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    [SOLVED] TASK ERROR: IOMMU not present adding two port nic to VM

    OK so i took the card out and found that it has the SAME NAME AS MY ONBOARD LAN. Because I have a poweredge I have 2 onboard Lans already. So it came down to the fact I picked the wrong one. I would recommend anyone that tries to do this write down your PCI device ID's for your current NIC's...
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    [SOLVED] TASK ERROR: IOMMU not present adding two port nic to VM

    that is correct! i need the two ports for WAN/Lan for the pfsense
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    [SOLVED] TASK ERROR: IOMMU not present adding two port nic to VM

    im about at my wits end here guys. Here are some outputs. root@pve7:~# dmesg | grep -i vfio [ 10.533481] VFIO - User Level meta-driver version: 0.3 root@pve7:~# find /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/ -type l | grep 01:00 /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/16/devices/0000:01:00.0...
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    [SOLVED] TASK ERROR: IOMMU not present adding two port nic to VM

    Im not out of the woods yet BUT i fixed most of my issues (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Pci_passthrough#Enable_the_IOMMU) as per that doc i needed to add iommu=pt to the grub entry and did this "echo "options vfio_iommu_type1 allow_unsafe_interrupts=1" >...
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    [SOLVED] TASK ERROR: IOMMU not present adding two port nic to VM

    So i am trying to load pfSense on a VM and do a PCI passthrough for the nic. I am on 7.x i followed these steps to enable Dells version of IOMMU https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000144029/enabling-sr-iov-technology-on-dell-poweredge-servers then followed...
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    Is it possible to make a shared folder in 5.3

    can i deploy at NFS server as a VM or does it have to be physical?
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    Very Slow VMs on 5.3

    i have one USB drive with 4 HD's in it that is currently not plugged in at the moment but here is the logs once I did the reboot. do you think that maybe I made the Zpool wrong?
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    Very Slow VMs on 5.3

    ok they are attached.
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    Very Slow VMs on 5.3

    how would I do that?
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    Very Slow VMs on 5.3

    Hello All, I am not sure what I am doing wrong. But I have tried to build 3 different vm's all of which use very little resources but each time I build a VM it takes over 15 mins to boot, and hours to install. Now to be very clear when I am doing the install no other VMs are on at the time...
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    Is it possible to make a shared folder in 5.3

    Hey guys, Just so you know I am coming from using VMware. So I am trying to see if there is similar functionality here. If not, that isn't a big deal. So this is what I am looking for. On my VMware setup I had one server (vm) that was VPN box that shared a folder (or hard drive) that to a...
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    High memory usage on 5.3

    Yes I do run ZFS. So would it be easier to buy a hardware raid controller and use it?
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    High memory usage on 5.3

    Hello All, My latest thing I see is the very high memory usage on my Proxmox box. I am running 2 linux vm's with memory ballooning turned on. One is set to 512 to balloon up to 2gb <- this vm has a usb drive emulation turned on and the other is set to 256mb to balloon up to 1gb When I do a...
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    New to ZFS and Proxmox

    and just like that, it's working again! Thanks guys. You made a old man happy!