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I’ve been running that setup as my main workstation for over 3 years. Use an nVidia gpu and a dedicated usb card for IO. You also need a second machine to do esx management, I have a laptop. And a second video card to see the esx console (handy when it isn’t working). Finally don’t use multiple drives for esx datastores, there is no way to remove them later (to upgrade or replace failed drives). I learnt the hard way, transferring 6TB of vms over usb 2 is not fun.


Cool! Do you perchance have a writeup of your setup?

I managed to get a High Sierra VM converted to Mojave yesterday. Previous attempts had been failing due to the VM not being APFS. This link was helpful: https://licson.net/post/vmware-apfs/

I started musing if trying to get an eGPU to work with a Mac VM would be possible but that might be pushing it too far. It looks like Thunderbolt 3 support might be hit or miss from what I've been able to find so far plus I do not see a lot of motherboards (Z390?) that are TB capable. Gigabyte just announced a Z390 based Designare which looked interesting. https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/gigabyte-launches-their-al...

Current plans are:

  * ESXI 6.5 or 6.7
  * 10G NIC
  * 32 or 64GB mem
  * mATX footprint
  * USB switch to control which machine keyboard/mouse goes to
  * MacOS VM with iGPU passthrough
  * Win VM with Nvidia GPU passthrough for gaming
I'm hoping this allows for my dream of having two machines in one without having to dual boot.

On a related note, I'm still annoyed that there does not seem to be a wealth of consumer MBs that have onboard 10G


I'm about to try qemu/kvm for a virtualized macOS solution. I have a 1050ti as my primary GPU on Linux (arguably a bad choice).

What card do you recommend for GPU passthrough?


It is a very positive, strong ethical position to take. I doubt that I would have had the fortitude to react in the same way as the GP. Coasting with the company while finding a new job shows an ethical attitude which is similar to the company itself.


I don't think there's anything wrong with staying at a company while looking for a new job. Do you disagree, or is it specifically the mention of "coasting" that's objectionable?

I.e. it's possible to continue to do your job within normal parameters while still looking for the next thing. Defining this as ethically dubious gives too much power to employers, IMHO.


And in fact, "coasting" was a normal parameter at that particular job.


Are you using chrome? I ran into the same issue (wouldn't respect audio settings) plus it burned 100% cup on all four cores and the audio kept breaking up. It turns out that IE 10 is good for something! Not only do the hangout plugin audio settings work but the sound itself works (no more disrupted streams) and cpu hangs out around 50% across 4 cores. Much better!


Yep. Using Chrome. I don't see the high CPU or the audio issues aside from respecting the settings though. Maybe I should give the other browsers a try! Thx!


The ruby plugin is available on the netbeans plugin site, http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/38549/ruby-and-rails , it has not been verified for 7.0 yet, but it does install. Once its verified I guess it will show up in the plugin manager.


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