unraid 4 Gamers 1 PC

[Virtualize]

Hello Guys

I could choose with my companions at work what kind of Project we want to do, so we came up with the idea of making 4Gamers 1Pc. We have all the parts and all is built. Here are our specs: Mainboard: Asus Z10DE-D8 WS, CPU's: Xeon E2630 v4, 4 Graficcards: GTX 550Ti, RAM: Kingston ECC Ram 4 sticks with 16Gb each, 4 SSD's with 120gb each and 4 HDD's with 500gb each (were gonne use win10). Now we have a problem, we can only get one VM running, all the others have a blackscreen and nothing happens. And I think the one we to run was pure luck, because the version Linus used on his 2Gamers 1Pc was 6.1.3, while ours is 6.2.2, a lot is different and more complicated.(If you want do create a VM you can now only choose templates not like Linus, he made a costum one, now if you pick a custom one, you have to write it all with xml.) The software now creates shares without you even creating them, like for example domain, appdata. So the one I got running, I just took random shares till it worked, but the others dont seem to work. I don't know what I should do, should use the shares that Linus created in his video? Or the ones that the Software created, and if I use the ones that the Software made, which ones do I have to use. I really need help, if someone else is doing something like what I am trying to do please tell how you did it all with the shares and everything, maybe I did something wrong. Thank you a lot.  

[The_Denks]

7 minutes ago, Virtualize said:

Hello Guys

I could choose with my companions at work what kind of Project we want to do, so we came up with the idea of making 4Gamers 1Pc. We have all the parts and all is built. Here are our specs: Mainboard: Asus Z10DE-D8 WS, CPU's: Xeon E2630 v4, 4 Graficcards: GTX 550Ti, RAM: Kingston ECC Ram 4 sticks with 16Gb each, 4 SSD's with 120gb each and 4 HDD's with 500gb each (were gonne use win10). Now we have a problem, we can only get one VM running, all the others have a blackscreen and nothing happens. And I think the one we to run was pure luck, because the version Linus used on his 2Gamers 1Pc was 6.1.3, while ours is 6.2.2, a lot is different and more complicated.(If you want do create a VM you can now only choose templates not like Linus, he made a costum one, now if you pick a custom one, you have to write it all with xml.) The software now creates shares without you even creating them, like for example domain, appdata. So the one I got running, I just took random shares till it worked, but the others dont seem to work. I don't know what I should do, should use the shares that Linus created in his video? Or the ones that the Software created, and if I use the ones that the Software made, which ones do I have to use. I really need help, if someone else is doing something like what I am trying to do please tell how you did it all with the shares and everything, maybe I did something wrong. Thank you a lot.  

a 550ti will have terrible performance.

Get a 750ti at least

 

If you can afford 4, get some 960's

[Gruenbaum]

Agreed maybe even gtx 1060

[Electronics Wizardy]

First thing id do is install something like debian or centos. There free and much more customizable.

 

Then install a windows 7 os, clone it 4 times and make a add the gpus

[jj9987]

I am using unRAID in my home server so I can give some advice. Quote me if you have more questions.

 

Just take the template of the OS you are planning to install. I am pretty sure that for your needs you can easily find the necessary one and fill it out. No need for custom one.

Yes, new unRaid does create some shares by default. Whether you want to create more or not, is up to you. The default domains share contains the virtual hard disks for every VM. That is by default, if you do not change the path.

 

A share is pretty much a folder, that can be accessed over the network (and therefor by all VMs as well). If you want to have a separate share for games, you can do that. If you will be using/needing Shadowplay, you may create separate one for that.

[Virtualize]

16 hours ago, UberGamerKing said:

a 550ti will have terrible performance.

Get a 750ti at least

 

If you can afford 4, get some 960's

I know but, we just wanna get it running first and then invest more in Cards.

[Virtualize]

15 hours ago, jj9987 said:

I am using unRAID in my home server so I can give some advice. Quote me if you have more questions.

