Help - Unraid for NAS and main PC duties

[Bluecube]

I've been reading with interest about the use of an Unraid setup to serve as both a NAS and for main PC duties.

Currently I run a Hackintosh and a server with Windows 2012 Server. The server runs two Hyper V VMs as required, Plex Server, Couchpotato and Sonarr. It contains five 2Tb hard drives run together using Stablebit Drivepool. These drives contain backups, video, music and various bits and bobs.

My new server will be running a E5 2650 octacore CPU on an Asus Rampage IV Formula motherboard with 16Gb memory. So hardware wise I think I'll be fine providing it all works as I haven't built it yet!

From a software perspective, I'm going to run Unraid with various Dockers for Plex, etc. What I'm a smidgin concerned about is the running of the VMs specifically that of MacOS which will be my main OS. Is it a major issue to pass through a graphics card, mouse and keyboard? And will the VM wake from sleep and display the login on my monitor when I press a button on the keyboard/ mouse?

Is there anything else that I've missed that may trip me up?

TIA

 

[Bluecube]

From what I've read you can pass through the GPU and any other hardware you want to a VM. UnRAID is a headless install from what I can gather so no connected hardware is necessary to use it. So if GPU/ USB passthrough to the VM works OK (or not) then no KVM is necessary.

 

[Bluecube]

USB hot plugging won't be an issue for me as it's just not something I utilise but it's good to know about the problem just in case!