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It would be fantastic for PCI passthrough to allow the VM to directly access GPU and hardware resources.
please bring support for more installation image formats like raw vm images.vdi, .qcow2, .ova withought having to convert to .iso. thank you team.
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I second this. At least qcow2 would be great to be supported.
Just got my ZimaCube so I’ve not used it a lot yet, but it looks like the creation process expects an ISO installation file. I think there are a fair amount of VM “appliances” out there that don’t have an installation process, but rather a qcow2 file (or the package VMware uses) that lets you drop it in, boot up, and the appliance is active. I have one in particular that uses qcow2 format that I would like to run. (I’ve been able to run it on QNAP and UnRaid.)
It would be nice to be able to install Home Assistant OS in zvm.
Currently I can’t, because they don’t provide an iso to install, only an image with the OS pre-installed…
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I second that. At this point ZVM only let you use iso images. Not even img, which HAOS has.
Hi,
First off, I just want to say a huge thank you for the incredible work on Zima OS !
I’m currently running it on a DIY NAS built from an old gaming rig (Ryzen 8c/16t CPU and RTX 2070), and it’s been smooth overall.
That said, I’ve hit a snag with virtual machines. I tried setting up two VMs (using ZVM) :
- One Windows 11
- One intended to be a headless SteamOS gaming VM
In both cases, it seems like the GPU isn’t being utilized at all. From what I understand, Zima OS doesn’t support PCI passthrough at the moment, but even without that, I was expecting at least basic GPU acceleration for the Windows VM. But performance was sluggish, and it seams the CPU was handling all the graphics rendering.
I’m wondering if I may have missed a setting. Either in the VM configuration or somewhere else in the desktop environment. Has anyone successfully enabled GPU acceleration in their VMs, or is this a current limitation of ZVM?
If direct passthrough isn’t possible yet, are there recommended workarounds, maybe using a different VM manager on top of Zima OS, or another method to enable GPU access for better performance? Or any other ideas for one of the two VM I mentioned.
Thanks again for building such an impressive OS, really appreciate all the hard work going into it!
Cant seem to figure out how to make sure my debian server vm boots automatically after reboot. Would be nice to be able to toggle that option on or off per vm
