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Oh ! Good to know it's not just me. I'm sure they'll get to fixing that little bug soon then. The devices seem to run fine as my VM is starting fine from the SSD & i'm copying files now to the unattached 2tb drive at full gigabit speed

I upgraded with no game breaking issues so far. 1 small bug or weird issue I notice is the free & used space of unassigned devices. I'm sure my 2tb drives don't have 2 Petabytes of free space. or my 120gb ssd have 121 TB of free space. Any idea's?

You are right, I actually just double checked and I too have 2 USB controllers on my motherboard, both in their own IOMMU group so technically I could use one of those. Might be something I can keep in mind if I ever rebuild my server, but since I use it daily I won't fix what isn't broken Oh & Msiutil did help, but then I had a 3.5MM from my monitor going to my speakers, and if/when i turned my monitor off my speakers would give a loud "POP" when it disconnected, and a loud pop when it connected when I turned my screen on ugh oh ! and I did notice... "Audio device: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family HD Audio Controller" is also in its own group... I guess I could have used motherboard audio too?

I never got sound to work in a correct manner, the way I fixed it was by passing through a USB PCI card. That way I got real direct USB ports for my VM & I just added a small usb sound card. Works great. As for the stuttering, where are you storing your vm disk? Make sure it's NOT on the array as parity could really damage your performence in windows

Successful update from 6.5.1 to 6.6.0 RC1 on my test server. It did start a parity check right after the restart.

same here, happy to hear it's nothing on my end ^^

I also found these items. But when I noticed it was "included" in unraid I was guessing there would be like a "switch" or something somewhere. Always better to do something that's possible in the settings compared to running scripts Going to try it the spaceinvador way and see what happens

According to This was added in 6.2 ? Where do I find the option to enable this? I require this to run android inside a windows VM.

<SOLVED> I was able to get the VM up again by using the option : "Enable PCIe ACS Override:" in the VM settings. Strange, i don't think I had this setting enabled before the update </SOLVED> Just updated and my VM won't start up correctly. Stays on the bios bootup for ages and eventually fails to boot. It then reboots and tries to get into windows "preparing automatic repair" but is unable to continue update: It starts fine when I remove my videocard from the config and run via VNC. Nvidia card on INTEL cpu, worked fine before patch Even got a crash in the log DR0=0000000000000000 DR1=0000000000000000 DR2=0000000000000000 DR3=0000000000000000 DR6=00000000ffff0ff0 DR7=0000000000000400 EFER=0000000000000800 FCW=037f FSW=0000 [ST=0] FTW=00 MXCSR=00001f80 FPR0=0000000000000000 0000 FPR1=0000000000000000 0000 FPR2=0000000000000000 0000 FPR3=0000000000000000 0000 FPR4=0000000000000000 0000 FPR5=0000000000000000 0000 FPR6=0000000000000000 0000 FPR7=0000000000000000 0000 XMM00=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM01=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM02=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM03=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM04=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM05=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM06=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM07=00000000000000000000000000000000 CPU #2: EAX=00000640 EBX=00000000 ECX=00000000 EDX=00000000 ESI=bfe6a019 EDI=bf49f711 EBP=bfde2491 ESP=bfe6af00 EIP=bfe6a05d EFL=00000097 [--S-APC] CPL=0 II=0 A20=1 SMM=0 HLT=1 ES =0030 00000000 ffffffff 00c09300 DPL=0 DS [-WA] CS =0010 00000000 ffffffff 00c09f00 DPL=0 CS32 [CRA] SS =0030 00000000 ffffffff 00c09300 DPL=0 DS [-WA] DS =0030 00000000 ffffffff 00c09300 DPL=0 DS [-WA] FS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300 DPL=0 DS16 [-WA] GS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300 DPL=0 DS16 [-WA] LDT=0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008200 DPL=0 LDT TR =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008b00 DPL=0 TSS32-busy GDT= bfe66698 00000047 IDT= bf8ab018 00000fff CR0=00010033 CR2=00000000 CR3=bfe78000 CR4=00000640 DR0=0000000000000000 DR1=0000000000000000 DR2=0000000000000000 DR3=0000000000000000 DR6=00000000ffff0ff0 DR7=0000000000000400 EFER=0000000000000800 FCW=037f FSW=0000 [ST=0] FTW=00 MXCSR=00001f80 FPR0=0000000000000000 0000 FPR1=0000000000000000 0000 FPR2=0000000000000000 0000 FPR3=0000000000000000 0000 FPR4=0000000000000000 0000 FPR5=0000000000000000 0000 FPR6=0000000000000000 0000 FPR7=0000000000000000 0000 XMM00=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM01=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM02=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM03=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM04=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM05=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM06=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM07=00000000000000000000000000000000 2018-02-03 19:00:59.191+0000: shutting down, reason=crashed

I'd say go to at least the I7 8700, 2 extra cores will help out a lot. Depending on how basic the desktop VM's have to be I do suggest adding more ram.

I'm sure this is a basic question but i didn't find an answer in the manual. Is it possible to confine the search? for example. I want to search for dockers that have TOR build in. But when I look for tor I also get torrent, bittorent, distributors,editor,....

