Merlinjr

I followed your instructions on setting up a VM and then dumping the bios and before I upgraded to a ryzen 2600 I had videocard passthru. I thought maybe it was me dumping the bios wrong and eagerly waded into your newest video. If I run vnc I get a video image. If I use the dumped bios, I get a black screen when I load up splashtop for the VM. I know the bios is right because if it isn't the VM pegs one cpu 100% and never changes. Its like its hanging on initialization. I'm new to this and still on my trial, but if I can't get this working and its been 2 months almost, maybe this isn't for me. I'm open to troubleshooting help I just need to know what to do. Thanks in advance Strangest thing. When I press the ctrl-alt-delete during the black screen it brings up the task manager. I choose logout, then it shows proper screen and I can log in like nothing is wrong. It just isn't showing video until I control alt delete, sign out and sign back in. Second edit. Now when I log in with splashtop to the VM I get a black screen and pressing the ctrl alt delete brings up the task manager but if I logout or sign in with another user I just get a black screen. I can see its working in the background due to certain programs running on startup that affect external conditions, but I'm blind. I hope this is an isolated incident fixed in 6.9 since I'm running 6.8.3

So I have found a couple workarounds for my unraid folding@home issues which I will document. After I finally managed to get the docker working It kept grabbing my cpu as well as my GPU. Didn't matter what I did it would always grab both even with CPU removed. By sheer accident I had removed cpu and then cleared my history and voila. Gpu only mining. Whenever I get a web control error and it doesn't update I simply clear my history from the last hour and the web control works again. An observation under unraid docker is that it uses 100% of one core in the docker and thats just how it works under unraid. I did observe that setting folding@home to a hyperthreaded core only showed no PPD loss leaving the actual core untouched. I have noticed no PPD drops using my 1070 over several days. One final trick if you can get a VM working on your machine with a passedthrough Nvidia card, installing Folding@home through the VM in windows leaves a negligable performance penalty. This is offset by the fact that under windows, you can have a single core system and it still won't use all of the core. If you're using your vm all the time then just install folding@home there and continue on your day. So if you're struggling to get folding, I present a couple options for you. Also of note if you're a crypto miner, you can mine under a VM just fine. Some mining programs don't like virtualization, but those aren't the good ones to use anyways. All tests were run on a ryzen 2600 and 16G of ram with unraid 6.8.3. VM was set up using SpaceInvader Ones tutorial I hope this helps.