Virtualize or not? And if yes, how?

[skarsol]

Trying to mess with video card passthrough is likely not going to help matters. You shouldn't be having display issues with RDP on your local network. Is your network saturated? You could look into an RDP alternative like NoMachine or Splashtop which are both much more lightweight than RDP.

Do you have the VMWare guest tools installed? I've never seen an OpenGL issue in standard VMWare VMs.

[jkmonroe]

it's IVB. i've never seen half of his issues ... ever.

tell you what, though, if you're a VMWare engineer, you should probably hire him for QA. just be like, dude, go through and touch this stuff then let me know what breaks. :-D

[znelbok]

LOL. My FIL is the same - Passion fingers. His nickname is G-Virus

[IVB]

yeah, say the guys who don't actually use their VMs for client machines, and they're just back-end servers.

Like I told SWL, some of us try and do more than just automate 5-10 different protocols. (Now at 22 different types of devices, with everything zWave counting as *one*).

[skarsol]

Seriously, adding a video card won't solve anything and will just result in more problems. VMware on randomhardware065 is tricky at best. Nomachine is free. Try that before you try to 'fix' RDP.

[SomeWhatLost]

I believe IVB has infected my server and caused my Cache SSD's to crash and burn... I don't know how, although I can sort of guess why, but I am convinced it was evil IVB extracting his vengeance upon mehock:

been having some issues lately with my CQC VM falling asleep/the VM going into a paused state...

also been having some issues with my Sage Docker and the spinning wheel of DOOM!... and long pauses...

well, for an unrelated issue, I did a power cycle of my unRAID server...
and when everything came back up, there was no Sage docker anymore, there was no Win7/cqc VM anymore... and there was no cache drive anymore....

I had previously moved most of sage off to an "unassigned" drive, so that was easy enough to get back up and running...

but CQC... I did make a back up of cqc when I upgraded to v5.0.1... unfortunately that backup was local on the VM....
I did have a backup of the CQC VM... but that was just a copy on the same cache drive... in hind sight, it might of been better to put the copy of the VM on the array, at least that has a parity disk:-(

anyway, moral of the story is make sure you are managing your backups...
you never know what evil disruption IVB is up to...

and now I can't even get unRAID's VM manager/doohicky to start... claims to be in need of some Libvirt files, but according to the help it should just create them if it can't find them...

[IVB]

looks like its time for a

[SomeWhatLost]

officer 116553 looks to have enough grenades to totally go postal if need be...

[skarsol]

RAID is not a backup! Also, unRAID makes me cringe. I didn't realize it could use a cache drive now though, that's nice.

[SomeWhatLost]

I quite happen to like unRAID, it has managed to outlast all my previous "real" solutions combined...
it is a fair bit slower, but for my needs that doesn't matter.
technically, unraid has a cache "pool" now, based on btrfs...
and having a copy of my windows VM on the array would have been a backup, admittedly not a great backup in and of itself, but it would of been a backup...
what would of made it a better back up is also having it on unraid box#2 whose whole purpose in life is to be a back for unraid box #1...

but I didn't do any of that, I just had a backup on the same physical cache drive that failed... that probably was not a very good backup...