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Ok, read every post I could find and tried lots of tricks, but the fix appears to be the VM nic settings. Machnie type of 2.7 didnt help. virtio drivers didnt make a difference. Changing from br0 to virbr0 and all is back to 'normal'. I will note I am getting a lot of these smbus: error: Unexpected recv start condition in state 3 smbus: error: Unexpected read in state -1 smbus: error: Unexpected NACK in state -1 smbus: error: Unexpected NACK in state -1 but not seeing any fix yet for that in other posts. Truth is this has just been running for the last couple years so I was behind on a lot of drivers. Thanks.

So I have been on 6.1.7 for a long while, and was doing some updates last night. Not thinking about possible issues I went to 6.3.3 and now my VM is having lots of performance issues. Updated to the latest nvidia drivers, but video and sound stutter a lot and are very slow (i.e. youtube, games, etc). I recall I spent a lot of time getting the HDMI sound working before, but this is more than sound (its there, but tons of static and slow). Any chance anyone else has experienced this? Did a bit of searching and didnt find similar issues, likely missed it. Thanks in advance. Might have to look into downgrading back to 6.1.7 I think.

ah, that helps thanks.

User Share Copy Bug Disk to disk or user share to user share, don't mix them. The linux cp and mv commands don't know that /mnt/user/Share/blah might actually refer to file /mnt/diskX/Share/blah and will wipe it out before it has a chance to copy the data. Looks like the link didnt take - this is one of the official ones about manging steam games off the video page So this video at 7:45 is wrong? I have a hard time seeing his screen details but based upon his verbiage he is doing exactly what I am describing - and if I do it, it will cause issues?

Don't mix user shares and disk shares when moving stuff around, the background magic can easily turn from good magic to bad magic. +1 DON'T! I have no disk shares - but to move data from say Cache to my SATA drives you move them to a disk. i.e. like the steam video or am I missing something here? Source should always be /mnt/user/SHARE/*folder* but destination is /mnt/diskX/SHARE correct?

Great question, I have been thinking of the same thing. Lets say I have 2x500g SSD cache, 2x300g 15k raptors, and 2x2tb NAS disks. So if I wanted to simulate tiered storage I could: 1) create my GAME share on cache only and leave my 'hot' games there (tier1) 2) manually move my less played games to my raptors (tier2) with MC mv /mnt/user/games/*folder* to /mnt/diskX/games/folder (where diskX is one of my raptors) 3) manually move things I wish I had time to play but never do to my NAS disks (tier3) with MC mv /mnt/user/games/*folder* to /mnt/diskY/games/folder (where diskY is one of my NAS disks) Now if only I could figure out a way to spread data across both drives in a tier and simulate raid-1 a tad more. So move data to /mnt/game-tier2 and have it do it for me vs. diskX. Done too much san, old habits die hard. Sorry if I am way off in the weeds, but I am really enjoying this product.

It is more an issue of them not working at boot, once it is connected I have not seen issues, but on boot they tend to be disconnected and often require you to browse the folder. Sometimes even on a browse they give errors.

Thanks, I will try that. It is pretty obvious to me because of my desktop background. I created a folder on my shared data drive with background images for the desktop - I tend to set by background to a slideshow. Shutdown then boot - it often fails to load the backgrounds because of this disconnected-drive issue. Simple but seeing it fail on almost every boot. I will add the script and consider it "As good as it gets" for now.

While I don't see an option for this I was hoping there was a way to pass a share (i.e. w10_data) to a VM to remove the need to map the drive? I think I have all my issues resolved except my tower/shares not showing up in network neighborhood and my mapped drives being disconnected on boot. Not seen any other fixes so was hoping there was a way to pass the share from the hypervisor? Yes the mapped drives will work when I view the drive, but because they are not usable at boot I do have issues with things that depend on them at startup. Also if it is not possible is it maybe on the roadmap? Thanks in advance.

I still need to get another monitor with HDMI, but tested it on an ASUS VG248QE and it worked. So I would make sure you have only the HDMI cable connected for starters and the device set in the VM setup (its in my pic above). In my case the MSISupported was there under the PCI device already and I just had to set it to 1 from 0. http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/UnRAID_6/VM_Guest_Support#Enable_MSI_for_Interrupts_to_Fix_HDMI_Audio_Support

So I am moving off a synology running raid 10 and using crap NAS drives, so was hoping to gain some performance by spreading the data across the same drives vs. all my data going to one. I guess the term unraid just clicked for me. Might be overthinking it, but I think I will try most-free to get them all participating. For now I dont have much more than 1tb so I like the idea of it being more 1/3 each than all on one. Thanks

Ah, that makes sense. So is is reasonable to set my shares as most-free to make sure I get a good spread? And if I do is there any way to 'level' the data out without moving it around?