Aaah good to hear ! an AIO does seem to be a good idea

So strange you are having issues with chrome, any chance you can keep an eye on taskmanager to check out if there is any "strange" peak in some sort of metric? cpu/ram/diskIO/... I've never noticed that on my VM. Have you done any validation on your ram? (memtest for X hours/days ?) it's something I plan to do on my new hardware once I get it.

I understand that. But it's worth trying ! I'd take off the core and maybe run a benchmark, to be honest, you might not even notice... I'm using 3 cores of an I5 and i was surprised how little difference it made in game, you can always switch back, it's just for troubleshooting. As for the core pinning, check out this forum topic. It's worth it and not that much trouble And yeah leaving the SSD's OUTSIDE the array would make the vm's work very well, but you do loose some redundancy I guess and yes 128gb is a little small for cache

I'm not expert. But things I would try. Leave out 1 core for unraid (core0) Have you checked the core pinning to make sure you are giving the vm's the correct cores (not entirely sure if this is important on AMD). Maybe consider giving each VM direct acces to 1 of the SSD's and use the m.2 as the cache ?

Oh nice to hear about that ! I'd be open to trying it. Can you give me an overview of your hardware? are you on Treadripper or ryzen? I don't think the ram speed (2933 vs 3200) would make that much of a difference. But the ability to run ECC might be nice, are you running ECC? I consider myself a geek and I'm learning a lot about unraid but I'm not sure what you are on about with the ACS downstream + multifunction. What is that? Thanks for the feedback !

I've read a mix of reports on the ECC memory. Nothing in my build is mission critical and the data that is important is backed up and/or on the cloud as well so I think i'll be okay. I will be doing a long memtest & multiple passes of preclear on any new drive ! thanks for that suggestion !

Hi guys ! Currently I'm running unraid on my I5 4690k. Running plex, a bunch of docker containers and a gaming VM. Everything works pretty decent... Until someone tries to watch plex(transcoding) while i'm gaming... So i'm planning this new build. You can find the PC part picker here: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/coldfirebe/saved/dKVGf7 The server will be used for : Data storage Plex (2 transcodes max, usually less) A bunch of docker containers (home automation & torrenting) My main VM with GPU passthrough (work + gaming) on 90-100% of the time My gf's VM with GPU passthrough (gaming). Won't be on a lot... we are talking a few days a month. For CPU I wanted to go with the new intel 8700k. It has a good core count and is well priced. Ryzen was an option but due to all the iommu/gpu passthrough.... other issues I wanted to go with Intel. I added the H100 to keep the I7 cool. I hear it can get pretty toasty I'm planning on starting with 32gb of ram, possibly going to 64 later, depending on how often my GF actually uses the gaming VM. The motherboard i'm looking at is the Asrock Z370 Extreme4. It has everything I need in terms of PCI, 8 sata,.... As for storage I'm going to add 2 new 8TB wd RED's, 1 for parity and then 1 8TB + 3TB + 3TB for data storage. I have another unraid server (just storage) for backup so I don't really think a 2nd parity drive is required (+ all my high important work files are backed up to the cloud as well) I currently have a 480gb SSD I will be using for cache and a 240 GB SSD i will be using directly (unassigned devices) for my VM. My gf will probably also get a dedicated 120 gb SSD for her VM. The 2 graphics card in the pcpartpicker are placeholders. I currently have 2 nvidia cards , a 970 & a..760 I think... Still fine for the games we run atm. For the case I'm going with the R5. I currently have an R4 but with only 1 drive cage... so it's a bit of a pain... The R5 has room for 8 drives & 2 SSD's. Enough clearance on the top for the H100. I've been wondering a bit about the powersupply, I was thinking of reusing my 650 w but I think I need a little more headroom, and upgrading to a 80 plus titanium is probebly worth it for a server that's powered on most of the time. I'm looking for feedback ! Maybe I have to add a 2nd cache drive to keep my appdata safe... Not entirely sure about it... So if you have suggestions or comments, let me know !

For some reason I had the (possibly/probably dumb) idea that APCUPSP was the same as NUT. Got it up and running ! Thanks !

Hi, I just connected my UPS to my server. It uses a USB connection. According to this page the UPS should be supported by APCUPSD using the blazer_usb driver http://networkupstools.org/ddl/Sweex/INTELLIGENT_UPS_1500VA_P220.html Currently i'm getting Lost communication with USB cable & type set to USB. According to the lsusb it's on Bus 003 Device 006: ID 0665:5161 Cypress Semiconductor USB to Serial, I've included the details. Any help would be appreciated

Ok great ! i'll give it a try and report back if I see any changes.

Good point ! thanks, i missed that. I checked the recovery partition using a partition manager (by easeUS) and no issues were found. I also have an extra vdisk (NTFS) inside my VM. But unraid doesn't see that as an NTFS filesystem so i doubt that could involved. I must admit the SSD running windows is a bit older. Is there any way to check out how the ssd is doing health wise?

The only ntfs disk i have in a ssd i use for a windows vm (directly to the disk). So i ran chkdsk in windows(vm) and it didn't come up with any issues

Hi, I was checking my log files and notices a lot of entries stating: and this goes on for a while. Does anyone have any idea what could cause this? I didn't notice anything strange with the server (well I do sometimes get audio hickups in VM's, im kinda pushing my CPU and when it maxes out i get a few small glitches) Included are my diagnostic files. Any advice/explanation of what these log entries are about would be nice ! nas-diagnostics-20171001-1624.zip