ElectronicsWizardry

I have been using some gpu passthrough for some time in ovirt with windows guests for some time and it works fine, but now I want to use linux as the guest system.

I have tried many distros(debian, ubuntu, fedora, opensuse) and all of them will report the gpu in lspci, but none will show anything on the display. When installing the nvidia drivers, Xorg refuses to use gpu(7300gt in my case). Debian shows text on the gpu when there is no drivers or Xorg installed.

I was looking this up online and just found unanswered forum posts and was hoping one of you knows how to make this work.

Sorry if this is asked lots

I just graduated from HS and am looking for a job this summer related to computers, computer repair, and networking.I don't know where to start, as most positions ask for experience, which I don't have, but I have worked with lots computers in the past. Im currently in the sf bay area if that helps.

Do you have any tips for getting in at this stage or places to look for jobs?

I currently have a dell poweredge 2950 with 4x2tb wd reds and a small raid 5 of 3x 3tb segate drives that i have being using for backups. Another one of the segates(4 out of the 5 i have bought have had issues now) recently failed and im now looking for a upgrade on the cheap.

Here are the options im considering

-buying a used dell m1000(or if you know something like it tell me) of ebay and and a perc 6e for my 2950 and using it as external storage and filling it with wd red 2tb. PROs- about 200-300, cna store 15 drives. CONs- Limited to 2tb drives

-buying a used dell poweredge r510(or simmilar off ebay and using it to store drives. PROs - No 2tb limit, more compute and vm power. CONs abo

When ever a vm is running, or has been running since the last reboot, and i sleep or close the lid the system Will rev its fans to max and then power off after about 10 seconds. No memory dumps are left after the reboot. This happens with both vmware player and virtual box(if you can suggest another vm software thats works im happy too). Ive updated all the drivers and can't seem to find a solution. Any Ideas?

Dell m6600 i7 2720mq, 16gb ddr3, quadro 3000m, latest drivers from nvidia(362 i think) Windows 7 Pro

You said do what ever.

Yep