planetwilson

Okay great thanks, I have managed to switch out the clover EFI folder for opencore and it boots at least, although my VNC keyboard doesn't work yet...I'll spend some time reading up around it and how to configure stuff like serial numbers etc. Thanks.

I have a working MacOS VM running with unRAID being used as a desktop and it is great. I have iMessage, full iCloud, Radeon RX570 passsthrough all working thanks to SpaceInvader's brilliant Macinabox docker to get things going. Reading around as I haven't looked at Mac VMs for some time there seems to be a move away from Clover to Opencore these days. I am not sure what advantages that brings though - is it worth moving to it, what would I gain? One thing I am interested in is making sure that the VM is using all the latest CPU capabilities to the full. I am currently in Penryn mode in my XML and as I understand there are a lot of potential performance gains to be had by implementing something newer. At this point though I don't know if I can simply pass through my 8th gen i5 and it should work seamlessly or I need to do something else? and whether this has to do with opencore or not?!

So I have an RX570 and a Samsung PM951 SSD. I have Windows installed to the NVME drive with VNC just fine. It boots, no issues. If I passthrough the AMD card - nothing. I also have a Windows VM based on an image file - I can pass the AMD card to that just fine. Both VMs are the same Q35 chipset and Seabios set on them. I just can’t get the graphics passthrough to work at the same time as the NVME. Both devices are completely separate in terms of IOMMU groupings in system devices. Host machine is set to UEFI (not sure if this matters) Any ideas?

Did you ever get this working? I have the same issue, I have a Win 10 install running on an NVMe passed through to the VM. With VNC it works fine, with my Radeon RX570 passed through I just get a UEFI shell. My unraid is running in UEFI mode.

Okay I feel pretty stupid now. Checking the key values I can see I never managed to generate a prehared key. Once I did that it all started working. I tried with NAT off and it worked for a few secods then stopped even though I have a static route in place. With Nat on it just works so I'll just stick with that as I haveno dockers with custom IPs running anyway.

No I am experiencing the same issue on a Mac and on an iPhone as well. Are there any route settings I need to set within unRaid as well or just on my router?

I can ping the unraid box and I can ping the router/DNS address. I have tried setting 8.8.8.8 on the client and that doesn't work either.

I am struggling with this. I am trying to get a tunnel so all of my traffic goes through Wireguard. I am connecting okay and can access my unRaid server and other servers on the main LAN just fine. I can't access any internet sites though. It feels like a DNS issue but I think I have it all setup as I should. uNRAID IP: 192.168.44.10 Router/DNS : 192.168.44.254 Wireguard config:- Router static route:-

I am finding that unless I open up the shares so they are secure as opposed to private - i.e. guest has read only then the Mac won't connect to them? I get the dreaded "The operation can't be completed because the original item for 'myfolder' can't be found" Anyone got any ideas how to get SMB working correctly on Macs. I've got a few smart devices in the home now and would like to tighten up security on my shares so you can't read what is on them without username and password.

Happy birthday unraid, love the product.

I have a super powerful CPU, mobo and RAM bundle here that would make a great home server, I have used it as an unRAID server for about 18 months or so but am downsizing. I have used this rig for running unRAID with dockers and VMs. When running VMs you can do GPU pass-through and I've had really powerful multi-core Mac Pro desktop running as well as a gaming VM with a GTX 1060 passed through. It's an absolute beast. Great for running multiple VMs as a home lab. ASRock X99 Extreme 6 ATX motherboard Intel Xeon E5-2695 v3 14 core/28 thread CPU 80GB !! (5 x 16GB, 4 Crucial and 1 SKHynix) of ECC DDR4 2133 memory Motherboard specs:- On-board dual LAN Supports up to 128GB RAM Ultra M.2 slot 8 RAM Slots Intel Xeon E5-2695 v3 14 core/28 thread CPU. This is a late stepping engineering sample indistinguishable from retail. The v3 Xeons had a "bug" from Intel where using patched Microcode you can bypass the usual turbo boost restrictions to have all the cores running at single core boost speeds. In this case you can have all 14 cores running at 3.3GHz. The ASRock motherboard already has the patched BIOS in place so all you have to do it plug and play. If you wish to go back to stock, simply update the motherboard with the latest BIOS from ASRock from within the BIOS itself. I will supply the patched BIOS anyway so you can always go back. As long as you have a decent CPU cooler then it is fine. even at full tilt my CPU never went over 60 deg. Although I did this for interest sake, my server sat idling 99% of the time anyway so a bit of a waste for me Here is the Anandtech thread where it was all discovered and people built the mods:- Page 3 - What controls Turbo Core in Xeons? Also here is an explanation of all core vs single core boosts : Actual CPU Speeds - What You See Is Not Always What You Get I am after £500 - looking at current prices on ebay especially RAM which is crazy right now, this lot is worth about £800 or so, so I think this is a good price.

