Dwaine Maggart wrote:Correct that you can't normally run the actual Resolve app in a VM, as most VM environments don't provide direct access to the GPU hardware, which the Resolve app requires. That said, I've seen reported that there is a higher end VMWare option that can provide direct GPU access, and people claim to have made Resolve run in that scenario. That's not something we can assist with.
fyi
I have Resolve Studio running fine in a OSX Sierra VM (qemu base) on a dual xeon UNRAID host. It allows easy PCIE passthru, which i used to passthru an NVIDIA GPU and a 10GB ethernet card as well as several SSD's (native)
Use it as background render node or just as second workstation if 1st is bussy.
Unraid is stellar in allowing (next to its base functions as storage vault) hardware passthru and granting near native (almost undistinguishable) performance. Has great docker functions as well.
For DB's as mentioned by others you dont need any GUI / monitor and can run in any flavor of OS, hardware or VM without any issues.
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Test Rig : 2xXeon (24c) | UNRAID KVM OSX VM's | 128GB | 5700XT | 40Gbe
Prod Rig : i9-7940X (14c) | OSX 10.15 | 64GB | 2xVega 56 | 40Gbe | Tb3 | V:Eizo | A:5.1RME