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Something I use are these 5.25"chassis designed for CD/DVD Duplicators. Like this one: https://amzn.to/2PH6SDf You could pack that with 3x 5in3 drive cages and have 15 drives in there! Or go for a smaller chassis or old PC case if you need fewer drives.

One thing you don't mention, and worth a try. Are you booting UnRaid in UEFI mode? If yes, try legacy (and vice versa). I found switching from UEFI to Legacy made a lot of issues I was having with AMD graphics passthrough disappear. You can find the setting under Main -> Boot device -> Flash -> Syslinux;

Download IORegistryExplorer and search for your extension by name. If it shows up, it's loaded. Here's me looking for WhateverGreen...

That Sonnet only has 2x controllers though. The old model had 4x, but it's not available anywhere that I can find.

I cant say authoritatively, but I've had problems in the past trying to run 6 cores where 4 and 8 worked. I think it might be based on the SMBIOS machine type you choose (in clover). If the system didn't originally support 6 cores, it can be challenging to get running.

A few pointers. You might have better luck specifying a number of CPUs more commonly found in actual macs, so 4 or 8, not 6. Also, you might be introducing an error in your XML. Try this - same principle, but less scope for mistakes.; 1. Copy your working 2x Core XML to a safe place 2. Make the edit to add 4 or 8 cpus 3. Open the resulting XML and copy the CPU section to a safe place. 4. Paste your 'known working; xml back in. 5. Take the CPU section from step 3 and paste it over the equivalent section in your 'known working' XML 6. Apply & Start

Thanks for the pointers. As noted, I did try both iMacPro1,1 and MacPro 7,1 LiLu & WEG are both the very latest versions I'll try that specific version of clover and iMacPro one more time and then give up and just do a fresh install. As I say, this VM has been serving me well for some time, but who knows what idiosyncrasies have crept in. Thanks for all your work and effort in this thread, by the way, I've found it more than useful! UPDATE: Finally got this working after a complete VM re-install and even more pfaffing around. Full details on my blog for future reference!

So I'm having a torrid time attempting to get HEVC enabled on my RX570 in Mojave VM. Hopefully someone here can offer some insights. I have a long-standing Mojave VM booting from a physical SSD. EFI partition is on the SSD as well, so only one disk configured in VM XML. Clover v. 4xxx is installed in EFI. RX570 is passed through and is working with Metal support and H.265 reported in VidProc. HEVC remains resolutely disabled in VidProc despite my best attempts. I've configured my SMBIOS to be a wide variety of systems from MacPro 1,1 through 7,1 and iMacPro 1,1, all to no avail. There are a few points of note; I cannot get Clover to load Lilu/WEG from the /other folder. I must install to /library/extensions using HackInTool for it to show as loaded in ioRegistry. (I have checked that load kexts is set to 'yes' in clover configurator) Despite WEG being loaded, my GPU remains stubbornly attached to parent S28@5 in ioRegistry. I understand this should be GFX0 - but I cannot make this happen I've tried updating to Clover 5xxxx but this just hangs at 'scanning devices'. (I understand that newer versions are more trouble than they are worth - I just thought an update might load kexts from 'other'. The VM is running very smoothly and is very stable. i'd just like to have it as close to bare metal as possible and HEVC is that elusive functionality I'm chasing. I want to make one last attempt at this before I go through a full fresh install. Any tips appreciated.

There's ways around that

Interesting to read of someone going the other way! (sonos -> LMS) One interesting thing you can do is, if you have a multi-channel audio card, you can set up multiple virtual squeezebox clients on a singe machine / VM and manage your zones that way. It depends, of course, on your topology. if you have centralised amplification with speaker wire runs to zones, this can work out really well. I have some (very old) posts on the topic you might find interesting; https://mediaserver8.blogspot.com/2012/04/whole-house-audio-step-1.html https://mediaserver8.blogspot.com/2014/04/whole-house-audio-step-2.html The second, in particular, deals with the headless 'SqueezeSlave' software. The is the cleanest, most efficient way I've found to run LMS multi-zone.