Wow, I would have never guessed that as a fix. Set it 16/16 and I am now at 8%. Thanks.

First time unraid user, wanted to replace a home NAS and get a new gaming system, so decided to kill two birds with one stone. The videos and documentation are great, I watched them all before starting then again as I completed the build. Unfortunately I have spent a few days trying to get some things working and have run out of ideas. 3rd one is my biggest concern, but here goes.... 1) Tower does not show in Network Neighborhood - I see it on my W7 and Mac systems so this seems to be a W10 issue. I can map drives by IP and if I run \\tower it opens and the populates the neighborhood. Seen a lot of W10 posts similar, but cant seem to find a fix. 2) Using shares as recommended, but noticing that all data seems to be put only on fist disk. Is this expected behavior or do I possibly have an issue in my setup? 3) Memory Utilization at ~90% at start and no processes seem to be using it. I have done poolman, etc, there is nothing using it that I can find and this is from a fresh boot. Created a second VM clean using documented steps and get the same result. System details: Unraid Plus / Windows 10 home Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 7 Intel Core I7-6700K G.Skill TridentZ Series 32GB Asus GeForce GTX 970 4GB STRIX 2 x Samsung 850 EVO 500g SSD (Cache) 1 x 3tb parity disk 3 x 2tb data disks System Info: VM Template: VM XML: <domain type='kvm' xmlns:qemu='http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0'> <name>RL-W10</name> <uuid>b29c08be-092d-e8c9-db2b-6a0783c8259b</uuid> <metadata> <vmtemplate name="Custom" icon="windows.png" os="windows"/> </metadata> <memory unit='KiB'>16777216</memory> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>2097152</currentMemory> <memoryBacking> <nosharepages/> <locked/> </memoryBacking> <vcpu placement='static'>6</vcpu> <cputune> <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='2'/> <vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='3'/> <vcpupin vcpu='2' cpuset='4'/> <vcpupin vcpu='3' cpuset='5'/> <vcpupin vcpu='4' cpuset='6'/> <vcpupin vcpu='5' cpuset='7'/> </cputune> <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-2.3'>hvm</type> </os> <features> <acpi/> <apic/> </features> <cpu mode='host-passthrough'> <topology sockets='1' cores='6' threads='1'/> </cpu> <clock offset='localtime'> <timer name='rtc' tickpolicy='catchup'/> <timer name='pit' tickpolicy='delay'/> <timer name='hpet' present='no'/> </clock> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>restart</on_crash> <devices> <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='writeback'/> <source file='/mnt/user/vdisks/RL-W10/vdisk1.img'/> <target dev='hdc' bus='virtio'/> <boot order='1'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/> </disk> <disk type='file' device='cdrom'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/> <source file='/mnt/user/ISOs/Windows-10.iso'/> <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/> <readonly/> <boot order='2'/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/> </disk> <disk type='file' device='cdrom'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/> <source file='/mnt/user/ISOs/virtio-win-0.1.102.iso'/> <target dev='hdb' bus='ide'/> <readonly/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='1'/> </disk> <controller type='usb' index='0'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x2'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'/> <controller type='ide' index='0'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x1'/> </controller> <controller type='virtio-serial' index='0'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> </controller> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='52:54:00:4e:cf:6f'/> <source bridge='br0'/> <model type='virtio'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/> </interface> <serial type='pty'> <target port='0'/> </serial> <console type='pty'> <target type='serial' port='0'/> </console> <channel type='unix'> <source mode='bind' path='/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/channel/target/RL-W10.org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/> <target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/> <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='1'/> </channel> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb' managed='yes'> <source> <vendor id='0x1532'/> <product id='0x0043'/> </source> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb' managed='yes'> <source> <vendor id='0x1532'/> <product id='0x011a'/> </source> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb' managed='yes'> <source> <vendor id='0x1b1c'/> <product id='0x0c04'/> </source> </hostdev> <memballoon model='virtio'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/> </memballoon> </devices> <qemu:commandline> <qemu:arg value='-device'/> <qemu:arg value='ioh3420,bus=pci.0,addr=1c.0,multifunction=on,port=2,chassis=1,id=root.1'/> <qemu:arg value='-device'/> <qemu:arg value='vfio-pci,host=01:00.0,bus=root.1,addr=00.0,multifunction=on,x-vga=on'/> <qemu:arg value='-device'/> <qemu:arg value='vfio-pci,host=01:00.1,bus=root.1,addr=00.1'/>- </qemu:commandline> </domain> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

I have the Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 7, but I had similar issues. Ok this is going to probably sound dumb, but I was not able to get consistent output to an old Dell monitor I have using an HDMI-DVI cable so I tried a second monitor (same cable) and it now works with no issues. May be worth a shot.