosing the hardware. I'd like a decent upgrade path as well incase I get crazy and want to create some virtual gaming machines as well. Any Solid advice for hardware would be greatly appreciated.

I'm moving from unraid to proxmox, but need advice with the storage. 2 x 4TB HDD 1 x 1TB NVME 1 x 256GB NVME 1 x 128GB SSD I would like to use proxmox for VM (Windows 10 for gaming), docker containers and network storage. For VM & docker I need speed. There is mixed information about ZFS cache. There is also talk about ZFS & LVM cache. I would like to use 128 GB SSD for proxmox. 2 x 4TB HDD as mirror? But what about those two NVME-drives? What is the "best way" to use those so I have everthing backed up, but also run VM & docker from NVME, not from HDD. Thank you for any advice.

Hey! Looking to build a fairly large first virtualization server (Budget of around $2000 aud or about $1500 US) for a multitude of reasons, mostly for development services for myself and some friends (Gitlab, Codeserver and Docker to deploy code, Plex + bittorrent and a Windows 10 VM and a couple more) Was looking at building a 1st gen EPYC server, but couldn't find anything great with a high clock speed + expensive components like ECC memory. So i was looking at a used 1950X Threadripper on ebay that i fit into my budget. Specs are here: (https://au.pcpartpicker.com/user/Wrecked256/saved/ZMbWt6) I haven't run a server before only some Virtualbox VMs for learning so am not familiar with resource requirement for services or a hypervisor to run it all on (was thinking Proxmox?) Any suggestions on what hardware i should consider? Noise is also a big factor as the machine will be sitting right next to me (No proper ethernet networking throughout the house) Thanks for any help!

I'm running windows 10 under qemu/kvm and I'm trying to pass through my graphics card (RTX 2060 mobile), but it always throws code 43 because the VM doesn't have a battery. I've tried the method of creating a fake one through ACPI tables but no luck. Is there any way to pass through my battery or trick windows (spesifically Nvidia drivers) into thinking the VM has a battery?

I have recently purchased a PowerEdge R430 and had a few questions. The configuration I ordered contains one e5-2630v4, but I would like to upgrade it upon arrival. I am looking at getting either another e5-2630v4 with 10 cores (bringing the server to 20 cores spread across 2 CPUs at 2.2GHz (3.1 boost). My question is: Should I just get the $120 2630v4 or should I sell the one that is in there and buy an e5-2698v4 for $400-500 with 20 cores clocked at 2.2GHz (3.6 boost)? My knowledge tells me that the singular 20 core is best, especially since I will eventually be able to upgrade to two of them (and that is what I eventually want regardless of what I do now). I also believe that it is better to have all of the cores on one CPU, since there is less performance lost when the CPUs both have to communicate between each other and the chipset. I am planning to use this server to offer up virtualized computing to customers and so I need the core count to be higher than ten. Also, if I am running something like ESXi or linux with Docker, how many system resources should I allocate to the host OS/hypervisor. I was thinking about reserving two cores and 8gb of ram, or does ESXi do this on its own and not really need dedicated processor cores to manage these instances? Edit: The server also contains 32GB of ram, I believe DDR4@2133MHz. I plan on offering package deals of 4GB of ram per server core, so I would need to upgrade to 80GB (probably going to get 96 because it is an even multiple of that 32 that is already in the system). If I run only 1 CPU, that would give me just 6 RAM slots, meaning I would have to purchase 16GB sticks, and possibly having to sell the RAM that is already in the system, since these cheap ebay listers usually just stuff these servers full of small capacity sticks. I suppose regardless I should buy higher capacity DIMMs if I am planning on eventually upgrading the server to have 40 cores with 192Gb RAM or more.

My friends has a computer that is running very old and crappy hardware, and it struggles to run some of the games he wants to play. I recently learned about virtual machines, and I was wondering if theoretically I could host a virtual machine on my higher end PC, and he could remotely access that and play higher end games? At that point, would a Geforce Now subscription make more sense? I just had this idea and hope someone here can tell me if it makes any sense.

