I'm planning to build a new pc that will be used as 1. a windows pc for browsing/listening to music and 2. a NAS using OMV. My plan is to make this work by using VM's. A host (preferably Linux based) WM's with Windows and OMV.
The setup will be something like:
ASRock J4105-ITX (Intel Quad-Core Processor J4105)
16GB DDR4 SODIMM
PCI-E Sata adapter (4 ports)
256 GB SSD for HOST
2x3TB for Storage for OMV
2x6TB for Backups of data for OMV
2x750GB for Windows VM
Questions:
1. Is it possible to run OMV in a VM and are there disadvantages?
2. Which host OS/distro would you advise to use?
3. Is it possible to have (direct) access to USB connected devices in the VM's? (The Windows PC needs to use an external soundcard/mixer for which there are no Linux drivers)
4. Is it possible to have direct access to the hard drives? Since I know how OMV and Windows work I'd like to partition the disks in OMV/windows itself. If there's a crash I can just swap the disk into another system and recovery my data.
Thanks in forward for all suggestions/help.