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Made a few more new cables and tried them out. Same issues. Except now the speed drops if the VM is running, not just when a download is going. I have no idea how to proceed. Nothing has changed software-wise since before the problems started. Cant even download Docker container updates without the whole server bogging down to slower than a crawl. direwolf-diagnostics-20251212-2117.zip

Tried that out and didn’t have any luck… Not quite sure what’s going on… In the VM, the card says 100Mbps, but the br0 that was set up in the configuration of the VM shows 1000Mbps (in terms of network card properties). Speedtest.net gives me 8Mbps down and ~50Mbps up. But my librespeed container shows 2,500Mbps….

Didn't seem to work.... Making sure I did it correctly, i switched my main NIC in network settings to have a different one in eth0, then set the separate NIC as eth2 (my onboard NIC has dual ports and the second one took up eth1). Then i changed the network interface in my VM configuration to use eth2 instead of br0. Tried it the other way around too with my separate NIC for my Unraid side of things and the onboard NIC for my VM. I can't seem to figure this one out.

Tried swapping in a NIC instead of my onboard one and the problems are persisting. What I figured out is that the internet issues are only in my VM, not the rest of my Unraid setup. But, if I download anything inside the VM, it slows down everything (even my Docker Containers). But, the Docker containers can handle any type of bandwidth without slowdown as long as the VM is not using any bandwidth. Anyone have any ideas?

download speeds are in the gutter.... I'm thinking I need a separate Intel NIC. Can someone help me confirm? Tried a different CAT5 cable, tried bypassing my 5-port switch as well. Was going to try updating my BIOS, but won't have time for a while to get to it. Just ordered two cheap NIC's to try out, but are there other suggestions for reliable NIC's these days? direwolf-diagnostics-20251104-1936.zip

Yeah, about to be moving, so once I get everything set back up at the new place (set up and stable), I'll check for an update. The port that's throwing the error is not a slot that I can just swap from (I don't think)... I traced it all the way through and all of the components downstream are built in to the motherboard (not external devices seated in a PCIe slot). Here is the result of lspci -tv +-[0000:20]-+-00.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse Root Complex +-00.2 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Milan IOMMU +-01.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge +-01.1-[21-2c]----00.0-[22-2c]--+-01.0-[23]----00.0 ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM3242 USB 3.2 Host Controller +-02.0-[24-25]--+-00.0 Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller X550 \-00.1 Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller X550 +-03.0-[26]----00.0 Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6E(802.11ax) AX210/AX1675* 2x2 [Typhoon Peak] +-04.0-[27]----00.0 ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1061/ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller +-05.0-[28]----00.0 ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1061/ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller +-06.0-[29-2a]----00.0-[2a]----00.0 ASPEED Technology, Inc. ASPEED Graphics Family +-08.0-[2b]--+-00.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse Reserved SPP +-00.1 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Matisse USB 3.0 Host Controller \-00.3 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Matisse USB 3.0 Host Controller \-0a.0-[2c]----00.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SATA Controller [AHCI mode] +-01.2-[2d]----00.0 Phison Electronics Corporation E18 PCIe4 NVMe Controller +-01.3-[2e]----00.0 Phison Electronics Corporation E18 PCIe4 NVMe Controller +-02.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge +-03.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge +-04.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge +-05.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge +-07.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge +-07.1-[2f]----00.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Function +-08.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse PCIe Dummy Host Bridge \-08.1-[30]--+-00.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse Reserved SPP +-00.1 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse Cryptographic Coprocessor PSPCPP +-00.3 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship USB 3.0 Host Controller \-00.4 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio Controller

Errors are still reporting, but the bottlenecking isn't happening anymore! Not sure if it was just the error suppression or the combination of that with the ASPM getting turned off, but all good now. With the errors still being there, is it something to be worried about, or is it just a hardware quirk for ASUS motherboards?

Unfortunately, that didn’t work…. Ran cat /proc/codling to confirm it was in there too. Unless I did something wrong (honestly thats the first time I’ve edited my config).

I'm just trying to figure out what to fix... I'm hoping it isn't a motherboard issue. I've re-seated PCI slots, checked my power connections, and I'm still having issues. I think the NIC, GPU, and a few other things share the root port that is throwing errors, so the errors (which are all being "corrected by hardware") are throttling everything with interrupts. Not sure what to do besides replacing the motherboard...

My log has been filling up with errors, and it seems to be stemming from my root PCIe port (my NIC is downstream on this one). So, when i download anything on my Windows 11 VM, everything bogs down when I'm connected remotely. Unusably slow... Problems just started in the past week or so (hard to pinpoint as things seem fine when there isn't something downloading). Trying to figure out if it's chip noise, needing to update the BIOS, failing PSU, failing motherboard, etc.). Any help would be awesome! Not sure if the problems were there before or not (again, because things seem fine when there isn't a download going), but I did just update Unraid about 6 days ago. Didn't notice anything before that. Currently have Unraid 7.1.4 installed. direwolf-diagnostics-20250907-0830.zip

Got home from work today and my wife mentioned that the server was off and she had to turn it on, but it never fully came online. It was stuck on a 04 code on my ASUS Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WIFI II. This is a “PCH initialization before microcode loading” step for that board. I had to turn it off, unplug the power cable, and hold down the power button for a while to drain residual power, but it worked and the server came online like nothing ever happened (besides a parity check due to an unclean shutdown). Not sure where to start on the troubleshooting side of things. I have a decent amount of drives, but my power supply is 1300W and I don’t think those would be maxing it out (just replaced two drives that had smart errors which are connected in unassigned disks so I can run extended smart tests on them). With those two new drives, I added an LSI-9300 8i HBA with the stock cables. Any ideas or help would be great! Unraid version 7.01direwolf-diagnostics-20250513-1844.zip

