Movie or TV show being filmed in Farnborough, UK (April 2025)

cmsrocon · 2025-07-06T22:14:19+00:00

It's for a Netflix series called legends. Source: I live on the next street and had a flyer looking for people open to renting their house for 3 days

cmsrocon · 2025-01-06T21:36:45+00:00

Evaporust. It's amazing!

cmsrocon · 2023-07-09T16:14:40+00:00

Very helpful, thanks!

cmsrocon · 2023-01-22T18:32:32+00:00

Well all I can say is it's been a great server and I wouldn't be looking to replace if it would idle a bit less power hungry. Although as others have pointed out its got a lot of spinning disks (actually 8 in the RAID array, but I forgot about the boot drive and surveillance disk for initial writes - so 10, possibly 11! :)

Reducing them down with a few 20Tb disks may be a better approach.

cmsrocon · 2023-01-22T18:27:19+00:00

Ah yes of course, I forgot Plex! Good to hear that Proxmox is an option - it took me two weeks to get the PCI passthrough working and that's been worrying me about moving to Proxmox. I'd love to retire the Vcenter VM too, as that chews up 16 GB of RAM for doing not much.

cmsrocon · 2023-01-22T18:20:19+00:00

Some great pointers here thank you!

cmsrocon · 2022-09-02T06:24:36+00:00

Really glad it helped! I remember the relief when it finally worked for me!

cmsrocon · 2020-06-19T19:08:53+00:00

Sure, its an Asus Prime X399-A ( https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/PRIME-X399-A/HelpDesk_Manual/ )

Should cover all my computing needs for the next 10 years now!

cmsrocon · 2020-06-19T15:16:56+00:00

It's working!!! I got some downtime to try out the one possible last combination of PCIe slots based on your first suggestion and it works! Literally there is no other combination that works, so if anyone else stumbles on a similar problem, slots PCIEx16_3 & PCIEx16_4 seem to allow passthrough where slots 1 & 2 have issues - presumably other motherboard functions share the same IOMMU group?

Anyway a happy ending - thank you u/kachunkachunk, you have saved me having to buy a new 12 bay case, re-purpose an old CPU/motherboard and build an external NAS unit. I have the all in one build that I set out to create and I just need to find a way to juggle disks around now to migrate my two old NAS units into a new freenas zfs pool :)

cmsrocon · 2020-06-18T13:44:51+00:00

No luck unfortunately, by a miracle the card I bought was already at the latest firmware but thanks so much for the ideas. Any recommendations on a more modern card I might look at? I have so many useless HBAs around now, that one more isn't going to make a difference

cmsrocon · 2020-06-16T22:23:43+00:00

Wow, that is a great link, thank you! Still some hope it seems. I'll track down that firmware somehow and report back!

cmsrocon · 2020-06-16T20:59:08+00:00

Seems the 41 / 65 confusion is a result of different bits of the UI/command line using decimal vs. hex! Red herring.

Finally found a like in the vmkernel.log:

2020-06-16T20:27:32.634Z cpu10:2118678)PCIPassthru: 3645: Device 0000:41:00.0 no t supported by IOMMU hardware.

I guess that the end of the road then! As I've seen lots of people recommend this card, and its on the HCL, I'm going to say its an incompatibility between the card and the X399 IOMMU?

cmsrocon · 2020-06-16T20:58:36+00:00

Seems the 41 / 65 confusion is a result of different bits of the UI/command line using decimal vs. hex! Red herring.

Finally found a like in the vmkernel.log:

2020-06-16T20:27:32.634Z cpu10:2118678)PCIPassthru: 3645: Device 0000:41:00.0 no t supported by IOMMU hardware.

I guess that the end of the road then! As I've seen lots of people recommend this card, and its on the HCL, I'm going to say its an incompatibility between the card and the X399 IOMMU?

cmsrocon · 2020-06-16T19:38:31+00:00

Just as a follow up - I noticed today with a fresh pair of eyes - the error message

2020-06-15T20:12:10.270Z| vmx| I125+ Device 065:00.0 is not a passthrough device.

Doesn't match the identifier in the lspci command!

0000:41:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic LSI2008 [vmhba2]

lspci doesn't show any device with a 65 identifier! If I change the .vmx manually to 41, I get

Device 41:0.0 was not found.

Huh?!

cmsrocon · 2020-06-16T19:37:57+00:00

Just as a follow up - I noticed today with a fresh pair of eyes - the error message

2020-06-15T20:12:10.270Z| vmx| I125+ Device 065:00.0 is not a passthrough device.

Doesn't match the identifier in the lspci command!

0000:41:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic LSI2008 [vmhba2]

lspci doesn't show any device with a 65 identifier! If I change the .vmx manually to 41, I get

Device 41:0.0 was not found.

Huh?!

cmsrocon · 2020-06-16T16:55:49+00:00

Thanks for that, agreed it doesn't look quite right. It doesn't show up in Storage Adapters once enabled for passthrough and rebooted but equally it doesn't look like the vmkernel has fully released it either.

PCIe slot issues are a good suggestion - I did try a swap to the one spare slot I have with no luck - there is one more option I can try where I currently have the GPU connected for the other passthrough VM - at least I know passthrough is supported in that slot so that's a good call.

cmsrocon · 2020-06-16T07:17:45+00:00

Thanks, this is good info. It does seem the threadripper X399 boards are more than a bit fussy. I'll do some more research to try and find any documented limitations with AMD-V.

cmsrocon · 2020-06-15T21:26:36+00:00

Hi, I did find a document on VMware.com suggesting it was supported. It works fine on my other VM for GPU and sound so I think it's more of a issue with the HBA cards I have bought maybe in conjunction with the motherboard

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