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On 10/1/2019 at 6:14 PM, newtbie said:

seems this is a ghost forum thread, any question on a how-to remains unanswered by the LTT gang, well LTT-minus-the-tips that is....

I don't yet have the necessary hardware to try to do this, if you do I'll give you some unofficial pointers. As for the official ones - we wait for LTT/Antony ...

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Man, I want that rig so bad! I had to fix something on my Hackintosh, and accidentally rebooted into Windows... Something I've not done on my main machine since 2016. I let it update. Later that evening...

Basically, I find it inconvenient to reboot into another OS. I'd really rather not! Parallels has a stupid subscription license, a license format I absolutely refuse to support. Charge me up front, or screw off. I'm looking to do upgrades in the next year, and quite frankly a VM based setup seems like a great idea. I'm also hoping LTT does a full build guide, and possibly alternate methods of multi OS setups, and the pros and cons of each method.

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Oh I see, this whole LTT thing is just some ads on youtube and website to sell some merchandise, ok, nevermind, skip...

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This is the guide they link to in their Hackintosh video from a few months ago (well the new version of it):

 

https://passthroughpo.st/new-and-improved-mac-os-tutorial-part-1-the-basics/

 

Seems to me that they are using that method to create a VM for the Mac while also setting up a windows VM.  The key is having enough cores, memory and video cards to pass through so both machines usable at the same time.  Its the same as most of their other multi-user-single-tower videos from the past with the twist of using some keyboard/mouse sharing software to create a relatively seamless multi-OS workstation

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On 10/16/2019 at 8:56 PM, maldar said:

This is the guide they link to in their Hackintosh video from a few months ago (well the new version of it):

 

https://passthroughpo.st/new-and-improved-mac-os-tutorial-part-1-the-basics/

 

Seems to me that they are using that method to create a VM for the Mac while also setting up a windows VM.  The key is having enough cores, memory and video cards to pass through so both machines usable at the same time.  Its the same as most of their other multi-user-single-tower videos from the past with the twist of using some keyboard/mouse sharing software to create a relatively seamless multi-OS workstation

I'm interested in the way they did this in this particular video. There is no mention of what exactly they used and how it is configured. So, I second the  "LTT w/o the T".

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Saw a product, was reminded of this build, and thought "what if..." you added to this something like a Qnap Mustang-200 and used the mobo CPU for windows, one of the Mustang CPUs for the mac os and the other Mustang CPU for [insert 3rd option here]? Or with it all being VMs could you combine the two Mustang CPUs for a single VM?

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On 9/18/2019 at 10:37 PM, urmamasllama said:

I just want to know what motherboard they're using. I'm using a b350m mortar and a 2700x for my vfio rig but I want to upgrade to a 3900X (or 3950X if I have tons of cash) and full atx eventually because being limited to uATX has brought me to creating this monstrosity spacer.png

Likely a Gigabyte board, one that allows for at least 2 8x PCIe Config.  They brought up in another video that Gigabyte boards seem to be the most compatible with Mac as far as plug and play goes in Hackintosh setups. I could be wrong, though.

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9 hours ago, tenfootgiant said:

Likely a Gigabyte board, one that allows for at least 2 8x PCIe Config.  They brought up in another video that Gigabyte boards seem to be the most compatible with Mac as far as plug and play goes in Hackintosh setups. I could be wrong, though.

And LTT keeping quiet about it.

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Someone just linked me this SUPER useful github when I mentioned this project in the Louis Rossman discord server - its a set of shell scripts you can run to get the mac OS VM running once you have a linux distro with KVM running on the bare metal hardware, from there it would be simple to set up the windows vm from following that link above from maldar:

 

https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM

 

If you get it working with this don't forget to throw the developer of that github a tip/donation (I am not said person). I will be doing that myself once I get things set up if I get around to getting the hardware for this. The goal is to do this with a 3950x after the hype for the cpu dies down.

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Well, my hardware finally arrived, but having trouble passing through with only 2 GPUs. Looks like Unraid needs a GPU (the primary one) and that cannot be passed through.

Does anyone have any information how LTT guys managed to pass through 2 GPUs to 2 VMs without leaving 1 GPU for the host (Unraid or whatever they used) ?

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My bad, after reading a ton of forum threads, I've managed to pass both GPUs @ pcie 16x.

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So what is the key to this? Does one need Red Hat Linux? What special sauce is required except 2 GPUs, and knowing that Linux needs no Cores or Graphics?