Budget (including currency): n/a Country: BG Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Hopefully AAA Hello Everyone, I am looking into configuring my laptop into working with multiple OSs semi-simultaneously. What I hope to do is to run Windows and Ubuntu on a hipervisor and be able to almost instantly switch from one to the other. My plan is to virtualize both on XEN, and run the hipervisor as the main OS, switching into the OS of need. This setup will help me a bunch in work, plus I am also curious if it/how it can be done. Ideas and considerations I have so far: 1. Hipervisor needs to support release upgrades. - Ubuntu does, and CentOS doesn't. The idea behind this is that I can set up the PC once and not have to bother with it for a long time to come. Just update and reboot hipervisor every now and again. I'm not familiar with all distros and hipervisors out there, so will appreciate a good combo. 2. Hipervisor needs to support resource overselling. - OpenVZ supports it, however, it doesn't support Windows. If this is to actually be practical, being able to utilize the majority of resources of the system from both OSs is essential. - An idea to make the above happen a bit easier would be to put the OS you are leaving into sleep mode, so it can suspend it's status on the SSD and free almost all of the resources for the second OS 3. Both OSs can have their own virtual disks, but user storage is configured as a network drive towards a partition on the hipervisor OS, so either can access it 4. Linux doesn't necesarily need access to the nvidia gpu. As far as I know, the GPU can only be assigned to one OS on a hipervisor. This may turn out to be an issue, if I can't use my external monitors on Linux without the nvidia driver and just off internal graphics. Will need to look into this a bit further, not sure how my motherboard is wired. -------------------------- Benefits of this setup: 1. Hipervisor OS can be ultra secure. You can disable all external-access services like FTP,SSH, etc and just allow updates through the FW. 2. Disaster recovery would be much easier. Windows update wiped out its System32 folder? You can reinstall and be back up in minutes, and still have a working PC in the meantime. 3. System updates can be configured to run completely invisibly from the user. While in Ubuntu, Windows updates and restarts, and vice-versa. Pair that with the fact that I do tend to turn off my laptop once or twice a week, I will be always up to date and secure. 4. Since you are basically running 3 OSs with their OS encapsulated from the other, cleaning malware and viruses will be much easier. If Windows gets a virus, you can clean it with the other OS. Plus, the shared storage will be scanned by all 3 OSs, so you know that will be clean. I'm sure I'm forgetting some details, and will update this thread as the project progresses. Any ideas/advise will be appreciated. Cheers!

What would you guys recommend for a GPU or GPU's in a sever. Planning on running 3-5 SolidWorks applications through virtualization as well as a few other VM's and have the server as a file server. We have good luck in our workstations with Quadro p1000 but that's for our more high end work.

I'm currently planning a new built and plan to either host both Linux and Windows as VMs on an VM Manager OS or host an Windows VM in Linux. The Windows Part will only be used for Gaming (maybe I will also try to use Proton for as many things as possible) and Windows proprietary software. The actual work for Data Science and co will be done in Linux. So the following questions come up: - should I virtualize both systems? or just virtualize windows through linux? - if any of the above solutions, which software would be the best way to go? The built I'm planning will include 8+core CPU, 32GB RAM, dual GPU (will use my old GTX1070 and maybe a new GTX3070).

Budget (including currency): Keep it reasonable Country: Canada Programs or workloads that it will be used for: Multiple Solidworks virtual machines, (Probably less than 4), and various other less intensive VM's. Also a file server. Other details I want to build a professional server to host about 3-5 Solidworks applications at the same time. Also want to host some smaller VM's and also want it to act as a file server, probably around 20tb. The reason I want this is because I'm doing some Solidworks training and don't want to buy a bunch of workstations, (Performance is ideal but not very critical). Planning on replacing the current Synology NAS with this and using the Synology as a backup for the server. What kind of specs would I need for this and is feasible?

