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Thank you. I forgot to update this when I found the solution for me. It was simply to change the disk type. But I have been having problems running VMs. I have to look further into these settings that I had no clue you had/could change. I also very much recommend Virt-Manager. I have still to dive into it, but it looks powerful and easy to use (I hate to use CLI, and script edits).

Is it possible to replace VMS with Virt-Manager or add to the top bar in Unraid?

Thank you very much. I love this manager and im utterly amazed Unraid does not have this as the default VM manager. For those not so good at linux (like I am) usually you can use wget to download files, but not this link. So download the file to your computer, then use the Unraid file manager (Dynamix File Manager) to upload the file to the server from your computer. Now I dont know how to navigate to the root directories in the file manager so just put the file in some directory then go to Terminal, find the file and use the command cp my-Virt-Manager.xml /boot/config/plugins/dockerMan/templates-user/my-Virt-Manager.xml I dont know if you have to, but I rebooted Unraid, then go to Docker add container and virt-manager is in the template list.

How about when you manually add an existing disk?

Am I doing it wrong? "Need" is very open ended. In a SO and even home you dont want to take the VM offline for minimum adjustments. There is no editing of a running machine, cannot add hard disks, not even change the notes.

And I did send in a feature request about being able to change the type of HDD when you manually add it (QCOW2 RAW). And showing information about he chosen image. it was not responded to and most likely never will be.

What is a CA? Where can I find that? I think Unraid is aiming at the SOHO market? But even if its just the home market it would be silly not to try for gold... As far as I can see the existing manager has not improved in a long time, (photos of the thing). Adopt this project, https://github.com/retspen/webvirtmgr it seems to be abandoned. Lightyears easier to adopt this than to spend manhours re-inventing it.

I cannot find this virt-manager in the APPS, and have no idea how to instal it. But a youtube video I found looks good. Why are they not using this as a default VMs manager in Unraid? I could write a long and detailed feature request list, but this seems to be it, and it's already made for this purpose.

Libvirt is at version 8.7 from september 2022 in Unraid and the most recent 10.2 from april 2024. QEMU is at version 7.2 from december 2022 in Unraid and the most recent 8.2.2 from mars 2024 There are no security flaws of note in libvirt but there are some nasty ones in QEMU. Most platforms try to quickly address these, if my machines are compromised due to a a unaddressed bug, my working career is over. And Unraids reputation would be very "damaged". Stability is fine and the reason I had to change from Vmware, GPU passthrough is working. But confidence in the platform very low for me. Also the VM GUI in Unraid is so underpowered and bad that I am amazed. Have the developers never seen Vmware?

I noticed that Libvirt and QEMU are out of date and very much out of date. Is there a reason? Do we have to update ourselves?

Could you add a drop down menu to the manual location for vdisk type (like when using auto). Now it defaults to RAW and I have to edit it in XML view to set it to another format. I could even automatically select the correct vdisk type 💥 As an added bonus it would be excellent to add a info button that gives you information about the vdisk at hand.

I have been unable to get a systemlog server to work with Unraid. I tried Visual Syslog server on Windows. It never received anything. But should "mirror syslog to flash" work just the same? and I have "local syslog rotation" disabled. why was it still overwriting the logs? But the problem is mute now. This only happens when the computer has had an unscheduled power off. And that seems to be fixed now.

I managed to find the fault. It was badly applied thermal paste on the CPU. Installed Windows and it soon became clear. Im very disappointed in Unraid for its lack of troubleshooting tools available. Its necessary to have Windows around if there are any problems with the computer running Unraid. (FYI something new I learned about Windows 11, it does not allow itself to be installed on a USB drive for some reason).

But then I cannot access the web interface to get them and my CLI knowlege is highly limited. Is there no setting or something that tells the Unraid server to append to the logs, not to override them?

But does Unraid call upon those power controls? I cannot find any information about that.