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X | Motherboard: ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Formula | GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6900XT | RAM: 2*16GB 3200MHz 14-14-14-34 G.Skill Trident Z Royal Silver | SSD: 2TB Gigabyte Aorus Gen 4; 500GB Samsung 860 EVO | CPU Cooler: Corsair H115i RGB Platinum | PSU: Corsair AX850 | Case: Corsair Crystal 680X | Monitor: Eve Spectrum 4K | Keyboard: Logitech G513 Romer-G Tactile | Mouse: Logitech G502 Lightspeed

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On 9/18/2019 at 9:51 PM, nicklmg said:

 

Buy a Philips 499P9H:
On Newegg: https://lmg.gg/8KVm3

 

Buy a Ryzen 9 3900X (maybe wait for supply to increase):
On Amazon: https://geni.us/PcT2gBH
On Newegg: https://lmg.gg/8KVmP

 

Buy a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti:
On Amazon: https://geni.us/yem9a
On Newegg: https://lmg.gg/8KVmm

 

Buy a Radeon VII:
On Amazon: https://geni.us/yO5UAV
On Newegg: https://lmg.gg/8KV3H

 

I hope you guys do a full tutorial. That would be great! Please...

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On 9/18/2019 at 2:51 PM, nicklmg said:

 

Buy a Philips 499P9H:
On Newegg: https://lmg.gg/8KVm3

 

Buy a Ryzen 9 3900X (maybe wait for supply to increase):
On Amazon: https://geni.us/PcT2gBH
On Newegg: https://lmg.gg/8KVmP

 

Buy a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti:
On Amazon: https://geni.us/yem9a
On Newegg: https://lmg.gg/8KVmm

 

Buy a Radeon VII:
On Amazon: https://geni.us/yO5UAV
On Newegg: https://lmg.gg/8KV3H

 

How did you install Red Hat with an AMD Ryzen processor? I am trying to install it with my 3700X and after I click install Red Hat the screen goes black. Is there something I need to change in bios?

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Does anyone know how I start to learn this stuff? I want this to be my next build but I have no idea where to start and everything I've seen prior isn't anywhere near as nice as this is. Hoping this forum hasn't died yet!

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On 9/19/2019 at 12:52 AM, Jagi said:

Thats funny, i just recently (few days ago) completed my Hackintosh laptop setup with Parallels (the best Windows virtual machine, you can run Windows windows in mac! its even integrated with dock). And its dualboot, Windows virtual machine is on separate partition, i can boot only Windows, boot only macOS or run macOS with Windows

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I know that I am asking this almost a year after the video released but could you tell me which product of parallels did you use on Windows to run Mac on? Thank you

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23 minutes ago, rawn7702 said:

I know that I am asking this almost a year after the video released but could you tell me which product of parallels did you use on Windows to run Mac on? Thank you

Some red hat Linux ( don’t remember exactly)

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bump.. Anthony could you put a step by step guyide to this? I got all the hardware and trying achieve the same.. 

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@GabenJr

Hey @Antony KVM is now working on Windows 10 with WSL2, here it is :D

iOS on iPhone using XCode in MacOS Catalina on Qemu using KVM on Ubuntu Linux on WSL2 with XFCE via VcXsrv plus Android on Pixel & WearOS using AndroidStudio on Windows 10 🤯

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I build custom Linux systems on different hardware architectures for living 😉

 

Laptop: HP Envy x360 convertible 13-ay0xxx / Ryzen 7 4700U / 16G 3200MHZ RAM

Desktop: ASRock B450M Pro4 / Ryzen 7 1700X / Arctic Freezer 33 eSports ONE / Corsair Vengeance LPX Kit 16GB, DDR4-2666MHz / Samsung 970 EVO M.2 SSD - 500GB / Thermaltake TR2 S - 450W / Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-05 Case

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It would be awesome if after the next Ryzen and Radeon card get announced we get a follow-up step-by-step with a Hybrid 2.0.

 

RTX 3080/3090, Ryzen 4000/5000 (whatever it gets called), and RX 6000.

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On 7/24/2020 at 1:25 PM, Shatrix said:

@GabenJr

Hey @Antony KVM is now working on Windows 10 with WSL2, here it is :D

iOS on iPhone using XCode in MacOS Catalina on Qemu using KVM on Ubuntu Linux on WSL2 with XFCE via VcXsrv plus Android on Pixel & WearOS using AndroidStudio on Windows 10 🤯

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How did you manage to do that? WSL doesn't support GUIs (for now)...?

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On 11/2/2020 at 1:02 PM, LN-12 said:

How did you manage to do that? WSL doesn't support GUIs (for now)...?

You can run XFCE on WSL via VcXsrv, and it works really well.

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I build custom Linux systems on different hardware architectures for living 😉

 

Laptop: HP Envy x360 convertible 13-ay0xxx / Ryzen 7 4700U / 16G 3200MHZ RAM

Desktop: ASRock B450M Pro4 / Ryzen 7 1700X / Arctic Freezer 33 eSports ONE / Corsair Vengeance LPX Kit 16GB, DDR4-2666MHz / Samsung 970 EVO M.2 SSD - 500GB / Thermaltake TR2 S - 450W / Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-05 Case

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