VM Engine (KVM)

For support configuring your own virtual machines, including assigning PCI/USB devices (such as graphics, sound, networking, etc.), and other tuning tweaks.

6072 topics in this forum

  1. Performance Improvements in VMs by adjusting CPU pinning and assignment 1 2 3 4 13

    By dlandon,
    • 323 replies
    • 321.8k views

  2. VM FAQ

    By RobJ,
    • 20 replies
    • 81.5k views

  3. Intel IGD (integrated graphics) Pass Through Support - March 2016 Update 1 2 3 4 7

    By jonp,
    • 153 replies
    • 194.4k views

  4. VM USB Passthrough Multiple Devices with the same Vendor/Product 1 2

    By kingfetty,
    • 33 replies
    • 53.4k views

  5. Simpler / Easier PCI Device Pass Through for NON-GPUs 1 2 3 4 5

    By jonp,
    • 102 replies
    • 136.3k views

  6. Hardware recommendations for unRAID servers with VM's 1 2

    By RobJ,
    • 28 replies
    • 64.5k views

  7. ***GUIDE*** Passing Through Network Controllers to unRAID 6 Virtual Machines

    Topic was moved to forum VMs

  8. ***GUIDE*** Passthrough Entire PCI USB Controller

    Topic was moved to forum VMs

  9. FAQ Feedback - for VM FAQ 1 2

    By RobJ,
    • 30 replies
    • 42.1k views

  10. Yet another no output GPU

    By Azarog,
    • 4 replies
    • 61 views

  11. Problems with Big Sur (macinabox) VM and Intel i210 network card after upgrading to 11.4

    By IronRooster,
    • 16 replies
    • 844 views

  12. Windows 10 VM - AMD APU (5600g) Passthrough / VBIOS Dump

    By happy1,
    • 0 replies
    • 49 views

  13. ** Hackintosh ** Tips to make a bare metal MacOS 1 2 3 4 37

    By Leoyzen,
    • 908 replies
    • 126.8k views

  14. Controlling video card from GUI/terminal ?

    By willer2k,
    • 3 replies
    • 100 views

  15. Proxmox Replication/Backups

    By Scyll,
    • 0 replies
    • 65 views

  16. High Stuttering in Windows VM Game, and none in Bare metal

    By sonuyos,
    • 2 replies
    • 74 views

  17. X11SPM - breaking up USB ports within IOMMU group

    By NickG,
    • 3 replies
    • 194 views

  18. Creating Win10 VM with existing Win10 boot

    By Happytodd,
    • 1 reply
    • 62 views

  19. Windows 10 VM

    By ashman70,
    • 8 replies
    • 219 views

  20. Windows 11 System Requirements Announced - does it pose any issues? 1 2

    By Mantene,
    • 31 replies
    • 4.2k views

  21. [SOLVED] code 43 win 10 nvidia gpu passthrough

    By uek2wooF,
    • 3 replies
    • 507 views

  22. VNC Virtual GPU - any way to improve resolution?

    By testdasi,
    • 14 replies
    • 19.9k views

  23. How do I pass local ports other than PCIe and USB through a Win10VM? like Serial, LPT, or Wi-Fi...

    By chomp,
    • 0 replies
    • 53 views

  24. Another Windows 11 VM TPM question

    By BeardedNoir,
    • 2 replies
    • 123 views

  25. VM keeps crashing then requires Unraid reboot to get VM working again.

    By JKunraid,
    • 0 replies
    • 80 views

  26. Nvidia GTX 1070 Ti pass-through on 6.9.2 & 6.10.0-rc1 to Windows not working

    By Letoh,
    • 1 reply
    • 82 views

  27. Trying to install win 7 PE lite on KVM Qemu but it goes straight to "press esc in 4 sec to skip startup.nsh or any other key to continue."

    By faisalahmadkhan,
    • 6 replies
    • 116 views

  28. [Solved] pfSense VM do not recognize virtio network interface (e1000/vmxnet3 is marked down)

    By samba_69,
    • 16 replies
    • 529 views

  29. Passing thru iGPU on I7-11700K to windows VM, is this possible ?

    By VeeTECH,
    • 0 replies
    • 64 views

  30. Installed Docker for Windows on Win10 VM and now performance is horrible?

    By Fffrank,
    • 0 replies
    • 63 views

  31. Passthrough & VBios Dump Trouble

    By Resistor,
    • 1 reply
    • 92 views

  32. Guest has not initialised the display (yet)

    By keepitshut,
    • 14 replies
    • 36.7k views

  33. Assistance with mouse not working - inherited unRAID server running MACOS

    By Joshua65,
    • 0 replies
    • 73 views

  34. What version of OVMF do we have in unraid 6.9.2 - 6.10 RC1?

    By ghost82,
    • 0 replies
    • 68 views

  35. Can't get GPU Passthrough working (Black screen / 1 core pegged at 100%))

    By happyb0i,
    • 3 replies
    • 491 views

  36. Virtualizing Windows 11 and TPM 2.0 requirement

    By ashman70,
    • 10 replies
    • 476 views

  37. Has anyone tired Flings VMware Optimization on Windows OS

    By TCMapes,
    • 0 replies
    • 84 views

  38. anyone still using GTX 580

    By tola5,
    • 3 replies
    • 131 views

  39. SWTPM support

    By rezo,
    • 3 replies
    • 586 views

  40. How to allow VM access to client usb port

    By Ira,
    • 1 reply
    • 105 views

  41. Ryzen 5700g apu passthrough

    By netpilot242,
    • 1 reply
    • 224 views

  42. Intel 9th Gen iGPU passthrough to Windows VM

    By techman2005,
    • 0 replies
    • 89 views

  43. unsupported configuration: Emulator '/usr/local/sbin/qemu' does not support virt type 'kvm'

    By santiman717,
    • 5 replies
    • 3.4k views

  44. Primary GPU with Passthru

    By TCMapes,
    • 8 replies
    • 186 views

  45. Any VM creation is ending up with this

    By ref1ux,
    • 6 replies
    • 190 views

  46. Windows VM using max memory on start (only 1G or so free)

    By Econaut,
    • 4 replies
    • 125 views

  47. Onboard Microphone is not working in VM

    By genie4all,
    • 0 replies
    • 74 views

  48. Win10 VM not working after 6.9.2

    By damnshaneisthatu,
    • 22 replies
    • 886 views

  49. Fresh Windows Gaming VM crashing after starting games

    By itz4blitz,
    • 2 replies
    • 155 views

  50. how do you dump vbios of onboard video card for a VM

    By comet424,
    • 0 replies
    • 72 views