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Not enough context... Need more info... Have a bit-torrent docker container running? 20 VM's running without virus scan or firewall? Accidentally put a bandwidth testing script on autoloop? Too many possibilities at this point...

I suspect this as well as several other issues I was having with my similar VM is related to MSI interrupts... This tool will help: https://www.mediafire.com/file/2ev4730cudn25ut/MSI_util.exe or adjust the individual drivers settings with Regedit...

The "ssh Plugin" helped me with this, install via community applications...

This is already part of the script, which I discovered by accident... Just name the image file with anything other then .img at the end... (It already skips the backup of the .iso files this way) This is not a plugin, just a shell script... Either run it manually from the command line, or watch these videos: Backing up and restoring VMs in unRAID manually Backing up VMs in unRAID automatically

I like this script, but I had to modify my copy because I have used Virt-Manager to switch my VM to using the VirtIO-SCSI driver instead, this allows for the discard="unmap" option to be set on the storage, making it self-shrinking... This makes the files sparse, but makes the VM backup take way longer than needed with this script... I used the information found here: https://serverfault.com/questions/665335/what-is-fastest-way-to-copy-a-sparse-file-what-method-results-in-the-smallest-f to modify my copy of the script to run significantly faster... Perhaps this script could be modified to either detect the "unmap" option, or allow for a customizable switch setting to change the sparse file copy procedure..? Also an option to use some minimal inline compression on the backup? gZip or PigZip?

I am running a Windows 10 Pro Gaming VM with nVidia pass-through Guest on top of an unRaid 6.4.1 drive pool, and have got most of the kinks worked out of the system... I have a Steam library that is approaching 2.25 TB, and have it working just fine in the Win10 VM as a SMB share... However I have several applications that refuse to deal with games being installed a windows network share instead of local storage (the profile software for my gaming controller, as well as the "ShadowPlay" gaming sharing functionality for my nVidia cards)... I have come to the conclusion that I need to change the way windows sees the pool to being a local block device somehow (So I can give full "NTFS Like" functionality to the guest VM)... I have researched KVM/QEMU to see what can be done with allowing some sort of storage pass-through, and while this looks like it would be fairly trivial if I was running a Linux-Like guest of some sort, it appears from my research to just not be possible with a Windows guest without converting to exposing the array as a Raw Block device/files in some way... So now I am trying to research the best way to do that... Ideal solution needs to be able to: 1. Show up as local storage in the Windows VM... (I have already tried to change to "Client for NFS" in Windows, didn't help... As far as I can tell no network protocol of any sort is going to work) 2. Allow for easy migration between VM's, preferably allowing some sort of sharing between multiple VM's... But simultaneous access is not a requirement... 3. Allow for mounting outside of a VM if needed... (While this would mostly be for my games library, this solution would also be used for things like local copies of OneDrive/GoogleDrive storage and backup) iSCSI doesn't appear to be the ideal solution, since it requires something like an OpenFiler VM to be setup and launched before the Windows VM, and would screw up the Windows VM if it was ever shutdown before the Client VM's... Not to mention the One-Client-At-A-Time nature of iSCSI... I am currently thinking it will come down to setting a LVM Storage Pool and exposing it to the QEMU VM in some fashion with the setup found here: https://libvirt.org/storage.html#StorageBackendLogical By createing a number of maybe 100GB Raw Files, and exposing them to the Windows Guest as one giant volume, having QEMU running the LVM side for the VM... But that still limits it down to one quest at a time... Plus it sounds like it would not be easy/trivial to adjust storage sizes on such a pool... I am open to suggestions to a better solution, I can't be the only one who has needed a local block device in a Windows VM before, but my Google Fu is coming up short on this issue...

I also am getting this error, unRaid 6.4.1 appears to not add the TPM to the dev folder, and so there is nothing to pass through into the VM...

I must admit I am at the knowing just enough to be dangerous point in my self training on this matter... But that link I put above seems to have more info on it... Apparently XFS and a few others have an "acl_xattr" option built in, and the settings just toggle allowing Samba to expose that part of the file system to Windows... When I did enable it, it seemed to allow the normal Windows security settings window to mostly work as intended, but some of the settings would not stick (owner to root folders of the share for instance), and most importantly, it still gave that error when I tried too move the user folder over... However there is a fairly high possibility that I am screwing up the Windows side of it, and that the Linux/Samba/XFS is working correctly... And may even be working correctly without these changes... More investigation is needed... Windows OneDrive and GoogleDrive folders didn't like being on the share even when I manually assigned them... My current work around is to create a second/data drive image just for them, then use the built in windows "Known Folders" move tool to move most of the user folders to the Samba share... Less than ideal, and still trying to figure out a better option...

I now realize this was the wrong question for my issue, moved to a better question here: I am talking about the smb.conf settings: vfs objects = acl_xattr map acl inherit = yes store dos attributes = yes Which I found here: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_a_Share_Using_Windows_ACLs Does this break unRaid in some way if enabled? Is there a reason it doesn't have a GUI option to enable it? I am trying to setup unRaid to be a Windows Home folder server, but without AD or anything... When I attempt to set the folder as the User profile and home folder for a Windows user I get a "Security settings could not be applied to the shared folder" style error message... Is this normal for linking Windows to a Linux SMB? I consider myself above average on Windows knowledge, but still learning when it comes to Linux as well as security settings in general... I am mainly shooting to move user folders and other data off the KVM/QEMU Windows VM, and only have bare minimum necessary Windows files remaining on the VM vdisk, but with the user folders still being able to set all their permissions they need like it was a native disk... I prefer to not simply add a second vdisk just for user shares, since that is not easily accessed from other clients... Let me know if I am going about this the wrong way to accomplish that... Your help is appreciated in advance, and thank you

That worked perfectly! Thank you!

While doing research for setting up Unraid, I saw a command switch for setting up the cache drive as a software RAID-0... But I didn't save it, and now my Google-Foo is coming up short on finding it again... I have a Asus ROG z270 board and am trying to use Unraid to merge my ancient NAS and my gaming box, to boost the general speed of the NAS and improve write performance from the Windows Gaming VM... I have already got 2 Samsung 960 EVO m.2 drives installed and would like to use them as a RAID-0 cache drive as well as the storage location for the main drive on the Windows gaming VM... I have already switched the BIOS to use AHCI instead of Intel RST, and cleared the drives for Unraid... The default GUI only allows them to be used as RAID-1, and I don't know the commands that Unraid supports to create an software RAID-0 that can then be added to the Unraid GUI... I appreciate your help in advance :-D

Actually, I see that they are already fixing this in the current Release Candidate... Well done Limeware for fixing problems before I even ask for the fix :-P

I am an above average computer user, but still learning Linux... I am trying to remove the domain portion of the hostname... In otherwords, some boxes I have work with "tower" and others for some reason need "tower.local"... I want to be able to access unraid with just "tower" in all situations and not have to figure out if the box I am on needs to use "tower.local" instead... I can't seem to find a setting that relates to this in the Ident Settings, or anywhere else, and my google-foo is coming up short...