OK, have it working. Many thanks! One thing I missed after updating the server details was that I needed to login via the docker UI. I'd stopped and started unraid-API a few times as I wasn't getting the response to the MQTT request. Once I logged in, I was golden. I'll have a play over the weekend to see what I can do with this.

Actually, thinking about it, the non-standard port is likely the issue? If your docker is attempting to make calls to port 80, it won't work for me. As indicated, sometimes it's necessary to run UnRaid on an alternative port. Would you need to expose a variable for unRaid UI host port in the docker config?

Hi unraid UI is served over http PlugIn list attached, nothing too unusual, I believe. My unraidAPi network is configured as per screenshot in original post: Bridget, privileges off. Maybe the following would have an impact? 1. My MQTT docker is configured as host; (I'm not sure why it's set like this, I think it's the only way I could Node-Red to talk to it because.... 2. My unRaid UI is running on a non-standard port (I needed to map port 80 directly to port 80 in a NodeRed docker as my Alexa LAN discovery node insists it is configurerd so)

Thanks. My docker log is filled with multiple instances of the following (ip obfuscated by me); The secure keys for mqtt may have not been generated, you need to make 1 authenticated request via the API first for this to work Get Dashboard Details for ip: 192.168.n.n Failed with status code: undefined Request failed with status code 404 Get Docker Details for ip: 192.168.n.n Failed with status code: undefined Request failed with status code 404 Get VM Details for ip: 192.168.n.n Failed with status code: undefined Request failed with status code 404 Get Main Details for ip: 192.168.n.n Failed with status code: undefined Request failed with status code 404 This repeats over and over. There are no timestamps.

Makes sense I can also clarify it's an issue when attempting to access VM log files, as well as the originally reported system log file accessed via the menu bar.

I’ve just verified this issue exists on Chrome on iOS (iPad). Unraid 6.8.0

I've encountered this on iPad as well. Cannot recall if it's restricted to Safari.

I've been messing with this for a while and have had a few ideas and experiments. (there are, of course, commercially available solutions, but where's the fun in that?) The main challenge is getting controller and power to the external system. One of the first attempts I had was utilising an external chassis not for additional drives but for PCI/PCIe expansion as I was running out of slots. One of the best investments I've made for my system is a Startech Expansion System which converts a single x1 PCIe into 2x PCIe slots and 2x PCI slots. I have a blog post here that discusses externalising this to a secondary chassis (having cannibalised the internals of the unit and mounted it in an external case); https://mediaserver8.blogspot.com/2014/09/thinking-outside-box.html I no longer use the unit in this way as I've updated my main system chassis and now have the room to internalise this expansion again, but the principle is a sound one. You can see how a like this, or similar, could be used to get the controller relocated to the external system,. (Magma make PCI/PCIe expansion systems as well, but they are expensive) I have another post here that outlines how this externalised solution was leveraged to include hard drives via either a PCIe adapter in the expansion unit or a simple SATA backplate to which I can run cables from the main system. (forgive the spaghetti cabling, this was proof of concept stuff!) The above is all old, but offers insights into some thinking and directions. My current X9 case has lots of space for expanding drives, but if I ever run out, I could re-deploy do something similar. Though I'd likely do it via a SAS expander for my LSI controller. The other challenge is power. You could run one or more cables from you PSU to the external chassis, but an altogether better solution would be to include a dedicated PSU. You could link this to your main system using a power supply sync module. This will allow your secondary PSU to power up when you sieth on your main system. With these solutions, you're going to have at least two if not more cables connecting your two systems. The much more expansive commercial solutions are, of course, much tidier. Connect up a thunderbolt cable and you're done. However, with SIY, you can spend all the saved cash on drives! Also, if you look at stackable cases, you can make everything very neat by running the cables internally. Just some food for thought!

