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I am yes, although surely the graphics card is still drawing power at idle even when the VM isn't running?

I've been monitoring my server having recently created my first windows VM for gaming and have noticed that even when the Windows VM is not doing anything, the server CPU use sits around 30% utilised. In the Windows VM, task manager shows 0-1% cpu use. Checking top, it seems to be the qemu-system-x86 eating the cpu. top - 15:06:11 up 4:22, 1 user, load average: 2.09, 0.94, 0.45 Tasks: 265 total, 1 running, 263 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie Cpu(s): 19.2%us, 2.9%sy, 0.0%ni, 64.1%id, 13.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 32977464k total, 31438000k used, 1539464k free, 183852k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 20425076k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 7406 root 20 0 12.6g 8.3g 17m S 183 26.5 1:16.96 qemu-system-x86 3924 nobody 20 0 1242m 176m 19m S 1 0.5 5:12.01 mono This seems to mean that my cores never idle down (or keep bouncing up and down) and therefore idle power consumption is up quite a bit. Measured at the wall, my tower without the VM running uses 90watts, with the VM running and IDLE it is pulling 150 watts. Now I would accept the higher power use if the VM was actually being used, but as it is just sat idle it just seems like a waste of money! Does this also mean that 30% of the CPU isn't available for use to either the VM or unraid too, as qemu-system-x86 is using it? Would be good to understand if this is expected or not? Is anyone else seeing something similar?

I've had loads of problems with this too, a number of games still won't allow it even with a mapped drive. I even tried using a symlink as others had suggested on the interweb, but that still wouldn't work. Minecraft for one I could not get to install no matter what I tried. I eventually pointed the installer to the c: drive and later copied everything to my mapped network drive. Luckily that seems to work. Origin wouldn't install anything on a mapped drive either, but Steam was OK. There is also the issue that windows doesn't like reconnecting the mapped drives at first boot up of the VM. So anything installed on that drive, the shortcuts don't appear. You have to double click on the mapped drive to make it connect. Would be better if we had some way of treating an array drive as local, but ultimately these seems to be windows issues rather than unraid.

Yep I've done exactly this with a USB3 hub and it works perfectly.

I had a similar issue with my ssd cache drive. Initially transferring to it via my win8.1 desktop i was seeing >100MB/s speeds. However at some point over a period of months, this dropped to max out at around 60MB/s. I couldn't work out what was causing it, so ended up assuming it was the SSD which had slowed over time. However having recently wiped my desktop and put win10 on it, I'm back to writing at 120MB/s to the cache! I can't explain why this would be, but it does seem it was something to do with my desktop. I wondered if it was related to network drivers or something, as on win10 i've just left everything as win10 installed it - whereas on my older setup i had installed specific intel drivers from their website.

Thank you! How did I not see that

getting more into vms now and having added my gaming graphics card to my tower, its sooo big it covers up another pcie slot so I can't have another graphics card in there which I use for plex/kodi. So am investigating using the same graphic card to my windows gaming VM desktop (DVI) as well as using the hdmi out on that card to power plex. Anyone ever done this? The first issue I've got is that i can only pass through one audio device. I'd like to pass through onboard audio as well as HDMI audio from my graphics card. Is this possible? I've also found that games running on the desktop seem to only run in the resolution of the TV connected via hdmi (which is lower than the desktop) when using multiple monitors. Has anyone come across this before and knows any way of working around that?

I've just fixed this (although I didn't have the yellow icon, mine just wouldn't sync to the wireless receiver) - look for my post in the KVM forum. You need to pass through an entire USB controller, rather than just the individual device. When I was researching for my issue I did see other posts on the internet discussing a yellow icon and they mentioned windows had installed the wrong drivers if it wasn't a 100% official microsoft wireless receiver. Does it work fine on another win10 pc?

Never mind, I solved it All working great now, even managed to get Origin working. Had to install the client to the array (mapped drive) then once installed there it would let me install games to the same location.

