G'day all,
DELL R520, H710 RAID6, WD reds. 2 x Xeon 2450 v2 55GB RAM, Proxmox user for about 6 years. iSCIS volume of a NAS for vmbackups.
I've been using this box quite happily for a multitude of linux VMs, all quite happy for a year or so.
Even the windows VMs have been ok.
So took the plunge and added a AMD RG220 Graphics (PCoIP version) , and passed it through to a Win10 VM,
(Client is a PCoIP TERA2321 thin client, which has worked very well over the years, keeping noisy tin out of the living room. )
One thing I've had to do is blacklist the AMD's onboard snd_hda_intel, as that just hang prox on boot. (debian bug it seems...)
Win10 grumbled and BSOD at first, but eventually settled down and is now stable. ( First attempt, lost the mouse/keyboard after a windows update so had to start again. )
but performance is a bit... lacking... compared with non-pass through VMs I intailly only gave it 8 cores, but upped it to 16. VM has 16GB of RAM (non baloon)
Inside the VM, windows reports CPU usage 20% ? - mem usage is 40%
but what I do see in task manger is System interrupts wiht high usage... this is born out when using sound with all sorts of pops and crackles. (using USB over IP to the sound bar.)
here's the dirt,
Promxox VE 6.2-2
anything look untoward ?
would dumping the AMD's bios help ? (rombar etc...?)
Any other thoughts ?
Many thanks
Mark
DELL R520, H710 RAID6, WD reds. 2 x Xeon 2450 v2 55GB RAM, Proxmox user for about 6 years. iSCIS volume of a NAS for vmbackups.
I've been using this box quite happily for a multitude of linux VMs, all quite happy for a year or so.
Even the windows VMs have been ok.
So took the plunge and added a AMD RG220 Graphics (PCoIP version) , and passed it through to a Win10 VM,
(Client is a PCoIP TERA2321 thin client, which has worked very well over the years, keeping noisy tin out of the living room. )
One thing I've had to do is blacklist the AMD's onboard snd_hda_intel, as that just hang prox on boot. (debian bug it seems...)
Win10 grumbled and BSOD at first, but eventually settled down and is now stable. ( First attempt, lost the mouse/keyboard after a windows update so had to start again. )
but performance is a bit... lacking... compared with non-pass through VMs I intailly only gave it 8 cores, but upped it to 16. VM has 16GB of RAM (non baloon)
Inside the VM, windows reports CPU usage 20% ? - mem usage is 40%
but what I do see in task manger is System interrupts wiht high usage... this is born out when using sound with all sorts of pops and crackles. (using USB over IP to the sound bar.)
here's the dirt,
Promxox VE 6.2-2
Code:
agent: 1
balloon: 0
bios: ovmf
boot: dcn
bootdisk: sata0
cores: 16
cpu: host
efidisk0: local-pvedata0:1015/vm-1015-disk-1.qcow2,size=128K
hostpci0: 43:00,pcie=1,x-vga=1
hostpci1: 44:00,pcie=1
machine: q35
memory: 16384
name: 1015-Win10x
net0: e1000=96:A6:E3:35:8A:EC,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1
numa: 1
ostype: win10
sata0: local-pvedata0:1015/vm-1015-disk-0.qcow2,cache=writethrough,size=450G
sata2: local:iso/virtio-win-0.1.190.iso,media=cdrom,size=489986K
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=52917f26-bd8d-4363-98cd-61a726d7a3bf
sockets: 1
vmgenid: 5d9c41e7-e21d-472a-8670-1f917ffd0911anything look untoward ?
would dumping the AMD's bios help ? (rombar etc...?)
Any other thoughts ?
Many thanks
Mark
