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    Mac OS VM - USB devices hang

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    16 hours ago, david279 said:

    Is it 10.15.2? I would have have everything USB  running thru the USB controller. Get a USB hub if needed. I found directly passing thru USB device to be a little flakely sometimes. Especially for Mac VMs.

    Hi @david279 and thanks for the response.
    I've tried several times installing Mac Os since 2017 with guides from @SpaceInvaderOne.
    All succesfull BUT with the same issue regarding the USB Controller.
    So i dont think that its tied to the version of the Mac os, which is btw 10.15.2.

    I do not have the option to passthrough only the Mouse for example because the USB devices are not at all visible under that section as you can see bellow.image.png.f4585121cfed6b0cc7be8b2618872610.png

    That is why i pass-though the entire USB controller to the VM.
    I read in forums about some kexts that are helpful in these situations but couldn't find any for my X99 that are compatible.
    The most easy thing to do is buy a new PCI USB Controller that is compatible with Unraid and Mac os.
    But apart from the fact that i don't want have a free PCI slot, i don't know which USB controllers are compatible for Unraid and Mac os.

    Maybe some kexts will do the job and im trying to focus there first to see if i can find a sollution 
     

    Mac OS VM - USB devices hang

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    Hi all,
     

    I recently installed Mac OS Catalina with the help of the amazing Spaceinvader One and his latest guide.
    Everything went smooth and Catalina is now installed on its own SSD drive.

    The problem is as shown on the video attached.

    Video showing the problem

    The USB devices hang and/or seem unresponsive for seconds making the system unusable.
    When I move the mouse for example on the login screen, it moves extremely slow and the movement is choppy as it doesn't have a good connection (it is a wired mouse and keyboard).
    That seems to be better when I login through Anydesk as I cannot type my password with the keyboard at all (keystrokes never register).
    Mouse movement is choppy and unusable after login but with a slight better performance (see video for more).
    Bluetooth discovers and connects to devices (Magic Mouse, magic keyboard, Magic Trackpad) and seems to drop the connections every second and tries to reconnect all the time.
    Everything USB related is unreliable.

    Tried all 3 options on USB controller in the template but the result is always the same.
     

    My Setup:
    Unraid Version: 6.8.0
    M/B: ASRock X99 Extreme4 Version 
    CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHz (6 cores)
    HVM: Enabled
    IOMMU: Enabled
    Memory: 32 GiB DDR4
     

    VM Setup:
    4 cores
    16GB Ram
    Machine: Q35-3.1
    Bios: OVMF
    USB Controller: 3.0 (nec XHCI)
    GPU: AMD Radeon 480x
    The PCI device that I Passthrough is: 
    Intel C610/X99 series chipset USB xHCI Host Controller | USB controller (00:14.0)
     

    Any help will be appreciated.

     

    All VMs can't boot with PCI Devices attached

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    On 2/19/2017 at 8:35 PM, jonp said:

    Sincerest apologies for our lack of official reply here. We are indeed investigating this issue. So far we have been unable to recreate it. I will probably need offer you a free troubleshooting session with us to try and figure out what is going on.

     

    Sent from my SM-G930P using Tapatalk

     

     

    Hi,

    Thanks for replying.

    I rolled back at 6.3.2 and left my VM on for about an hour.
    When i got back i found it to try to boot to Windows but stuck.
    In Unraid the state was "Paused" and I'm unable to resume it.
    I force quit the VM.

    The problem still exists and im experimenting with a lot of things to try and find a solution.
    If the offer for a free troubleshooting session still stands please let me know when we can schedule it.

    Thanks in advance.

    All VMs can't boot with PCI Devices attached

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    I get you're frustrated. I would be too. But seeing some of the errors that have occurred with vm's has caused me to wait a little longer before I update to 6.2.3 since I need to have a scheduled downtime incase anything occurs. Unfortunately you've rolled back to 6.2.4. The thing to have done would be staying on 6.3.2 and posting the diagnostics you posted here into the 6.2.3 release thread. Since the LT folks are looking for any other bugs, and specifically request that info there, that is/was your best chance at getting their attention and getting the people who know unRaid best to assist.

     

    Thanks for directing me to the correct thread.

    I'm already on 6.3.2 and I'll post everything there.