Just for anyone else who finds this thread down the line: SeaBIOS will not work with my setup due to the GPU requiring UEFI for passthrough. I was able to restore to a previous backup with the following steps (the custom XML VM provided above did not work as it wouldn't boot with my GPU due to the BIOS being changed to SeaBIOS): Created new nvram folder in etc/libvirt/qemu for my OVMF VARS files Copied backup .fd into the newly created nvram folder (make sure to remove the timestamp from the beginning of any backup files) Copied backup vdisk1 into my domains folder associated with this VM Copied old backup libvirt.img (xml and vdisk 1 were from late July, and the libvirt image was from back in January) and replaced the current libvirt image in /mnt/user/system/libvirt/libvirt.img Used the xml to create new windows 11 VM via xml mode Everything booted up at that point and I only lost a month's worth of software that I had setup (no important documents, just the software packages themselves). Probably going to rethink my backup strategy for VM's now and make things more automatic. I stopped doing automatic backups because I had to shut down the VM in order to do so. Not sure if I want to redo everything and try to start using snapshots instead, but I'm not sure how straightforward that conversion would be. Likely going to just do more frequent manual backups after major changes to software/settings that I want to persist. @bmartino1 I appreciate the help! Your solution will likely help a lot of other people, but didn't quite help me due to requiring UEFI boot for my GPU passthrough. Long story short: if you have a .fd VARS file for a backup restore, but your nvram folder is gone, just create a new nvram folder where it should go (/etc/libvirt/qemu/nvram/) and copy your .fd file in there and start up that VM!

I can't do anything remotely with that VM right now unfortunately, so I can't see what's going on in that machine right now. But, it looks like it booted. Just need to check on my monitor what's going on once I get home. There is still no nvram folder. Do I not need that .fd file for everything to work correctly? I see the OVMF lines are removed from the code you provided, does that not matter?

Backups done via VM Backup plugin (not as regularyl as I should've been doing, but most important files are on server shares - just software that will need to be re-downloaded). I have a libvirt file from months prior to the vdisk backup (for some reason it didn't backup the libvirt at that time).

direwolf-diagnostics-20240826-1246.zip Apologies, working off my phone today with my VM being down and didn't grab those. See attached. Stable release of Unraid. 6.12.10

All, I had a windows 11 VM crash and it restarted with the windows recovery message on the screen. Not sure what caused it to crash at all, just saw that it was paused on the VM's tab, and my monitor showed that recovery screen. I have a backup that I can use to restore it, but I'm getting stuck. I have the .xml file, the vdisk1.img, and the .fd file. I put the vdisk where it should go in my domains share that I use for VM vdisks, used the .xml file to create a VM in form mode, but the .fd file part is where I'm getting stuck. I had deleted the libvirt file to rebuild and see if that would kick my VM into gear before doing a full restore (excuse my naivete if that just made things harder), but obviously it didn't work. When I went to copy the .fd file (minus my backup timestamp on the file name) into the nvram folder, I noticed that there is no etc/libvirt/qemu/nvram folder on my server (thinking it has something to do with me deleting the libvirt image). Can I just make a new folder there and put the .fd file in, or are there different steps I should take to restore that folder?

Well whattya know! Started writing to disk 3 a few minutes ago. I definitely think it was the TB vs TIB conversion. Good to know moving forward!

That was in the back of my mind. Obviously I have some more room on there so I just wanted to get ahead of it. I'll keep an eye on things and see what happens when it fills up a little bit more. Thank you! Unraid has been a lot easier than I thought it was going to be honestly. Definitely still some idiosyncrasies, but pretty intuitive otherwise. Even got the VM with GPU passthrough to work with Topaz Labs Video Enhance AI on the VM (which Topaz had said wouldn't work in a virtualized environment). I've read so many answers from yourself and Squid on other people's issues and all of you super users have provided a great deal of knowledge. We all appreciate it!

I assume you're asking about the docker mappings, correct? I'm writing to the appropriate folders within the user shares in Krusader

Can't seem to get my next disk to start filling up (disk3) with my media for TV Shows and Movies shares. I'm guessing it has to do with me not understanding the minimum free option for shares. I've been using disk2 for media storage and want it to start filling up disk3 next. Any input on where to dig deeper on my configuration? Let me know if I need to provide additional info. I have my Movies and TV Shows shares set up to use the "Fill Up" method without any split level restrictions. Both shares have a 1.6TB minimum free space value (I want to leave some room on there for moving files around down the road). Is there something I'm missing? Krusader keeps copying to Disk 2 even though I have less than 1.6TB left on the drive. Scratching my head at this point, but at least I still have some storage space left on that disk until I figure this out. Current workflow looks like this (not using torrents at all): Add DVD/Blu-Ray to vms_nvme 1TB cache drive --> Handbrake output onto same vms_nvme drive --> FileBot output to share on disk2 (just changed this to include disk3) --> Krusader copy to appropriate folder in TV Show share or Movies share --> Unbalance plugin to make sure all files are on the right disks direwolf-diagnostics-20240412-0913.zip