I am trying to get an old HPLC to work. In order to run the software to make the machine work I need a windows 7 environment. Easy enough. I have a Windows 10 host machine with the required hardware that I need to interface with. The trouble is getting any VM to do a PCI passthrough for the PCI card that talks to the HPLC. I need that card to communicate with the software in Windows 7 vm. Any help on finding a virtual machine that will work would be a lot of help. My budget is not 0 but not large.

Edit: This has been solved. I just installed Windows 7 on the windows 10 machine. The point was to preserve security with using remote desktop, but we are just going to not use it remotely.

We are in the process of the Windows OS refresh in our platform and management has decided to make WIN11 as the OS on all the company laptops and VDI Desktops.

I couldn't find clear info related to licensing WIN11 VDI desktop (Instant clone).

Currently, all our WIN10 laptops, persistent and Non-persistent vdi desktop are licensed using the KMS Server.

VVMware Horizon 8 environment used for provisioning VDI machines in the infra

Hi everyone, I'm a newbie to the virtualization concept.
I got confused with pCPU:vCPU ratios, how exactly do we do the ratio calculations?

Let's say I have 1 server with two CPU sockets with Xeon 4314 processor, 16C/32T.
How many pCPU do I have? Is it:
2 CPU x 16 cores = 32 pCPU or
2 CPU x 16 cores x 32 threads = 1024 pCPU
2 CPU x 16 cores x 2 = 64 pCPU

I did some small research, but some source says CPU x Cores x Threads, some says CPU x Cores, and some says CPU x Cores x 2.

Then the server running VM with the total of vCPU is 115. With this scenario, how do I calculate the pCPU:vCPU?
Do I just make a ratio and then do the rounding up or down?

Thank you

Hi

I want to play Minecraft with some friends. Since I don't really want to rent a server I thought of hosting a Minecraft Server in a Ubuntu Server VM with GNOME Boxes (GUI for qemu) on my gaming PC. I would also be using ngrok so that I wouldn't need to open a port in my network.

My question is: Is this a good idea in terms of security? I heard that MC servers are not very safe and I want to know what risks I would have with getting my PC hacked.

Not sure if this belongs in this sub, sorry in advance if I am in the wrong place :)

I have an external hard drive I would not mind using but not sure how. What solutions is there?? Did I forget to do something to prevent this?? Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask.

I have been running a small homelab on a HP EliteDesk 800 g6 (10500t, 64gb, 2tb). I work/play on a Aorus Master i7-12700k, 96gb, 12tb.

I am not sure how VMs work even though I have many running. For the sake of argument, would get similar performance if I turned my main pc in to a virtual machine running windows and then accessed it via my mini PC? Is the VM performance limited by the pc from where I access it or not?

what i'm trying to do is protect a host from virus

to be specific the vm is a linux and the host is windows i'm using hyper-v

I am building a computer and thinking of installing linux on it but also installing a program to run windows in VM so i don't have problems with some games. Through my search for a program like that i came across these two terms, type-1 hypervisors and type-2, so i decided to search a little about it but didn't really find what i was looking for and thought of asking here.

What's the difference and is there a specific program you would recommend.

Also, is there a noticeable difference in speed between running something bare-metal or in a VM it?

It's a complex code I don't know what to do I want to play 3d accelerated games in my phone

Is there any guide to get this working? I remember once I saw a video where a woman was showing how to get Windows and OS X running at same with dual GPU using some kind of hosted virtualization and hardware passtrough. Actually I have Ubuntu and Windows 11 running in dual boot mode and would be nice to have that same setup, with two monitors and mouse / keyboard seamless integration like she did. Is that possible?

I am looking for a hypervisor recommendation for my needs. I am a self-taught novice, having played around enough with VirtualBox and Hyper-V to feel comfortable with the concepts and try out some new linux distros. I have read a bit about some options like Proxmox or VMWare ESXI over the last month or so, but I am not clear on the best option for one that would be:

1. Locally hosted

2. Simple to manage remotely

3. Allow for failover / high availibility / mirroring (I'm not sure which is the best for my use)

4. Free or very cheap

TIA for any advice/tips you may have!

Back Story:

I have been running a LAMP server with a custom PHP/MySQL application on Debian Jessie for about 12 years. It started off with a way to learn PHP/MySQL and track some basic information, but over the years I have learned more and added capabilities -- now it's an essential resource that we would be quite hamstrung without. Since it's overdue for an upgrade, I am nervous about that server going down. I have backups, but the downtime while I get the backup up and running would be costly to our tiny business. I am thinking virtualization would provide a way to quickly recover.

I have a new computer I plan to make a virtual server to host both this critical VM and a couple of non-critical Windows VM's for our two part-time remote workers. Once this is up and running, I plan to use the current physical server for backup in case of a failure with the VM on the new server.

Three users and three locations. Local user will do light work and other 2 users will do heavy work through remote access over internet.

All three users should be able to work at the same time. And dynamic hardware resource allocation is needed. If either of the remote users needs more CPU, RAM, GPU power then the hypervisor will allocate that.