Hi tried to get this up and running but no joy. Maybe I'm just using it wrong or have incorrect expectations; I'm trying to stay away from HA in my setup as it's just introducing another layer of complexity. I'm trying to build everything in Node-Red with MQTT as the messaging platform. As such, I set up this docker and tried sending it a direct MQTT message: meehab/api/getServers Am I wrong to expect the docker to respond on the mqtt base topic with a list of servers? Further, It's unclear what I'm supposed to see when I access the docker UI. Here's what I have; To get here, I had to enter my unraid username & password twice, first in the above box, then again in a pop up a few seconds later. The only affect seems to be the appearance of the shallow grey box on the right. What should i expect to see here? if I click on 'API Docs' and then back to welcome, I seem to be logged out (not connected) and must log in again. Here's my docker config;

So I'd really really like to see VM management made a little easier; 1. Non destructive editing I'm getting really tired of copy / pasting XML fragments any time I made an edit in VM manager form view. Yes, I run OSX VMs that need some special stuff in XML, but it would be great to be able to change GPUs etc., without needed to paste all the custom XML back in. 2. Easier Passthorugh We can define CPU pins and ACS override through the GUI, why can't we specify PCIe devices to hide? A simple checkbox beside an IOMMU group in the device listing that would drop it into the syslinux file would be a super time saver. (and make explaining device hiding to newbies a lot easier).

Hi you won't be able to share a single GPU with two different VMs running simultaneously, regardless of how many outputs it has. You could share a GPU across multiple VMs, provided that the don't run at the same time , but that's not what you asked I cannot answer the 'least power demanding graphics cads', sorry. You might need to fist establish what you want to do with your VM and find out the GPU features you need. I once ran an unRaid server with 3x Windows 8 VMs all using HD5xxx single slot fanless cards. That system sipped power, but I wouldn't be running games or rendering or anything too demanding in those VMs. Figure out what horsepower you need, and for what, and that will help narrow down the search.

Hi folks, don't want to open a big discussion here to derail the thread, but if anyone has any thoughts on why I'd be seeing less than stellar performance in OSX VMs on a decent Threadripper system, please help me out here: Thanks!

I have a similar need for one of my VMs that occasionally locks up. The screen and keyboard/mouse is some distance from my unRaid server so I need to find a way to force reset the vm that’s easy for the family. Fortunately, I’m into home automation and have a Node-Red docker running on my server. In there, I’ll be able to set up a flow to call virsh reset and power on commands to the unRaid server. Once that’s set up, I’ll just need to trigger them. One idea is to use an amazon echo so it can be done via voice eg “Alexa, turn on the computer”. another is to use a physical button such as this z-wave remote to get the job done: https://amzn.to/2ZX1MF9 it's a high priority project for me so will be done soon. I’ll report back on success, or otherwise.

Thanks. I plan on posting in the builds section of the forums here in the next few days. In the meantime, check out the blog post linked in my post above. Feel free to pm me if you have specific questions rather than derail this birthday thread!

Happy birthday unRaid! I've been a user since at least v4. I did have an affair with Storage Spaces when they came out in Windows 8, but came back to unRaid when VMs were added. (I'm one of the soldiers that bought in to Xen, all the manual configs and all the pain, only to find KVM became king!) I've been blogging about everything unRaid enables me to do for over 7 years now. In that time (and still) the platform allows me run; Whole house network attached storage (!) Whole house audio system (squeezebox based) Whole house PVR & media (Emby + Kodi) Home Automation & IoT (Thanks Docker!) Multiple Hackintosh/Windows 10 VMs Multiple headless utility VMs Virtual HTPCs LAMP architecture to support automation as well as occasional web dev projects Lots of other bits & bobs I've likely forgotten And the bit I love - I can run all this on a single box. It's allowed me decommission any number of devices and systems. One Box To rule Them All.! I've just rebuilt my unRaid server with a Threadripper CPU to act as a foundation for the next number of years. A limited edition case badge would be the crowning glory.;