 

Just take the template of the OS you are planning to install. I am pretty sure that for your needs you can easily find the necessary one and fill it out. No need for custom one.

Yes, new unRaid does create some shares by default. Whether you want to create more or not, is up to you. The default domains share contains the virtual hard disks for every VM. That is by default, if you do not change the path.

 

A share is pretty much a folder, that can be accessed over the network (and therefor by all VMs as well). If you want to have a separate share for games, you can do that. If you will be using/needing Shadowplay, you may create separate one for that.

Thanks for youre reply, today I tried it again. I even activated in the BIOS SR-IOV, but still only one vm is running while, the others only have a blackscreen. Do you know the issue maybe?

[Virtualize]

16 hours ago, Gruenbaum said:

Agreed maybe even gtx 1060

yeah I know performance will be quite bad but, the main thing of this projekt is the virtualization. If it works im sure later we can upgrade this a lot. 

[jj9987]

37 minutes ago, Virtualize said:

Thanks for youre reply, today I tried it again. I even activated in the BIOS SR-IOV, but still only one vm is running while, the others only have a blackscreen. Do you know the issue maybe?
*pics*

SR-IOV means that one PCI Express device can be used as multiple devices. This is not what you need, because graphics cards do not support such feature (it is mostly used for NICs). Leave it disabled, will cause less trouble. 

You must have a separate GPU to each VM (if you have 2 VMs, you will need 2 GPUs).

[Virtualize]

15 minutes ago, jj9987 said:

SR-IOV means that one PCI Express device can be used as multiple devices. This is not what you need, because graphics cards do not support such feature (it is mostly used for NICs). Leave it disabled, will cause less trouble. 

You must have a separate GPU to each VM (if you have 2 VMs, you will need 2 GPUs).

Ok I will deactivate it, I have 4 GPU's for 4 Vm's but still there is a blackscreen, maybe if you want I can send you fotos of how I have set up one of the VM's.

[Mikensan]

Once you assign a video card to the VM and launch the VM - have you connected a monitor to every port on that card? It could just be outputting to a different port.

[Virtualize]

3 hours ago, Mikensan said:

Once you assign a video card to the VM and launch the VM - have you connected a monitor to every port on that card? It could just be outputting to a different port.

I only could do that with one VM the others just have all a blackscreen, while im running all VM's. I dont know why..... And now the only one that is running installs Windows and then just shuts down. Then when I restart it the program sais there is no opertating system, great....

[leadeater]

11 hours ago, Virtualize said:

I only could do that with one VM the others just have all a blackscreen, while im running all VM's. I dont know why..... And now the only one that is running installs Windows and then just shuts down. Then when I restart it the program sais there is no opertating system, great....

Give unRAID support a call/email, I bet they will be able to help out.

 

As mentioned you need a GPU for unRAID and then a GPU properly assigned to each VM for direct connectivity to work.

 

17 hours ago, jj9987 said:

SR-IOV means that one PCI Express device can be used as multiple devices. This is not what you need, because graphics cards do not support such feature (it is mostly used for NICs).

AMD actually has a product line of server GPUs that support SR-IOV that competes with Nvidia GRID GPUs. On the technical and compatibility side of things AMD's SR-IOV approach is actually better than Nvidia's driver/software method. Kinda cool but for us useless information since both product lines from AMD and Nvidia mentioned are way out of our price reach.

[Virtualize]

1 hour ago, leadeater said:

Give unRAID support a call/email, I bet they will be able to help out.

 

As mentioned you need a GPU for unRAID and then a GPU properly assigned to each VM for direct connectivity to work.

 

AMD actually has a product line of server GPUs that support SR-IOV that competes with Nvidia GRID GPUs. On the technical and compatibility side of things AMD's SR-IOV approach is actually better than Nvidia's driver/software method. Kinda cool but for us useless information since both product lines from AMD and Nvidia mentioned are way out of our price reach.

Yes thank you, I will do that today. I'm sure they can help me.