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Well I guess this settles it quite well. Thanks @JorgeB Are there any gimmics or tricks I should know? Since this is not a raid card, I should see drives just as they were connected to mobo, correct? This said 9300 should work with Windows 10 as well, if I decide not to go unraid I guess.

Hello mates I have previously played around with Unraid on 2players 1PC -style setup. I have been running bare metal for a while, since things went sideways with previous player two. I have been thinking new Unraid for a while, but now I managed to snag some SAS SSDs, 3.84TB for ~50$ each, total of 8 drives. Mentioned here are couple of SAS controllers recommended. Does anyone happen to have personal experience with LSI 9300-8i for example? Do they work plug and play in unraid?

Originally yeah. But since I "found the secret" I put usb controller directly as I have enough controllers to passtrough for two VM and keep one for host where unraid usb is If you have enough available I agree it's better to use the onboard controllers if you manage to pass it through. If I am correct, there were five onboard controllers, 2 different for usb3 in I/O, one for usb2 on I/O, one for front usb3 connector and one for two usb2 mobo connectors as it showed total of six when pcie usb card was mounted. Anyway, thanks for tips and guide. About VM crashing, I might just remove it and make a new, there isn't really anything yet. Or just remove vm and use the disks when creating new. There where few posts to look similiar cases too. I'll report here if I encounter more problems passing trough rest of the controllers I intented : )

Originally yeah. But since I "found the secret" I put usb controller directly as I have enough controllers to passtrough for two VM and keep one for host where unraid usb is

Section 6. on first page. I know I want to passtrough all usb slots in bus 7 and 9. readlink /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb7 and readlink /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb9 Now. There are multiple 0000:00:00.0 format sequences. From first page I made out that only last part, in latter case 0000:0f:00.0 counts here. So, if I wish to passtrough all usb ports in bus9 I just copy this in my xml: <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x0f' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </source> </hostdev> and it should do the trick? E: worked, did it with here not mentioned controller as these were ment to "VM1" but VM2 did work, even after removing and replugging usb device. Great! I try same tomorrow with ports mentioned here for VM1. unraid just crashed upon exiting VM... Well, one step at the time. Thanks.

<hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </source> </hostdev> Okay so, here is the problem. How do I figure a) adress domain b) slot c) function? At least I figured out which usb port goes by which bus and where unRAID is so I got that going for me, which is nice.

Okay. I'll try out it then. Seperate pcie usb card should go with same method as mobo controllers?

Hello. As a new user without previous Linux experience this problem comes little hard. Could it be possible to do this in (web)GUI in xml-editor? I have Rampage IV BE as mobo and in addition seperate usb3 pcie card. Id like to dedicate pcie-card (2 ports+ 2ports in front) to one VM and few ports to second VM. Could it be possible to find number of usb controllers in GUI and then proceed editing XML for each VM?