planetwilson

I've done this a few times now but recently my High Sierra refused to allow me to activate iMessage (only later I realised it was to do with the network card ordering mentioned below). I ended up just rebuilding the VM from scratch. The best guide I have found is here:- https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/an-idiots-guide-to-imessage.196827/ If you use a fresh VM then you need not do all the clearing of the library folders, otherwise clean out the ones mentioned in the article. Having a proper serial number and board UUID is also required, the guide takes you through it. You need one that Apple says is invalid as it just means it hasn't been registered yet (a good thing). Ensure if using an existing VM you have signed into iCloud with that you remove it from your list of devices via Find my device on the iCloud site. One thing is *really* important and that is that the ethernet connection it set as eth0. If you only have the virtual network adapter then it should be fine but if you have a wifi card as well for handoff then sometimes it can get mixed up. Also remember that using UI mode in unRAID causes manual edits to disappear from the XML. I sometimes forget this and then waste a few hours before realising. If you follow the steps in that article though it should be fine...

I had an RX480 which is very similar and it worked fine without any graphical artifacts. The biggest issue though was the reset bug with AMD cards. If you reboot the VM then the card doesn't re-initialize properly and you have to hard reset the host. It was a complete PITA. There are work arounds when using Windows VMs which involve using startup and shutdown scripts to try to get the card to reset correctly but I ever got them to work. Whatever small issues I had with Nvidia before that were nowhere near as annoying so I switched back to a 1060.

I had exactly the same symptom with both an nvidia and an amd card. I had two VM configs set up pointing to the same image though and realised they had different MAC/Ethernet addresses set up on the bridge adapter in the VM XML and wondered if that caused Windows to treat them as different adapters?

Already sold my RX480 and a 1060 is winging its way to me ... ready for a whole new bunch of problems Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I am abandoning the AMD card and going back to Nvidia. Whatever issues I had with that pale into comparison with this...

Did you ever get anything working with this or a more reliable way of passing through AMD cards?

So I tried to do what was I that thread but it doesn’t appear to work for me. I need to do a bit more investigation to determine whether my VM is actually calling those scripts, perhaps out some log lines in. Did tou you find an unraid reboot flushed the issue out or a full power off, wait, power on was needed?

Anyone found a solution for this yet?

Strangely I also had a sudden blank openvpn.vpn file after several months/years without any issues. Copied the new one as per above and all fine again. Odd though...

This video shows how Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You could try dumping your actual bios instead of a modified one? Just to see if it makes any difference? Think gridrunner shows it in one of his other videos Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Any info on what you ended up with in the end? Your X99 setup was pretty powerful...

So I upgraded from a GTX950 to an RX480 last week and saw this issue myself but not all the time. Just once, then I had to reboot and all was fine. Also seeing that after running the OSX VM for a few hours I sometimes get kernel grpahics errors and the entire VM will freeze for 5 seconds, be okay for 2 seconds, freeze for 5 seconds and so on. It's okay if I reboot the VM.

Well mine seems okay again now. According to Apple’s support doc they support 480s just fine. So the SMBIOS I had assumed had to be the iMac one from gridrunners video for some reason. You can just choose what you want? What advantages are there to that? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

spoke too soon...got system pauses happening now with some kernel errors in the console log as well to do with ioacceleventmachine2 ? 1 step forward, 2 steps back

yes it was, no rom dumps were needed. I don't have any onboard graphics, this is the only card in the system and working on OSX and Windows perfectly. Well actually there is no HDMI sound but I don't think that is this card as my previous GTX950 started doing that recently and I've read a lot of people saying the same thing. I use some USB based external speakers so not an issue for me until it gets fixed.

So in the end I have upgraded from the GTX 950 to a Sapphire Nitro+ RX480 8GB. The whole thing is now running much better.

I think I know the answer to my question but here goes...I am trying to work out the best bang for buck in upgrading my unRAID server for VMs. I currently have a 14 core E5-2695 v3 Xeon with a 2.3GHz base clock. I could sell that and replace with an E5-2687W v4 12 core but a base clock of 3.0GHz, prob cost about 250-300 overall as an upgrade. I think the v4s are pretty power efficient so wouldn’t expect it to use much more idling than my v3. Alternatively I could upgrade my GTX950 with an ATI RX580 (4GB or 8GB unsure whether worth going for for maybe 150-200 after selling the old card. Most of the time the CPU sits idle as it is acting as a server but then I also play games on it or use a Mac desktop as well both of which would benefit from an upgrade.(I think the 580 is pretty well supported on Mac) I am after some better game performance as well as desktop performance but I suspect the CPU gains are probably marginal compared to the over 2x increase if I went GPU upgrade... Any advice? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Well mine is working again after I tried an earlier dumped bios instead of the more recent one I had. Now wondering if the more recent one was a patched one form the website GridRunner talks about in his videos and the proper dumped one is fine.

I am getting this as well. My Windows VM which has worked for months has recently stopped working with a code 43. Tried uninstalling the drivers and reinstalling them. I noticed that my VM config now said HyperV was on (no idea what it said previously, was this changed in a recent unRAID release?) so I turned that off but still not working. I am using a bios dump that I have used previously with no issues.

I am using this card https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01MDLG51U/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 The NVMe drive has nothing else running off it, dockers are all on the cache drive which is a normal HDD. I have also just now tried emulator pinning to first pair and assigning the last 8 pairs to the VM and it does seem to have improved things. Still not amazing though considering the resources it has. I'll do a little more digging....

I have tried with a topology and without and still find things are a bit sluggish. I wanted to pass 8 physical cores (16 HT) to the VM from a total of 14 that I have, leaving the remaining ones to unRAID. Just wondering if there is something else I can try to make things snappier? I am passing through a usb3 PCI card as well as the recommended wifi/BT card and they are all working perfectly with handoff etc. Also passing through a GTX950 which is working fine as well with nvidia drivers. The VM itself is running off a Samsung NVMe drive so I would have thought it should all run nicely. 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</serial> <console type='pty'> <target type='serial' port='0'/> </console> <channel type='unix'> <target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/> <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='1'/> </channel> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/> <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </source> <rom file='/mnt/disks/VMNVM/gtx950.rom'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x03' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x00' function='0x1'/> </source> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x04' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x06' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </source> <address 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This is odd as I suddenly wondered if I was seeing similar issues with my OSX VM. Basicaly it will boot with the graphic card once after a reboot but not again after that...

I know that if you use the EFI mounter to have a look in the Clover folder there is a theme folder somewhere. You can just remove the xmas theme and you should be left with the default one. Pretty sure there will be a config for the other thing but not had time to check sorry.

This looks interesting, any source articles or info as to what each of those does. Any idea how much improvement it makes?