Is ROCK only for NUCs or can it be installed on a PC server?

[David_Yohn]

I’ve read through the FAQ and looked around but I can’t find a direct answer so here goes: is ROCK only for NUCs or can it be installed on a PC server?

[Ratbert]

AFAIK It is designed and supported on a NUC, others have installed it on other types of pc but you are unsupported, search the forum for ‘mock’

[CrystalGipsy (Resisting the flow!)]

No issues with my mock. As long as it’s fairly modern intel based motherboard I think you’ll be ok, some of the latest ones have network card issues as too new so no drivers but you can install a usb to ethernet to get around it. Mines a 4th gen i3 based none nuc based system .

[David_Yohn]

Thank you both for the replies.

[xxx (Banned - toxicity)]

is ROCK only for NUCs or can it be installed on a PC server?

ROCK is an OS in itself, so by this, do you mean in a VM?

If so, then -

Converted to ROCK

For the last two years I have been running Roon server on a Ubuntu virtual machine on one of my dual Xeon servers. I have the advantage to work as a software engineer for one o the main software companies and have a fairly significant data center setup as a home lab. When Rock was released I started by setting it up to run as a VM. That was actually quite difficult to do properly but I finally made it work Running ROCK as a VM had one advantage and that is that I could verify that…

[David_Yohn]

Thank you. I was thinking more about using ROCK as the OS on a purpose built PC with a standard motherboard.