So am a bit confused on identifying the bus to pass through. Here is what lsusb shows and I can see my "Microsoft Corp. Xbox 360 Wireless Adapter" on bus 001 device 003. root@Tower:~# lsusb Bus 008 Device 003: ID 090c:1000 Silicon Motion, Inc. - Taiwan (formerly Feiya Technology Corp.) Flash Drive Bus 008 Device 005: ID 051d:0002 American Power Conversion Uninterruptible Power Supply Bus 008 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 003: ID 045e:0719 Microsoft Corp. Xbox 360 Wireless Adapter Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 007 Device 006: ID 0dc6:9802 Precision Squared Technology Corp. Bus 007 Device 004: ID 0dc6:3000 Precision Squared Technology Corp. Bus 007 Device 005: ID 04b4:0033 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. Mouse Bus 007 Device 003: ID 0409:005a NEC Corp. HighSpeed Hub Bus 007 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub root@Tower:~# readlink /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb1 ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.6/0000:05:00.0/usb1 What i see output from the readlink command looks longer than the example supplied though and I've tried adding the following block to the xml, but I get an error: <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x1c' function='0x6'/> </source> </hostdev> am I on the right track here?

Sorry one last question... do you have your controller working on a usb3 port? That would help me if i can use USB3.

doh.. thanks

Great this sounds promising! Are there any instructions anywhere on how to do this?

Thank you! I'll have to research how I can do that as I don't have any slots left to add in a separate USB card...

Hi all, well I decided to have a go at creating a windows10VM to be used for gaming. I added my amd r9 280x to my unraid tower and set about creating the VM. Amazingly (after realising only seabios worked) I got the VM created and windows10 installed with virtually no issues. I thought I was doing well until I tried installing the gaming parts to the VM: 1. Origin does not appear to work at all installing games anywhere other than the C: drive. I've tried everything I can think of (running as admin, creating a symlink to an array drive) and it simply won't install any games. As if it cannot access the "games" share I created, however I can access the share and create files fine from explorer. 2. Steam however did install and allowed me to install a game to the "games" share I created. This looked promising, so I then added my xbox 360 controller and... 3. I can't seem to get the xbox 360 pc usb controller to work. The receiver is detected fine and the software looks to be installed, but I am unable to "pair" the xbox controller to the receiver. The same controller/receiver works fine in my normal windows 10 pc. Has anyone else come across either the origin issue or the xbox controller issue? I've noticed I'm also getting the following error repeating in the log: libusb: error [submit_bulk_transfer] submiturb failed error -1 errno=28

Would it be possible to turn on turbo writes for when the mover runs and then turn off again afterwards?

Yeah its the openelec VM. Jon, did i read somewhere that hardware acceleration is disabled for AMD cards in this VM? Could that be the cause of the cpu usage? i.e its simply displaying the Kodi interface that uses all of the CPU?

How many CPU cores do you have allocated to the VM? 2 If you lower to 1, how does this impact performance for you / CPU usage? Lowering to one, TOP shows the cpu use sitting at 15% constantly. So is it pretty much maxing out whatever cpu it is given, even when not being used?

How many CPU cores do you have allocated to the VM? 2

Hi Jon, well being in the UK energy is pretty expensive, so wasting it isn't high on my priority list The 20% cpu use is when no-one is using the system at all, i.e. NO LOAD. It just sits there using 20% cpu constantly, which doesn't seem right to me?

Hi all, I'm using the OE VM and have noticed that "qemu-system-x86" seems to use 20% of the cpu when the VM is running. This is even when the VM is not in use. Is this anything to be concerned about? top - 11:17:44 up 1:23, 1 user, load average: 0.49, 0.57, 2.55 Tasks: 230 total, 1 running, 229 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 2.9%us, 0.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 96.4%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 32977464k total, 31989720k used, 987744k free, 204180k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 26279728k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 11610 root 20 0 5140m 4.2g 17m S 21 13.2 0:22.50 qemu-system-x86 3702 nobody 20 0 1240m 189m 35m S 2 0.6 1:38.43 mono

Are you running cache dirs? Yes Were the drives sleeping when browsed by Windows? Some were, but the ones being accessed by the mover were spinning (according to the GUI) What are your folder explorer settings, general files or media or music or automatic? General Do you have spinup groups enabled? No What shares are being used when moved? Just one share called TV Series What are your share settings and thresholds? Set to High water (is that what you mean?) What are your disks min free space settings? set to 0kb (default?)

Hi all, am trying to understand why my unraid server is currently running really slowly. Its hard to say exactly when this started, but it could be from the latest release. One thing I'm noticing is that accessing my server whilst the move is running is almost impossible. Windows just hangs when trying to even list files in a share. So I started monitoring the console and see the write count increasing on 4 disks at the same time (excluding parity) whilst the mover is running. Is that to be expected? I'd assumed one file copied at once (this is what the log seems to show), so why writes to multiple disks? I also notice from running the drive testing script that one drive (disk seems to be slow, however the slowness of the server in general seems to still be there even when not writing to this disk. Drive Identification Parity: ST32000542AS 6XW1TDSP 2.0 TB 92 MB/sec avg Disk 1: WDC WD20EZRX-00D8PB0 WD-WCC4M6TJH6YH 2.0 TB 116 MB/sec avg Disk 2: SAMSUNG HD753LJ S13UJ1NQ301117 750 GB 74 MB/sec avg Disk 3: WDC WD20EZRX-00D8PB0 WD-WCC4MLEVP1SV 2.0 TB 107 MB/sec avg Disk 4: Hitachi HDS5C3020BLE630 MCE7215P0S2YDW 2.0 TB 126 MB/sec avg Disk 5: WDC WD10EADS-00L5B1 WD-WCAU4D602033 1.0 TB 78 MB/sec avg Disk 6: WDC WD20EFRX-68AX9N0 WD-WMC300113583 2.0 TB 114 MB/sec avg Disk 7: ST32000542AS 5XW09RHL 2.0 TB 88 MB/sec avg Disk 8: SAMSUNG HD103UJ S13PJDWS615684 1.0 TB 41 MB/sec avg Disk 9: WDC WD20EZRX-00D8PB0 WD-WCC4MLUD6STV 2.0 TB 115 MB/sec avg Disk 10: ST31000528AS 9VP91VY2 1.0 TB 89 MB/sec avg Disk 11: WDC WD10EADS-00P8B0 WD-WMAVU1976292 1.0 TB 81 MB/sec avg Cache: Crucial_CT256MX100SSD1 14400D637CEA 256 GB 81 MB/sec avg actually I notice that the script is reporting the cache drive wrongly in the html file generated. The actual output looked like this: /dev/sdb (Disk 1): 116 MB/sec avg /dev/sdc (Disk 2): 74 MB/sec avg /dev/sdd (Disk 3): 107 MB/sec avg /dev/sde (Disk 4): 126 MB/sec avg /dev/sdf (Cache): 283 MB/sec avg /dev/sdg (Disk 5): 78 MB/sec avg /dev/sdh (Disk 6): 114 MB/sec avg /dev/sdi (Parity): 92 MB/sec avg /dev/sdj (Disk 7): 88 MB/sec avg /dev/sdk (Disk : 41 MB/sec avg /dev/sdl (Disk 9): 115 MB/sec avg /dev/sdm (Disk 10): 89 MB/sec avg /dev/sdn (Disk 11): 81 MB/sec avg

Just wanted to add I'm seeing a serious slowdown with my server. I can't say whether it was from this release or not (i've not noticed it before though). When the mover is running its copying from my ssd cache drive to the array at only 10MB/s max and if I try doing anything else with the server whilst its running such as streaming a movie - it stutters and hangs. I've also noticed copying to my cache drive seems to top out at 65-70MB/s whereas previously I've seen over 100MB/s. I've tried disabling cache dirs and my vm but that didn't help. Can anyone advise how to revert to the previous version? I see there is a "previous" folder on the flash drive - does that equate to the previous version?

No, your MAC address hasn't changed. That's quite literally impossible as its hard coded. What has more likely happened is that you have two Ethernet interfaces and both are plugged in and when this is the case and bonding isn't enabled, a race condition determines which one unRAID uses for network connectivity. Enable bonding under network settings should resolve this. Hmm, I do have multiple interfaces but only one is plugged in (the same one I've always used). In fact the onboard one is disabled via the BIOS, I use an add-in intel card. I have to admit I did think the mac address was hard coded, but whatever has happened it has changed and I need to use the new one to wake up the server? I wonder if I have old logs which might show what it was before and after the change... or if I disable the bridge whether it changes again.. will have a play when I get chance.