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hmm that's a good point. they would be on the same drive. different partitions but probably slow. i'll keep looking around then. thanks for the help.

I've had bad experiences with Hyper-V in the past and would prefer to avoid it. This computer won't be running Windows anyways. Proxmox is another option I might investigate but it looks less user-friendly than ESXi.

I want to run a hypervisor on a laptop. From my experience unRaid is the easiest one to setup, easiest to manage, is very flexible, and I already have other machines running it. If I can't get it running on this laptop then I'll use ESXi.

The machine is a laptop with only one USB port which I don't want to block (nor do I want to carry a hub everywhere since it's a laptop). I don't want to have to keep a USB stick in the computer every time I boot it up.

Can someone please give me step-by-step instructions for how I would install unRaid without a USB drive? If this is not possible then I am going to have to buy a different product.

Hooray! I got it working! That last EFI notice was the clue I needed. I then went to edit VM and read the tooltip which said the BIOS type couldn't be adjusted on existing VMs. I recreated the VM, selected the SEABIOS instead of the OVMF and now the VM is running well.

I think the results are the same as last time, but this time I happened to catch an extra message before it went to the shell. When it starts I see "Boot failed. EFI Misc Device." After that there is a mapping table message and I end up with a shell. Hmm... it looks a bit like this https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=45065

What do I do with it after that? How do I run the qemu comand?

Anyone pleases help me figure out how to import an existing disk into a VM in unraid.

Is there a tutorial somewhere? I tried using the vdi with a linux template but when I VNC into it I get a black screen with shell on it. The XML from the template looked like this: <domain type='kvm'> <name>t2</name> <uuid>4668687c-67e9-ab4d-7c9a-a05fecc905cd</uuid> <metadata> <vmtemplate xmlns="unraid" name="Ubuntu" icon="ubuntu.png" os="ubuntu"/> </metadata> <memory unit='KiB'>1048576</memory> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>1048576</currentMemory> <memoryBacking> <nosharepages/> </memoryBacking> <vcpu placement='static'>1</vcpu> <cputune> <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='0'/> </cputune> <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-q35-2.5'>hvm</type> <loader readonly='yes' type='pflash'>/usr/share/qemu/ovmf-x64/OVMF_CODE-pure-efi.fd</loader> <nvram>/etc/libvirt/qemu/nvram/4668687c-67e9-ab4d-7c9a-a05fecc905cd_VARS-pure-efi.fd</nvram> </os> <features> <acpi/> <apic/> </features> <cpu mode='host-passthrough'> <topology sockets='1' cores='1' threads='1'/> </cpu> <clock offset='utc'> <timer name='rtc' tickpolicy='catchup'/> <timer name='pit' tickpolicy='delay'/> <timer name='hpet' present='no'/> </clock> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>restart</on_crash> <devices> <emulator>/usr/local/sbin/qemu</emulator> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='vdi' cache='writeback'/> <source file='/mnt/user/domains/t2.vdi'/> <target dev='hdc' bus='virtio'/> <boot order='1'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> </disk> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-ehci1'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x7'/> </controller> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci1'> <master startport='0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0' multifunction='on'/> </controller> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci2'> <master startport='2'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x1'/> </controller> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci3'> <master startport='4'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x2'/> </controller> <controller type='sata' index='0'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x1f' function='0x2'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pcie-root'/> <controller type='pci' index='1' model='dmi-to-pci-bridge'> <model name='i82801b11-bridge'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x1e' function='0x0'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='2' model='pci-bridge'> <model name='pci-bridge'/> <target chassisNr='2'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x01' slot='0x01' function='0x0'/> </controller> <controller type='virtio-serial' index='0'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/> </controller> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='52:54:00:6e:2a:55'/> <source bridge='br0'/> <model type='virtio'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x01' function='0x0'/> </interface> <serial type='pty'> <target port='0'/> </serial> <console type='pty'> <target type='serial' port='0'/> </console> <channel type='unix'> <source mode='connect'/> <target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/> <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='1'/> </channel> <input type='tablet' bus='usb'/> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/> <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/> <graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes' websocket='-1' listen='0.0.0.0' keymap='en-us'> <listen type='address' address='0.0.0.0'/> </graphics> <video> <model type='qxl' ram='65536' vram='65536' vgamem='16384' heads='1'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x0'/> </video> <memballoon model='virtio'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/> </memballoon> </devices> </domain>

Thanks again

Excellent. Thank you for the info. Is there a recommended quantity of disks to use? Something like at least 2, preferably 3+?

Does unRAID need a hardware controller to create a RAID array, or does it offer software RAID as an option?

Thank you

I searched but can't seem to find an answer. Is it possible to import a bunch of preexisting VMs from Virtualbox into unRAID? If so then how do I do that?