Aurora R6 BIOS Primary Display Adapter option

Multi Display is not an option with this system.  Inserting a card into the video X16 slot Disables onboard.

Aurora-R6 and VM.

I think you might be first to ask about this.

It is good to see BIOS options for enabling CPU support VM, as well as the better/newer "VT for Direct I/O" ... so us Aurora-R6 owners "have that going for us".

Yeah, (as your admit) that screen-shot is from a totally different machine.
 
I also have an Aurora-R6 with Nvidia GTX-1070. The on-board DisplayPort (for the Intel IGP) was not covered-up so I assumed it worked. Have you tried connecting a second monitor to it and see if it works or not?

 
Since "Intel HD-Graphics 630" is also present in Device Manager, I figured it was usable. Seems like if you wanted to disable it, you would do it there (in Windows). With a UEFI system, wouldn't a BIOS option be redundant?

I'm looking into using unRAID on my computer

I've heard of it, but never done it.
 
However, if you are trying to setup a NAS (like my Synology) and plan to do anything else half-way serious with Aurora-R6 (concurrently) ... I think I would dedicate a separate computer for unRAID use. Or, just use Aurora-R6 exclusively for that (although, seems like a waste of nice hardware if you ask me).
 

Don't users usually setup unRAID on more basic computers, drop some drives in there, put a UPS on it, and put it in a closet (to run 24/7/365 and not messed with)?  

Multi Display is not an option with this system. Inserting a card into the video X16 slot Disables onboard.

Hmmm, I suspected this was the case.

Aurora-R6 and VM.

I think you might be first to ask about this.

Yeah, I realise it is not a very common scenario.

Have you tried connecting a second monitor to it and see if it works or not?

Since "Intel HD-Graphics 630" is also present in Device Manager, I figured it was usable.

I have tried connecting my monitor to the onboard video output, but as speedstep pointed out it seems that having a dGPU inserted disables the onboard. Connecting a second monitor to the onboard video output might or might not work in Windows, but this is not what I was trying to achieve; setting the iGPU as the primary display adapter for unRAID.

However, if you are trying to setup a NAS ...

(although, seems like a waste of nice hardware if you ask me)

I was not planning to use it as a NAS, I'm mainly interested in the virtualisation features of unRAID. Which would allow me to easily run multiple operating systems (non concurrently, or maybe even concurrently if I were two add a second dGPU) on my PC.

After searching the web and some testing in unRAID I found out it is still possible to passthrough the dGPU to a guestOS by supplying a dump of the dGPU's VBIOS to the hypervisor. Right now I have installed 3 guest OSs (windows 10, a linux distro and another OS), windows 10 seems to run perfectly fine, the other two still have some minor problems. I will continue working on it today and do some tests to check the performance impact compared to native Windows 10 (which I still have installed on the M.2 ssd).

Thanks for the quick reactions.

This was my first post/question in the Alienware Forums so I didn't know what to expect.

poeh wrote:

I was not planning to use it as a NAS, I'm mainly interested in the virtualisation features of unRAID. Which would allow me to easily run multiple operating systems (non concurrently, or maybe even concurrently if I were two add a second dGPU) on my PC.

 

Well, when thinking about VM or VT ... is unRAID even a top popular solution?

 https://www.howtogeek.com/196060/beginner-geek-how-to-create-and-use-virtual-machines/

And the last time I setup a VM (in other VT solution), there was no requirement to have individual video cards. IIRC, it was "virtualized" like the rest of the machine. Not saying you are doing any thing wrong, I'm just curious why you picked unRaid-VM over the others.

I am also very interested in doing this? Has anybody been able to select the integrated Intel graphics card as the primary card? Any good way to do this other than to remove the NVIDIA card?

Can Dell add this option to the BIOS? This seems to be a very standard setting present in the BIOS of other companies.