KVM on 2008 MacPro 8-core

[cTurtle98]

I have a 2008 MacPro 8 core

 

This one:

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_pro/specs/mac-pro-eight-core-3.2-2008-specs.html

 

Does anyone know a KVM that can run on this machine and host MacOS ?

 

My cpu never gets over 15% total usage across all cores

 

I have tried VirtualBox but it doesn't work well enough

 

I want to assign some cores to each machine.

 

I want to run multiple versions of MacOS and windows on top of the KVM

 

does anyone know a KVM os that will work for this?

 

oh yeah i want to run a dedicated OSX Server install so its needs to not have to reboot the KVM to re-assign hardware

 

(I will report any comments that are just people shitting on me for having a mac as my main machine)

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 minutes ago, cTurtle98 said:

I want to assign some cores to each machine.

You can give all 8 cores to each vm, a core  can be assigned to as many vms as you want.

 

4 minutes ago, cTurtle98 said:

I want to run multiple versions of MacOS and windows on top of the KVM

The only offical way to do that is vmware workstation or esxi.

 

4 minutes ago, cTurtle98 said:

I have tried VirtualBox but it doesn't work well enough

Whats wrong? How many cores did you give the vm? Did you install the drivers?

[cTurtle98]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Whats wrong? How many cores did you give the vm? Did you install the drivers?

On the machine I want to have my main mac install, my windows gaming install, and a OSX Server install. by using virtualbox i have to have one of them on all the time without being able to restart without effecting the others. If i have a KVM i can have them running next to each other without having one dependant on the other

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, cTurtle98 said:

On the machine I want to have my main mac install, my windows gaming install, and a OSX Server install. by using virtualbox i have to have one of them on all the time without being able to restart without effecting the others. If i have a KVM i can have them running next to each other without having one dependant on the other

Do you mean VM with KVM.

 

KVM is either a keyboard, video and mouse switch or the linux virtulaztion software.

 

Your not going to have a gaming pc running in a vm.

 

Depending on your use, id probably just dual boot as your not going to have a gaming pc in a vm or mac os x in a vm.

 

 

If you want a host os, the only apple approved way is ESXI, but you can't play games on the windows vm or use the monitor connections. It would be a server. 

 

[cTurtle98]

13 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

vmware workstation

from the vmware website it looks like it needs A host OS and cant run as a KVM

 

http://www.vmware.com/products/workstation.html

http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion.html

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, cTurtle98 said:

from the vmware website it looks like it needs A host OS and cant run as a KVM

 

http://www.vmware.com/products/workstation.html

http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion.html

Vmware esxi then. THe problem is

 

-you can't play games on it

-You need anouhter computer to use it

-You can't use the onboard monitors(they show this imagehttps://www.google.com/search?q=esxi+screen&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjSn6XihqfPAhXB5IMKHT2xCUoQ_AUICCgB&biw=1440&bih=799#imgrc=PDBbss6YqSIBOM%3A 

[cTurtle98]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Vmware esxi then. THe problem is

 

-you can't play games on it

-You need anouhter computer to use it

-You can't use the onboard monitors(they show this imagehttps://www.google.com/search?q=esxi+screen&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjSn6XihqfPAhXB5IMKHT2xCUoQ_AUICCgB&biw=1440&bih=799#imgrc=PDBbss6YqSIBOM%3A 

 

this vmware stuff doesent support hardware passthrough?

like on the multiple gamers on one computer LTT video

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, cTurtle98 said:

 

this vmware stuff doesent support hardware passthrough?

like on the multiple gamers on one computer LTT video

Your system doesn't support hardware passthrough. 

 

Id just dual boot, there is no easy way to do this.

[nikadotme]

On 9/24/2016 at 7:21 AM, Electronics Wizardy said:

Do you mean VM with KVM.

 

KVM is either a keyboard, video and mouse switch or the linux virtulaztion software.

 

Your not going to have a gaming pc running in a vm.

 

Depending on your use, id probably just dual boot as your not going to have a gaming pc in a vm or mac os x in a vm.

 

 

If you want a host os, the only apple approved way is ESXI, but you can't play games on the windows vm or use the monitor connections. It would be a server. 

 

KVM Switch is different thing, they are about Linux KVM... Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) 

 

it is linux kernel module for virtualization. 

 

On 9/24/2016 at 7:01 AM, cTurtle98 said:

I have a 2008 MacPro 8 core

 

This one:

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_pro/specs/mac-pro-eight-core-3.2-2008-specs.html

 

Does anyone know a KVM that can run on this machine and host MacOS ?

 

My cpu never gets over 15% total usage across all cores

 

I have tried VirtualBox but it doesn't work well enough

 

I want to assign some cores to each machine.

 

I want to run multiple versions of MacOS and windows on top of the KVM

 

does anyone know a KVM os that will work for this?

 

oh yeah i want to run a dedicated OSX Server install so its needs to not have to reboot the KVM to re-assign hardware

 

(I will report any comments that are just people shitting on me for having a mac as my main machine)

If you are trying to play, or trying to have better performance in video and so on, use Parallels Desktop 12 and you'll see big difference, other VMs are not optimized for video intensive things and so on  KVM is for VM's like webserver and so on, it is good for having several desktops virtually.