Budget (including currency): 15,000 MXN (1 USD ~ 20 MXN) Country: Mexico Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Office work 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): First of all, english is not my native language so sorry if i offend somebody. I am the IT manager in a relative small company (80 employees so far) where a lot of the work is made reading and uploading information to an online service, making spreadsheets on excel and printing papers. So far administration has bought HP 260 G3 Desktop Mini Business PC, useless for anything but office work and very expensive in my opinion. Right now we are looking for a soon expansion and we will need more people and obviously more PCs and here is where my crazy idea was born. What if i use a powerfull enough server to virtualize all the PCs from the office people? Kinda obviously inspirated on the videos of X Gamers 1 CPUs from Linus. So i made a proof of concept with an old Cisco UCS i have lying arround with Proxmox and a windows virtual machine with the Remote Desktop activated, then i used a rasperry pi zero w with Raspian lite to take advantage of the maximum amount of resources possible of the poor little raspberry, and then installed xorg and freerdp2-x11 and after a little bit of tinkering i was able to execute xfreerdp without a window manager et voila windows virtualized and being remote accesed by a Raspberry Pi. So thats the idea people, i want to make as many virtual machines on a server as possible and i want the people in the office to have each one of them a raspberry pi as a terminal, only for the display output and the keyboard and mouse input and all the heavy load will be made by the server. What do you think? Those were stuff i choose because i'm familiar with them, but if you have any better alternative for the hypervisor or the VNC or maybe a better alternative to access the virtual machine for the people (remember they are clerks xD) any suggestion will be welcome. Also, i showed the concept to direction and they loved it because i told them we could save at least an order of magnitude on expenses, so they gave me $15,000 MXN and an area with 8 people to experiment with... As the server i'm planning to keep using the old Cisco, for 8 people i think it will be enough, it has 2x Xeon E5620 total of 8 cores 16 threads and 32G of ram, so every VM could have 2 threads and 4GB or ram (exactly the same specs the HP Desktop Minis have). But eventually i need to ask for a better newer server, what do you recommend? How would you spend the budget? What is your opinion? It is a good or bad idea? Am i reinventing the wheel??

Hi, This will be my first post in this forum. So straight to the point: I have setup my PC to use Hyper-V and have been facing a problem with networking. I have added an external virtual switch in order to access my VMs from other computers within the network. Just last night I have noticed that since setting up Hyper-V with external switch, I've been experiencing random disconnections from the internet. This was especially annoying because I noticed this while playing some Left 4 Dead with friends. To be more specific, these disconnects happen in such a manner: PC will lose connection momentarily for approximately 5-10 seconds Connection is restored for around 30 seconds PC will lose connection momentarily once again for approximately 5-10 seconds Connection will be restored again, until such disconnects happen again Out of curiosity, after that gaming session I ran a ping -t on cmd and left my PC overnight. The following morning showed that I've lost around 30 packets throughout the time the command was run. Searching through the event viewer showed me event ID 22, 24, 21 and 23 recurring overnight. I've attached the screenshot of event viewer for reference. Several solutions that I've tried consist of the following: Disabled Virtual Machine Queue for all VMs in Hyper-V Manager Updated my Realtek ethernet drivers Deleted the external switch and created a new one Restarting the PC (cuz why not) All solutions however, have been to no avail. I'm still experiencing these issues at seemingly random intervals. I've searched everywhere and I have not yet seen anyone that has experienced the exact same problem as me so I'm really getting kinda desperate here and any possible solutions are very much welcome. Here are my PC specs: Ryzen 5 3600 GTX 1660 Super Asrock B450M Steel Legend G-Skill TridentZ Neo 32GB (4X8GB) 3200 MHz Windows 10 Pro Version 21H1, Build 19043.1110 Thanks in advance!

Budget (including currency): 1000 USD Country: USA Programs or workloads that it will be used for: Running latest MacOS install through Qemu. Hoping to use Xcode as well. Other details: I’m unsure if this is actually a better option performance-wise to a 1000 USD M1 MacBook. However, if they are at least somewhat comparable, I would greatly prefer a desktop PC. Potential time commitment required to optimize the VM to get good performance is not an issue. Also, is a decent GPU necessary for this kind of application?