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Yes, I use it as a standard desktop and games also work great! One limitation I've found is that only one PCIe GPU can really be passed through in ESXi. If you have more than one, ESXi will refuse to boot the VMs. All potential workarounds I've found cause the board to not boot ESXi at all. This...

Also running ESXi 6.0U2 on a S2600CP with a Radeon 7870 passed through, works great!

Try leaving out the audio device when passing through to the VM if you don't use HDMI audio

I got my new hardware in, and it simply worked by installing the Crimson driver (not even in safe mode). R7 240 and 7870 working fine in Windows 10. However, I also ran into the issue where the host would reboot (not even a PSOD) when the VM was shut down. It *seems* to be resolved for me by...

Haha thanks, sorry if I came off as sarcastic, that was not my intention :) I'm trying passthrough with several Radeon GPUs right now, but I keep blue screening whenever the monitor is plugged in. I haven't tried installing the drivers in safe mode though, I'll try that next

Do you know how you got it working or did it really just magically start working that one night after you went to bed?

You don't need to enter any keys when installing the Horizon Agent on the VMs, and the Horizon Clients are free to download.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe you can install the vSGA VIB, then in the guest OS install the Horizon Agent AND the Direct Connect package, so you can skip over the Horizon broker (which is the bit that needs a license key). Then you can use the regular Horizon clients to access...

I tried to virtualize my HTPC/workstation like this back in 2013 with little success. Ironically, I got it to work more or less with a Mac OS X VM, but there were major stability issues and I gave up. I went down the USB video card route as well and the DisplayLink drivers for some reason still...

The guide data can actually stop at any time now, but since Microsoft last year made the effort to switch the guide data to Rovi (which also feeds the Xbox One guide), I assume the guide data will last for a few more years. One issue is that the Rovi guide data quality may be missing/incomplete...

They're usually pretty good at resolving issues when they talk to the cable company themselves. I had an issue with Charter where trying to get it fixed myself was a complete dead end with the phone and office people, but Ceton was able to use their inside contacts to fix the issue pretty quickly.

The internal PCIe Ceton tuners work fine, but if you want network tuners, the Prime generally seems to have fewer issues. I have the networked Ceton and it's solid for me but others seem to have issues.

VirtuallyGhetto has a lot of information on running ESXi on the Mini/Mac Pro: http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/apple

There is a mechanism called "mcupdate" that updates TV guide listings (and runs daily or so). Through mcupdate is how they're going to remove Netflix (and also how they added the warning). Updates pushed through mcupdate is also how they removed the "Internet TV channels" and the "Sports Strip"...

I've used FlexRAID (both tRAID and RAID-F) and SnapRAID + DrivePool, and FlexRAID RAID-F works (successfully recovered failed drives) and was reliable (no crashes or memory issues), but I kept getting weird messages in the logs that the developer never really explained to me when I asked on the...