Re:Intel N100 Radxa X4 First Thoughts
by darkteflon on Saturday July 27, 2024 @11:25PM
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Slightly OT but Proxmox is something else I see is suddenly everywhere - is it only for a container-based homelab setup, or do people also run a full desktop distro like Debian or Fedora as one of the VMs? Since GPU passthrough is supported, seems like a nice neat way to have your cake and eat it too. In which case I might splurge on an N305 with a bit more RAM and migrate Plex and other containers (currently on an always-on M1 which is supposed to be my workstation), plus the Tailscale exit node (currently on an RPi4) to the same machine the kid uses as his DE.
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This may help, and you may be surprised at how well an N100 can run Plex. https://www.doscher.com/gpu-passthrough-for-intel/
It's not a container-only distro, that's secondary, it's more like VMware Esxi, does VMs, too, but with extra bits (like ceph). It's good stuff, try it.
Yep. Been running it for a few years, am very happy with it - https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2023/12/17/2000
Re:Intel N100 Radxa X4 First Thoughts
by ThatMedicIsASpy on Sunday July 28, 2024 @03:27PM
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I've rebuilt my PC for Proxmox. 7950X3D, X670E, 96G, 18TBx4.
I run TrueNAS with my storage. Give a GPU to a main system (Bazzite/Fedora/NixOS). Distro hopping is one VM away.
I don't run Windows guests.
Re:Intel N100 Radxa X4 First Thoughts
by bornfreddy on Monday July 29, 2024 @04:33AM
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Nice machine, was looking at something similar but never pulled the trigger because of (possible) long boot times. Any problems with that?
Re:Intel N100 Radxa X4 First Thoughts
by ThatMedicIsASpy on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @05:15AM
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The only long boot times I have is for memory training and that happens once when you change it on any am5.
Always look at what people say about a motherboards IOMMU groups.
On mine I can pcie passthrough 4 of the 8 SATA ports for TrueNAS