jvranish42

You can definitely run another gaming setup through that. Here's what you need to do:

- Follow the instructions in this video for getting a dump of your vbios: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM7ntkiUoPk (you can stop once you've gotten the vbios)

- Make sure your Unraid is updated to at least 6.7

- Read the "New vfio-bind method" section of: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/80001-unraid-os-version-67-a...

- Use the knowledge gained from that to add an IOMMU group assigned to your GT710 to /boot/config/vfio-pci.cfg

- Reboot your Unraid server

- Do the normal gpu passthrough thing for the GT710 for a VM, but add the dumped vbios to the "Graphics ROM BIOS:" field in the VM "edit" gui

Hopefully it should work :D

One thing to keep in mind about the vfio-pci.cfg file is that it's effectively a blacklist, and if you do something that could change your IOMMU group assignments (such as adding or removing a PCI device) you could end up inadvertently blacklisting a PCI device you don't intend to. All you need to do is update the IOMMU groups in vfio-pci.cfg to fix it, but it can freak you out if you're not expecting it.

(For example if I remove one of my GPUs, one of my SATA controllers will inevitably end up getting the IOMMU group that _used_ to belong to a GPU, so it'll get blacklisted, and two of my array drives will appear missing until I update the vfio-pci.cfg to match the new IOMMU groups)

I'm using Unraid, (a linux), which uses kvm for the virtualization. If you're using kvm, you can passthrough your primary GPU by dumping the vbios, and then passing that along when you initiate the passthrough. Passing a custom vbios is pretty easy to do in Unraid, though dumping the vbios is still a manual process. I have do that in my setup because I don't have any spare slots for another GPU, even a tiny one.

Inspired by Linus Tech Tips and bummed that the new threadrippers were out of my budget, I decided to build a 4 gamers 1 CPU box based on a Ryzen 3900X. I used the Ryzen 3900X (12 core) and a x570 Taichi, and then 4 GPUs (in the Nivida 1060 to 1660 range) (I had to use one of these: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07YDH8KW9 to connect my 4th GPU to one of the m.2 slots) My total cost was somewhere in the $2400 range.

I personal think it's a super awesome setup, but it's _definitely not_ for the faint of heart. You have to _really enjoy_ debugging crazy shit for it to be worth it.

But even at my "budget" $2400 range, a $20/month for 4 users of some game streaming service, would buy me about _ten years_ for that price.

The economics of a streaming service are really quite killer.

I'm the author of that post. I could have certainly used promises all the way through, and in some cases that might be the better option.

My example is contrived, but in the larger project that I was working in, almost all of the existing code used callbacks. Refactoring all that code to use promises, just to accommodate the two or three places that actually needed them, probably would not have been worth it.