I’ve also had this idea in the back of my mind…. Curious what people suggest…

This is in proxmox?

How can I tell if my mobo even supports it?

Ok. So they are different?

How do I tell which motherboards support IOMMU?

I can’t find it as a filter or search option on any websites…?

Well, that’s at least part of my problem. I have no idea what it would be called so it’s hard to google. I guess the underlying technology is all ‘IOMMU’, but each motherboard manufacture and Intel and AMD all have other names for it…

I’m trying to pass an HBA through to a VM for a NAS.

A communication disruption can mean only one thing: INVASION!

A communication disruption can mean only one thing: INVASION!

Battery pack accepts incoming USB-C charging. You can apparently daisy chain chargers together with any USB-C battery pack that can output the right power.

I just got an R36S for ~$36 shipped from Alibaba. It’s awesome out of the box, but you can tweak. It’s incredible what it can do at that price.

To son proof it, just grab an image of the SD card before he starts mucking with it. Easy to flash back to a known-good starting point.

You can even back up his customized version when he has it mostly working before he mucks it up again.

Not sci-fi, but The Princess Bride.

I continue pooping in the next stall over.

I’m noodling a plan to do something similar because my synology NAS is running out of space.

But my plan was to have bare metal run proxmox and have xpenology in a proxmox-managed VM.

I’m very much an amateur tinkerer, here, but it’s been my impression that proxmox is a vastly more powerful VM manager than xpenology.

Even in your current setup I’m surprised you don’t have proxmox managing your fedora instance.

I’ve played with proxmox only a little so far, but it seems like it’s purpose-built to be that base-level layer managing everything running on top of it.

Even things like being able to log into each system right in the browser without messing with VNC or some other virtual desktop tool is just baked in.

….but now I wonder if I got the wrong end of the stick here…?

Hoping people who know better than me will weigh in!

Dune over Hyperion all day. But you should really read A Deepness in the Sky. Everyone should.