[Win10 stop/restart from UNRAID VM Controls drop dont work]

On 2/16/2020 at 10:42 PM, testdasi said:

Power & Sleep -> Additional power settings -> Choose what the power buttons do

 

Had that issue with alot of VMs ,

i mostly made WIN VMS , win7 win10 , server etc

some i created from a scratch some from vdisks etc

and none of them worked properly from the GUI when pressed stop restart , except force stop which worked.

 

So today when i finally got to the point when i want to setup a reliable VM backup, and make the VM backup script to work properly , i stumbled upon this post.

 

My settings were proper tho , when pressing power button > shut down.

so i changed the option to whatever , then back to shutdown , and now it works.

 

TLDR - windows and its features

[issues making imported WINDOWS 10 to work as VMs (Solved)]

Hi ppl,

The issue here is that i cant make the imported WIN10 OS to work as VM

the OS was originally installed on 2 SSDs which were configured as Raid 1 , i then used Disk2VHD

(https://www.veeam.com/blog/how-to-convert-physical-machine-hyper-v-virtual-machine-disk2vhd.html)

to make a image of the OS, then i used qemu-img to convert the image to qcow2

 

now i need to make it work, ive tried OVMF Bios with i440, changing manually to qcow2 name and location.

it goes to shell , and if i exit the shell and try boot options none of them seem to boot.

 

tried to create a VM with auto disk with seabios and q35 5.1 with qcow type, then manually change the disk to qcow2 name and location

screen attached

 

please enlighten me on how to proceed.

 

also tried to add the driver via cmd , still cant see C drive to boot

[Added new SSD as unassigned device, format option is greyed out]

Thanks for the answer btw , looked through several posts , most of them being written by smart-asses who aren't for some reason interested in helping , instead teaching you to use search feature and waste their , and my time

[Windows VM restore from a snapshot possibility in unraid]

On 5/25/2021 at 9:48 AM, JorgeB said:

I can point you to the user scripts plugin thread, there are some examples there, but you'll need to adapt the scripts to your needs, google is another good place to start.

Thanks!

 

i did some digging and it works,

at first i did it manually with script , then found automatic plugin, now i dont know if we need to close this thread and open another one, since i do have another question regarding my whole setup and if its even optimal or can i ask stuff here?

[Upgrading server - Looking for feedback on plan]

On 5/20/2021 at 5:00 PM, aarontry said:

I have a X10DRi with 2 Xeon E5-2680v4 and 128GB ECC DDR4 ( 4 x 32GB). I have 2 DIMMs per socket and they are fast enough in dual channel mode for most of the work (a bunch of Windows Server VMs and Ubuntu for software development and testing). For NUMA and memory configuration you can take a look at this article: https://frankdenneman.nl/2016/07/13/numa-deep-dive-4-local-memory-optimization/

 

Recently I purchased an used 10Gbps NIC (Supermicro AOC-STG-i2T) and I am passing through the two ports for the VMs.

 

is it stable if u dont restart the VMs manually? and in general how is the stability of it?

also would you say that ECC is a must for VMs that would be running for days?

[Unraid VM server for hosting 3 VMs for intermediate browsing(hardware choice)]

The final goal is to have a system with 3 VMs hosted, to have snapshots of it every week or so, along with daily backups to the backup drives.

3 WIN10 VMs will be accessed remotely couple hours a day with some basic tasks

(called it intermediate browsing just because its not basic but its nothing complicated as well, stuff like office etc)

will run a VPN on unraid for remote access in case of need.

Worth mentioning that i dont intend to touch the server like ideally never but i do understand that from time to time need to check on it but would like the time between the checks be as long as possible (6 months maybe?) granted that VMs wont be getting updates on the regular basis anyways

 

now the question is which hardware should i opt for?

 

CPU - i thought of at-least 2 cores 4 threads for each machine something like 9900 , which would leave 2 more cores for unraid OS itself

i dont mind going AMD, but never had any real expirience with VMs on amd so dont know if its a good idea.

Mobo - doesn't really matter as long as it has 2 NVME slots on it for VM cache drives and fast storage cache.

some 3/1GBps NVMEs and couple SSDs for backup pulls from local PCs on the network daily (there's like 2-5MB incremental daily backups)

RAM - 16GB per machine, and like 4 or 8 for the unraid itself (don't know how much it actually needs)

another big question , should i opt for ECC memory? and change the build completely? or is regular DDR4 RAM fine? (there will be UPS incase of power failures)

 

case doesn't matter that much i guess.

Please enlighten and any suggestions are welcome.

 

[Windows VM restore from a snapshot possibility in unraid]

9 hours ago, JorgeB said:

You could use the user scripts plugin.

 

Please guide me to where i can learn about different scripts i can run , or about common practices so i can start testing and see if what i want to achieve is actually possible

[Windows VM restore from a snapshot possibility in unraid]

  

29 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

or with a script, more info here:

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/51703-vm-faq/?do=findComment&comment=523800

 

Thank you for the info!

now i am a total newb to the scripting part , especially if its linux ,

what and where would i even run a script to automatically create FULL snapshot and not incremental every lets say week?

i assume that is all i would actually need, then in case i need to restore a snapshot id just replace the Vdisk in the running path with the Vdisk from the backup path right>?

[Windows VM restore from a snapshot possibility in unraid]

Hi people,

 

i have a number of Unraid systems now and really happy with them but i've been only using them as NAS basically.

Hardware differs, but i usually use duckdns docker for VPN access with open VPN docker.

Now i started to explore VM options, and would like to know how to setup snapshots of VMs.

Basically what i want to achieve is number of Windows 10(it shouldn't matter tho) VM machines. that would make a snapshot every month or so.

and in case its needed ability to restore the snapshots remotely via Unraid without the need to physically be there.

is it possible to do using unraid? if so please enlighten me, more details the better.