I want to run two Win VM which don't need much gpu or cpu power and a TRUE NAS VM and i want to have the win VM output on physical monitor I plan on not using a GPU and only a Ryzen 5
Two Win Vms on proxmox
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For a TrueNAS VM you probably want to buy a HBA card and pass that through to your VM. You won't get physical monitor output without passing through a GPU. So you need to buy two GPUs too, one for each of those Win VMs in case you want to run them in parallel with monitor output.
Not that easy to passthrough 3 PCIe devices with consumer mainboards.
Not that easy to passthrough 3 PCIe devices with consumer mainboards.
Can't i simply pass through sata hdd as I need only 3 disks in truenas?
And can't i do anything with iGPU if I get the G series processor?
And can't i do anything with iGPU if I get the G series processor?
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Depends. You can use disk passthrough but that won't passthrough the real physical disks. Your TrueNAS will only work with virtual disks so stuff like SMART won't work in TrueNAS.
Only way how a VM could access the real physical SATA disks would be to passthrough the whole disk controller with ALL disks attached to it (so no passthrough of individual disks possible).
Depends. Many mainboards/BIOSs don't allow to passthrough your only GPU. Also keep in mind that hardware can only be used by one OS. Even if you could passthrough that iGPU to your first WinVM, the second WinVM and the PVE host then wouldn't be able to use any hardware acceleration or output any picture.
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Ok do I need hba cards only or sata expansion cards will work as hba sas cards are 12000INR+ and sata cards are like 4-5k
For win vm will it work if i have one vm with windows server with multiseat and give it a gt710 or 730
For win vm will it work if i have one vm with windows server with multiseat and give it a gt710 or 730
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Keep in mind that the card also needs to support PCI passthrough. You get way better chances that enterprise features like PCI passthrough are supported when buying proper enterprise hardware like the LSI/Broadcom HBA cards. Otherwise its more or less gambling if that SATA card will work or not and reset properly.
That would be one option.
Thanks a lot I just had one more question that if I want to have a caching nvme sss on truenas will I need a pci card for it for all features or it will work fine?
Depends on how your mainboards M.2 slots are connected. If the PCIe lanes are connected to the CPU than you usually should be able to use PCI passthrough. If a M.2 slot is connected to the chipset it might share the IOMMU group with many other devices and then a passthrough into a VM might not be possible.
Ok and I just had an idea if it would be ok to run TrueNAS Scale as host OS and then run windows VM on it
If you care more about NAS features and less about virtualization, then that might be a valid option.