(Part 2) Top products from r/VFIO

Just looked at the product, it's using x1 PCI slot, and 2.0 at that, so only 500MBps(USB 3.0 max 5GBps is equivalent to 625MBps, you don't get full bandwidth). It's a single controller so all 4 ports share same bandwidth, I've heard the brand of the controller is good though!

This is a 3.1 Vantec card, it is x4 PCI 2.0 slot(2000MBps), single controller and only 2 ports, but you'll get the full 10Gbps/1.25GBps out of it.

They also have USB 3.0 PCIe 2.0 x4 cards with 4 ports like the one you linked but with dual or quad controllers(one for each port): https://www.amazon.com/Vantec-4-Port-Dedicated-Components-UGT-PCE430-2C/dp/B00NVVSVN8/

The quad one due to PCIe 2.0 speeds could only handle 3 ports at full bandwidth(625MBps each), only drawback compared to the one you linked is it requires a x4 or greater PCI slot, so you'd probably not be able to add multiple like intended(might be able to pass through individual controllers? not sure).

First of all, in order to enable GPU acceleration, windows needs to think there's a monitor attached to the video card, so you may need a dongle like this one.

You can also use an hdmi -> vga adaptor like this or anything else that fools the operating system into thinking there's a monitor attached, unless you want to plug in a real monitor, but since your final goal is to use the VM through remote access, I don't think that would be ideal.

I do this to play games with steam in-home streaming server running in a VM(also have virtual mouse/keyboard attached or windows 10 won't show cursor pointer) and works great.

While steam in home streaming is not ideal for remote desktop access, there are some alternatives that can work, such as turbovnc which apparently was designed for running 3d applications remotely(haven't tried though)

Easiest solution for me was to pass through a PCIe USB hub. This is the one I got, I found it recommended in an old post. Also picked up one of these. Plugged an aux cable from that into the microphone jack in the onboard audio. Then just use pavucontrol to set it up as a loopback device to whatever your physical device is.

Also did M+KB with the USB hub and a hardware KVM switch. There are other means to do it, with the Software KVM Switch and Evdev passthrough but I found the hardware solution to be the easiest and fastest.

They make little HDMI plugs that emulate monitors. They are pretty cheap and will allow you to stream at 1080p. I got this one (below) and it works great.

http://www.amazon.com/CompuLab-fit-Headless-Display-Emulator/dp/B00FLZXGJ6

> is it possible to have both W10 and linux on the small 64gb raid zero

You might be able to squeeze it in if you add mounts on another drive for opt and home and maybe even var if you have to (if you're going to run services on the linux side).
My Windows 10 install is currently sitting at 51GB.
I suspect you'll run into space issues though.

There's no great reason to restrict either side to only 10 cores.
Let them float and go where they are needed.

I actually boot my system off of a USB stick so that I could put all of drives right into the LVM pool.
This one in particular was recommended for its long-term stability (it doesn't overheat et. al.)

I do not believe anyone has gotten SLI working but it's worth looking around for the latest news.

> how do i partition my 1tb drive such that both windows and linux can share the entirety of the bulk drive?

Eh ... that's not going to happen. You could run Samba on the Linux side and share it to Windows but this has some performance overhead so it's not great for a game volume.

You could use LVM so that you can dynamically grow the volumes as you need more space.
I believe you have to reboot the VM but you can grow the linux volume on-the-fly.

I found that new AM4 itx boards (including Asrock x370, Asrock AB350, Gigabyte GA-AB350N) has M.2 socket on the back, so it's little tricky to install this adapter, because it's higher than the gap between mainboard and case

Take little search and I found this of a guy on /r/pcmasterrace. So the solution for us is: Bplus: P14S-P14FP, but unfortunately it's currently unavailable and seem that it will not being production anymore.

But Bplus (the vendor of above product) has new product and look like it's more flexible and promising. Currently I can not find it's being sold anywhere, I will try to contact them to get one and we will see it works or not

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06W2HJKVC

However, I only needed an 8x adapter, so...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ZTEFGG

So if you need a 16x slot:

https://www.amazon.com/Supermicro-RSC-R1U-E16R-Rsc-R1U-E16R-Riser-Card/dp/B00MJ5AWR0

Hope that helps

Edit: I haven't installed the angled bracket yet.

I thought about Synergy, but I chose to go with a cheap hardware solution instead. I have my mouse and keyboard hooked up to a USB hub which is in turned hooked up to this USB switch. This switch is connected to my host via the USB ports on the back of the motherboard and the guest through a USB controller card that I passed through. It works extremely well. The only downside for me is that it takes a couple seconds for the mouse and keyboard to initialize every time I switch it.

I have successfully passed through one of these cards to a hackintosh running on a virtual machine:

https://www.amazon.com/Inateck-Express-Controller-Internal-Connector/dp/B00JFR2H64

It features a fresco fl1100 controller which has native macos drivers in at least high sierra and mojave.

I went with a different approach. I got a set of these speakers and this cable. I then ran that cable from the audio output on my monitor to the speakers and set the VM to use the monitor's audio. The speakers mix the audio with hosts audio so it's fairly seemless.

I'm guessing something like that won't work in your situation

Yea, I wouldn't bet on it being in my favor, but i found a cheap PCI gpu, is this good enough to take over the load of X while im in the guest os? (I wont be running a monitor) here

nvm they cost a lot more then i was thinking this is the RX480 pro card iirc 580$
https://www.amazon.com/AMD-W7100-PCI-Express3-0-DisplayPorts-AMD100-505724/dp/B00UNSSZX8

Absolutely, here you go

I've ordered this card to give it a try: ORICO USB 3.0 PCI-E Expansion Card (PVU3-2O2I). It's $16 right now and has a 19-pin connector for the front USB 3.0 ports.

I had some compatibility issues with windows 7 I went with windows 10 instead. If you have a spare pci-e slot you could get one of these or something similar and pass the whole controller: Inateck Superspeed 4 Ports PCI-E to USB 3.0 Expansion Card - Interface USB 3.0 4-Port Express Card Desktop with 15 Pin SATA Power Connector, [ Include with A 4pin to 2x15pin Cable + A 15pin to 2x 15pin SATA Y-Cable ] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B6ZCNGM/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_lbEbAbMT2P5SP

Sorry I know this isn't a huge help for your use case.

It's a cheap HDMI switcher from Amazon. Nothing special. I've noticed the graphical corruption is almost always due to faulty cables.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0030AZ44O/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

You can just buy a piece of shit 30 dollar GPU for the host. It's what I did, I have a 1800x coming.

I bought this:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004WYV8Z6/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1