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Yes I have an Unraid Pro licence. There was a bit of confusion here above... I wasn't trying to run Unraid in an Unraid VM 😁. I have plenty of VMs that run fine, but I cannot get it to boot one from a VMDK file that I exported from AWS.

Ah no, I see what you mean though. No I have a VM that I exported from AWS and wanted to then run it in Unraid. I think I did everything right but it never gets past "Booting from hard disk". I'll look into it again this weekend and post any progress if there is any! Thanks

Hi, forgive my ignorance but why would I need a flash drive passed through to the VM? I don't intend on updating it at all, it's just going to be so I can spin it up for reference. Thanks

Hi All, I have VMDK that I exported from an AWS EC2 instance from a few years ago. I was trying to create it as a VM in Unraid... I followed instructions from: Here is what I have done: * Created a new VM in Unraid * Set logical CPUs * Set the BIOS to SeaBIOS * Set the primary vdisk location manually (typing out the full path /awsexport.vmdk) * Set primary vdisk bus to SATA * Left all other settings as default and started the VM I am getting stuck at this point: I've left this for a few minutes but it seems it's not going to work. Is there anything else I should be doing before expecting this to work? Many thanks

OK I figured this out (and I feel kinda stupid now)... When adding the second vdisk, it was automatically setting `2nd vDisk Bus` to VirtIO when obviously this should have been set to SATA (or I guess one of the others options if you need it to). I guess I just didn't notice it! So changed this to SATA, and yeah, it boots now! Doh!

Hi All, On my Unraid VM I have GPU passthrough setup on it to my GTX 970 and running Windows 11. Generally speaking the performance is great! I added a second vdisk in the config and since doing this, it will not boot. Initially I thought that I had broken something else in the config XML, but if go back and remove the new vdisk then it will boot and work exactly as before (note: I am editing the VM config using the GUI, not changing the XML manually...). As another test I decided to add the second vdisk and also change the GPU passthrough to virtual. This works and I was able to remote in using VNC and initialise the new "drive" in windows which is the vdisk. Everything there is working as expected. As soon as I re-enable GPU passthrough though, it fails to boot. Again, that is until I remove the second vdisk then it is back to working again. I have attached two configs. One that is working with just 1x vdisk configured, and one that isn't working with 2x vdisks configured. I can see the differences in the two files, but I don't quite understand why it breaks it. Edit: I have now removed XML config files as they are no longer necessary... Problem is solved. Does anyone know where I went wrong here? Many thanks

Hi All, I've created a Debian VM and then using VNC I setup a user and enabled SSH. From my local machine I am able to ssh into it just fine, but only by using the VM's IP address. I have configured a custom.local hostname on it as I normally would, however this never works when attempting to connect or ping from my local machine. I am getting a "Unknown host" response whenever I try this. I am curious, is this potentially due to how the VM handles its networking? Or is it likely that I have configured the hostname incorrectly? Thanks

Excellent video btw. Great way to understand how the parity drive works. It doesn't really go into the details of exaclty how the second parity drive works, but it sounds like it works independently of the first parity drive but using a different algorithm. That way you are able to rebuild for all scenarios where one or two drives are bad, even if one of those two bad drives is one of the parity drives. I also didn't realise Unraid will emulate data on the bad drive when a drive is missing or bad (as shown here: https://youtu.be/dX2PvD1qtKw?t=601). Useful to know! Yep, that's going to be my next purchase 😅 I think what I didn't appreciate before was how the parity drive actually works. I was foolishly thinking more like a traditional RAID1 setup, probably because that is the only thing I have ever setup in the past! I think what I am going to do is get some additional drives to expand the array and then invest in a UPS. I'm not going to worry about a second parity drive until I the array has more drives in it. As for redundancy, I am using rsync to automate backing up to another NAS periodically. Thanks everyone 😁

OK gotcha. I didn't realise there was a maximum on two parity drives. I guess if you have an insane amount of drives on your unraid setup (for example if you went with 10+ drives) with 2 extra drives for parity, then your data is at most only protected for 2x simulatneous drive failures at once? I'm guessing most in this situation would probably run a second unraid server instead or maybe invest in some power protection or a UPS system instead? (I don't intend on having that many drives btw 😁, just curious really) Thanks, watching now.

Ah ok, so I guess if you start noticing lots of errors on the drives all of a sudden, or if unraid fires a warning notification (I'm guessing this is a thing?), then it's time to go into data recovery mode... In which case, I'm guessing the ideal scenario would be to connect up new additional drive(s) and move the data across? Then you are free to shutdown and remove the bad drive(s). I'm yet to look into how the data recovery process works, I should read up on that! Ah ok, interesting. So running a 2 disk array with a 2 disk parity would be completely overkill? I'm guessing it would work fine if you decided to set it up this way, but a tad unnecessary. Having more parity drives than array drives on the other hand, would not really achieve anything, right? Thanks for your input 😁👍

Interesting that it worked on Unraid 5 - I saw the other day that someone else had mentioned this on Youtube. For now I am using legacy VMs just using VNC. I would like to get this working though, so I will update this thread if I come across any solutions!

Hi All, I have been using Unraid since Dec22 and loving it so far! My current setup has 2x 8TB Seagate IronWolf drives, with one in the array and one as a parity drive (I am also using a nvme drive for appdata/domains/system). I have been reading about how the parity disk works (https://wiki.unraid.net/Parity) and I am curious about expanding the array size... If I leave my setup like above, and the single drive in the array fails. Am I right in thinking that I would be able to recover data on the array using the single parity drive? If I were to add an additional 8TB drive to the array (which would then be 2x 8TB drives in array, 1x 8TB parity drive), would the single parity drive allow me to rebuild if one of the two array drives fails? But if both drives in the array were to fail, the single parity drive would not be enough? Ultimatley, I am looking to expand and wondering at what point you would want to add an additional parity drive! Many thanks

Yeah I'm not getting any output on the graphics card for this WinXP config on either card. With my current XP config, I am finding that as soon as I switch the VM's graphics card from "Virtual" to either of the cards installed (and I am then also setting the soundcard to the relevant option), and then start the VM, nothing seems to work. If I switch the graphics card back to Virtual/VNC, it all starts working again. The network setup is the same in both scenarios, yet when using a virtual graphics card I am able to RDP to remote in (without touching VNC), but when using a real graphics card I cannot. So I'm guessing the OS isn't booting at all. I'll update this post if I get any further... Thanks for your input.

Ah, yes you are correct. I do have another GPU installed which is a GeForce GT 610. I think I can use these drivers for it: https://www.nvidia.co.uk/download/driverResults.aspx/105193/en-uk If the hardware is compatible, is there a reason why passthrough wouldn't work if configured correctly? Thanks

Hi All, I have recently managed to get a Windows XP VM up and running using the advice from here: One thing that I'd love to do is pass through the GPU hardware instead of using VNC. The GPU I have is a Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 and I have official xp drivers for it downloaded from Nvidia. The problem is I am not sure how to install the GPU drivers. At the moment I can either connect via VNC, in which case the Nvidia installer complains that there is no hardware found. Or, I can attempt to connect with GPU passthrough enabled, but then I never see anything on the monitor and I am unable to get XP to login so that I can then RDP in so I can try to install the drivers. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks