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It turned out that it was my windows 7 install ISO. I had a really old (pre sp1) iso so decided to try and find a newer ISO Microsoft/Digital River pulled the windows 7 images a while ago making it bit harder to find an original Microsoft ISO. Here is a link with some info on all the original Microsoft untouched ISOs https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/31k5yr/where_to_find_original_untouched_windows_7_isos/ en_windows_7_professional_with_sp1_x64_dvd_u_676939 <- this original microsoft ISO is what i used and it played nice with the unraid installer

That is exactly the FAQ I started from.. What you did (install windows 7 and pick up the windows 10 upgrade) is exactly what I was hoping to do so I will try windows 7 again. I was enabling all the core for the windows 10 install all the cores so maybe that is why it failed. For windows 7 - I did (at least I think I did) follow to a tea those instructions. There is another thread on this that points to the install media causing the problem with 'unsigned drivers' https://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=41652.15 Maybe I will try to get another windows 7 iso that includes SP1 as listed in that URL above. or try to install the 32 bit version of windows 7 or try a different version of virtio drivers. The trick is that this is our tv server so to take it down means I need to start late when others are sleeping. If I understand correctly, the lack of VT-d means I cant push the computers graphics to an attached monitor? If that all I would be missing, if so that doesnt matter me to as I only remote in to this box. It is a media server that I run sagetv on, so basically it just functions as a file server Thanks for the encouragement. I think my new PC idea is mostly driven by not having any down time and by the fact that there are some nice super micro xeon boxes on Ebay under $120. Considering I could spend $50 just adding memory to my existing box it got me thinking.

I wanted to redo my home media server as a VM on unraid. The unraid setup was super easy and very well. However I couldnt get a win7 or win10 VM running. For win7, it kept failing the drivers telling me the virtual drivers were unsigned and couldnt be used. I did some reading from threads with the same problem and they recommended a differnt win7 iso. I tried a second iso with same issue. For Win10, it took the drivers fine and started the install but it started looping some error messages at restart. For motherboards, I was using a Asus PSQ-EM which is an Intel LGA775 chipset board with Intel G45/ ICH10R chipset. Does any of this sound like a hardware issue? Is there a recommend system/chip set when running VMs? I was looking at replacing this motherboard to get something with IPMI as the server closet doesnt really have a lot of room for keyboard/monitor. If I make a purchase I would love to get something that plays nice with unraid. Any recommendations?

I have a win7 sever that has a small SD drive with OS and a pair of 3TB drives in raid 1. My plan to rebuild this server as a VM under unraid. I want to play with unraid to test the VM before I go all in. My server is a video server and uses a Haupagee caputre tool that runs over USB but is finiky. I want to make sure that passes through before I go all in. I dont have a stack of extra drives where I can build a whole new setup without reusing some of the drives from my current system. It is possible run unraid with just a single drive to set up and test the hypervisior? I would like to keep the original OS drive data drives on the side in case I decide to revert back. I have seen some setups where they use SSDs for cache drives and run the VMs(or at least the ones that are speed sensitiveness) off the cache drives. I think that would be my end game but was wondering if I can migrate the VMs between the regular and cache drives if I so choose.

i have a system that i want to convert to unraid. is it possible to back up the system and then re-install it as a VM under unraid? I am assume there will be drivers that need to be reinstalled but I know in the past I have had issues restoring windows backups to different hardware. I use acronis now for backup.. is there a better way?