Okay did a bit of digging and found this thread:- https://askubuntu.com/questions/1033985/kvm-high-host-cpu-load-after-upgrading-vm-to-windows-10-1803 <clock offset='localtime'> <timer name='rtc' tickpolicy='catchup'/> <timer name='pit' tickpolicy='delay'/> <timer name='hpet' present='yes'/> <timer name='hypervclock' present='yes'/> </clock> All much better now, apparently the hpet line is important

I also get a fair amount of CPU usage when all I have is a single VM suspended? If I actually stop it properly then the CPU drops off. I thought suspended meant basically hibernate? UPDATE: okay read the redhat docs on this and suspend just suspends in RAM aso I could see how some CPU is used if qemu is still running in the background. I need to set my scripts to do a managedsave instead. I still have the initial issue though. Given that CPU usage is still high when suspended I think I must have a lot of ambient CPU use by qemu itself for some reason.

This might be related to the fact I am using a Dell XPS touch screen device. However I found that rather than try to use the popup VNC window, I copy the URL from the address bar of the popup and open a new tab with that URL then the cursor starts working again. Might be useful for someone.

I have recently downsized my unRAID server to an i5 8400 6 core CPU. However I noticed that when running a Windows 10 VM, the CPU usage seems quite high. If I use "top" in an unRAID ssh session it shows qemu-system-x86 as the highest consumption. On the dashboard I can see one of the cores running at 45% and the others moving around 5-15% up and down. The actual VM is doing nothing and task manager in Windows 10 shows 99% idle. My previous 14 core Xeon never used to do this at all, if the WIndows VM was idle then so was the server largely. Any ideas?

My current setup is in my signature but I am not utilising it as much as I thought I would. I want to downgrade to a more power efficient rig, sell the graphics card and just run dockers and the odd VM. My current system idles at about 100W. So as I see it my approaches are (1) just change my 14 core E5 processor to a lower power v4 one and see if I can tweak BIOS settings etc, perhaps implement sleep hours during the night and so on to lower general running costs. Alternatively (2) replace the motherboard, CPU and memory with something else like a modern Pentium Gold or 8th gen i3 (for Plex transcoding) I am based in the UK and pay about 14p per kW/h. Any ideas? I don't think I can re-use my memory with a 1151 motherboard and i3 so would need to sell that and buy some more. My E5 is one where I have BIOS unlocked it to get an all-core boost of 3.2GHz across all 14 cores. It would be nice to have hardware transcoding as I share my library with friends and it often transcodes.

Yes I have just juggled things about with my existing storage for now and have passed it through just like any other PCI device. Seems to work very well.

I am trying to work out the best way to expand my space for VMs. I have a single M.2 slot currently with a 1TB NVMe drive, I can swap that out for a 2TB but would need to use images for everything. Alternatively I could just purchase the extra 2TB for everything and use a PCI adapter (although that seems fraught with something called m-key and b-key?!) but for my gaming VM use pass-through on the 1TB. How much performance difference would there be? I am running out of space for an extra PCI card, ideally a combo USB-3/M.2 card to host the 2TB would be best but struggling to find one which support NVMe drives.

Thanks for the hint but it didn't resolve it for me. Was that a mouse theme you chose or a specific mouse state you increased?

On a Windows 10 client machine using VNC in the browser, my mouse cursor always disappears making it really hard to use VNC. Anyone else get this?

I just tried moving from the limetech image to this one and once I'd fiddled to match the config folder structure it all worked fine. However I'm getting the odd transcoding error viewing a film on an iPad that doesn't happen with the limetech one? Any ideas as to what the cause could be?

I have a strange issue, I have rclone setup for OneDrive as well as Dropbox. Both appear to work correctly, I can SSH to my server and see files in both. I have a sabnzbd script which processes certain downloads and moves them into a folder in DropBox which works fine. As soon as I change the location to the same named folder in OneDrive is fails with permission denied. Not too sure how to go about diagnosing it. Looking at the detailed ls output they are both showing drwxrwxrwx

Sorry it sits under features Mine looks like this <features> <acpi/> <apic/> <hyperv> <relaxed state='on'/> <vapic state='on'/> <spinlocks state='on' retries='8191'/> <vendor_id state='on' value='123456789ab '/> </hyperv> <kvm> <hidden state='on'/> </kvm> <vmport state='off'/> </features>

Same here, but I have managed to get myself up and running. I went down the patching the drivers route but it didn't work as you have to stay in test signing mode and it breaks games. So you need to stop Windows automatically updating drivers via the Advanced system properties hardware tab. Then I ran the driver uninstaller to clean out all traces of previous drivers. https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html Then find driver version 378.78 and install that as well as set this <kvm> <hidden state='on'/> </kvm> Not sure what worked but I am up and running again. The only fly in the ointment might be whether the 1070 of yours is supported by those drivers. Although given it has been working flawlessly it does seem strange it suddenly broke without you changing the drivers in the VM...