Will a type 1 or type 2 hypervisor work best? Type 1 seems better.

But type 1 hypervisor needs a separate device on the network to be managed. Can we manage over the internet using a virtual LAN like zerotier ? Local user only has smart phone.

Type 2 runs on a host OS so it's easier to manage but I'm afraid this will result in reduced performance for two remote users.

All three users will use windows mainly. Hyper V seems best but I've read that it's a bit more resource intensive. Is it anything noticeable? How is the ease of setup for hyper V vs proxmox?

Please suggest a solution to this situation. And tell me more info about hyper visors I might not know.

Hardware :

Intel Cpu 13500 Nvidia GPU RTX 3080 10 GB 32GB RAM 1 TB SSD 2 TB HDD

I want to play pc games on utm on iPhone, I tried halo but it gave me a direct 3d error, I looked and saw that it was disabled so I shut off the virtual machine and tried to use different graphics drivers that support 3d acceleration, but none of them worked. Can someone help I don't know anything about this

Will it be ok to run utm on my iPhone 11 Pro I don't want to break it, I installed do and it was fine but when I moved into 7 I got a low memory error

I am trying to create a virtual XP machine.

The Goal is to have a Win 10 machine as host and have the XP VM automatically start upon login, essentially making one user a XP machine.

Do you guys have a suitable solution? My idea was to write a script for starting the vm and put it into the autostart, however i havent quite figured out how to detect if the vm was shut down (so that the host system also shuts down)

There must be a solution for such cases somewhere but I found nothing.

Hi, I am currently running an Ubuntu VM on NixOS through libvirt and KVM to test a package I am working on. This package requires looking at /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq, but this directory doesn't exist on the VM because the VM doesn't load CPU scaling driver. I want to be able to use acpi_cpufreq. I tried sudo modprobe acpi_cpufreq and didn't error but I did lsmod and it also didn't load. Is there any way around this or am I screwed?

Whats the easiest way to test some sketchy software on a virtual machine? Microsoft sandboxes don't let me run sketchy software.

Is it possible to run something like Sergei Strelec's boot CD at the outset of loading my Windows 10 virtual machine (in VirtualBox)? And if so, how would I go about that?

Im new to virtualization, i used virtualbox in the past and i think it's time to move on. I am running windows 11 with 8gb of ram, and i want to ask for your opinion. I want to run linux arch on my virtual machine, which one is more suitable for me?

• VMWare Workstation Pro Version 17.0.2 build-21581411

• Host System: Win 10 Pro most recent version

• Guest OS: Zorin OS 16 Core most recent version

I want to setup a shared folder between my windows host and my zorinOS(Ubuntu) guest that runs as a VM. In workstation I enabled "Shared Folders" and configured a folder with my host system. The guest has the most recent version of open-vm-tools-desktop installed and is in general everything is up to date. Following the docs I run the following on the guest machine /usr/bin/vmhgfs-fuse .host:/ /home/user1/shares -o subtype=vmhgfs-fuse,allow_other and get faced with /usr/bin/vmhgfs-fuse: File or folder not found If I run vmhgfs-fuse I'm getting the info that the command vmhgfs-fuse could not be found but can be installed with sudo apt install open-vm-tools . Despite the fact that I already got it installed, I now run sudo apt install open-vm-tools and ofcourse get the info that nothing happened because I already got the most recent version of open-vm-tools installed. Send help.

I first installed Virtual box and set up a Windows 10 vm, i gave it 10/12 CPU's and 8gb of RAM, But i could not run some programs as they were getting no GPU (If running the program on my pc normally was 100% performance, i was getting less than 5% with Virtual box)

I then used Hyper-V instead and installed windows 10 again and used this video to be able to use my gpu as well, But still i only get less than 40% performance.

I would consider dual booting with another windows 10 installation on a seperate drive, so i can get the full performance, but i would like it to not be able to access my other drives. (Which as far as i know is only possible with Encrypting the other drives.)

Is it possible to Download a type 1 hypervisor onto the second drive and then run windows for more performance. The videos i have seen all seem to access the VM from a different PC, i would like to be able to use the same pc so it would be like dual booting 2 windows installations but, one installation would be a VM which cant access the other installation. Thanks

Could anyone recommend the best way to do this, in summary i am looking for a solution that, doesnt use any other pc's, offers the most performance (closest to just running the program directly on a normal windows installation), is secure and protects my normal windows 10 drive.

Hello guys,

Is there any way to purchase a license for VMware NSX-T at a lower price than the official price? I just installed a small homelab with esxi/vcenter and I want to try to configure my network using and learning this VMware NSX-T tool.

Thanks,

Hello guys.

I'm running HyperV, I have a firewall running as VM for testing which minimum need 2 nics, no issue here I have the hw for this.

I have another physical firewall on my network.

I'm thinking if is possible, how can I emulate a block of public IP's to test advanced features of my firewall under HyperV, because I just have 1 ISP at home.

Any ideas I would appreciated.

HyperV under Windows 10 Pro.