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    Quad port 2.5GB NIC i226 or RTL8125B? IOMMU?

    it will depend on your motherboard and the pcie-NIC you have. this is also a hit-N-miss scenario..., though, i only read it in the interwebs... some cards may or mayNOT allow your CPU to go into a lower Cstates... do more research, choose your NIC and update us here... note: i also don't have...
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    PCI Passthrough Problems

    although this is quite old, I'll try to add my inputs with this. I have a similar problem with this passing a PCI card (dual intel nic) unto 2 different processor/motherboard combo: 1st group: intel xeon e5520 + intel dx58so 2nd group: intel xeon e3-1220l + asrock p67 extreme4 as far as I...
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    bonding querry (balance-alb)

    thanks for such inputs, I'll try to note with what you have said with iperf, I hope I can complete what I'm making. anyways, its just that with diskless softwares, they utilize a single ethernet port on the server of which is distributed to clients like 10 to 20 diskless workstations or even...
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    bonding querry (balance-alb)

    greetings, I'll try this here hope someone will be able to answer or point me to the right direction. here is the scenario: lets say I have a 'diskless server' (will be virtuallized essentially), this specific server serves workstations without physical disk to be able to boot windows...
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    yet another passthrough question

    yeah, the migrate thing seems a good point, thanks for the responses.
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    yet another passthrough question

    thanks for the quick response sir! anyways, what you have suggested will be my final approach just in case I give up on nic passthrough. also, Off Topic, I might need to open a new topic on this one, anyways, since you have experience on those bonding, have you tried bonding nics without...
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    yet another passthrough question

    hello Q-wulf the reason I'm trying to passthrough 'devices' to VMS are: -- trying to experiment -- to have the VM have exclusive rights to a device -- and why nics are passedthrough, because its for use for a UTM appliance and 1 VM that serves diskless workstations I know some will argue that...
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    yet another passthrough question

    greetings to all, I am currently evaluating proxmox and I'm able to create "regular" VM's without problems. Going past creating regular VM's, I'm trying to passthrough some intel ethernet card(s) and I will have problems if: -- two physical intel ethernet cards are passthrough to a single...