    The thing is that it's not at all clear where should someone with such issues post his/her issues, given the fact that it's not easy to find the mentioned thread.

    Plus who would have known that a New version release thread is also the place you post your problems/issues/bugs. Maybe I missed sth. Idk.

    On the other hand I paid 90$ for this OS and I'm close to a month now that I'm having issues that I can't solve and even after contacting support I got no answer.

    Anyways thanks for being understanding.

    I'll try my best to help the community in any way that I can.

     

    VM crashing the system on startup

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    Hi,

     

    Since i had issues with my VMs after upgading to 6.3.x and there is no official solution (yet) I'm suggesting you to try my way.

     

    http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=56327.msg542071#msg542071

     

    Hope i helped.

     

    Thanks

     

    reading comprehension > you

     

    It turns out all I needed to do is update my BIOS, even though previous BIOS's worked.

     

    also manosioa, spamming other people's posts instead of finding the correct post/section to address your issue in is probably not going to win you any friends. I get that you are frustrated, but you're not addressing your situation correctly.

     

    I'm not trying to win any friends. I just believe that since there are other people who search around the forum for a solution for a similar problem to what i had, it would be proper to point them to another solution that may help them just in case my topic is lost or overrun.

    That's how other members interact so i thought of doing the same.

    All VMs can't boot with PCI Devices attached

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    Posted

    Hi once again,

     

    Since I'm the only one who actually tries to solve this problem and i want to help others to solve it (temporarilly) I'll post my findings.

     

     

    Thank for posting your findings.

     

    Also, thanks for completely discounting myself and the other 2 folks who interacted with you. You clearly have a unique issue, one which the users of the forum have not been able to figure out in the KVM section. Perhaps if you posted in the appropriate 6.3.0, 6.3.1, or 6.3.2 release threads, since that appears to be the root of your problem, you might have garnered the attention you desire.

     

    Best of luck to you in the future.

     

    Hi,

     

    I didn't want to be disrespectful to you or to anyone who offered their help.

    I misspoken and i seemed rude and offensive.

     

    Im sorry for that.

     

    I'm just frustrated with the situation cause i did exactly what the creators said.

     

    Firstly i created this topic.

    Then i waited.

    Then i wrote to the helpdesk.

    Then i posted my link to the topic.

    Then i waited.

     

    I got attention by replying to my own topic in order to put it back in the first page.

     

    Anyways all I'm trying to say is Thanks to you and to anyone that helped.

    But i didn't receive any type of -non automatic reply- interest/relpy through email regarding my problem from the creators.

    Also i didn't think of posting it in a different thread cause its a VM issue.

    My bad.

     

    Again thanks and sorry.

     

    All VMs can't boot with PCI Devices attached

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    Hi once again,

     

    Since I'm the only one who actually tries to solve this problem and i want to help others to solve it (temporarilly) I'll post my findings.

     

    After being fed up with the whole situation, i tried to downgrade from 6.3.2 to the most stable 6.2.4.

     

    That solved all my problems regarding the VMs.

     

    Downgrading to a previous version is easy.

     

    0. Stop the array and Shutdown your Unraid server.

    1. Plug the Unraid USB Flash drive to a spare PC.

    2. Download the Unraid 6.2.4 version from this link https://s3.amazonaws.com/dnld.lime-technology.com/stable/unRAIDServer-6.2.4-x86_64.zip

    3. Extract the zip file

    4. Copy and replace the files bzimage and bzroot to the Unraid USB Flash drive

    5. Remove the Unraid USB Flash drive from the PC

    6. Plug it back to your server and boot as you normally do

     

    This way you preserve all the configuration and downgrade to the stable version that suits you.

     

    WARNING!!!!!!!!!!

     

    There is a possibility that all your VMs might get deleted or disappear.

    Backup your img files or copy your VMs XML in order to be safe if such thing happens.

     

    I'm still waiting for an OFFICIAL proper solution, one that i will be able to be up to date with the latest Unraid release AND have everything working properly.

    After all this is an OS for which I paid 90$ and Im not actually happy with how i've been handled after-sales wise.

     

    Thanks in advance

    All VMs can't boot with PCI Devices attached

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    have you tried just the usb passthrough only first to rule out gpu related issues?

     

    tried changing machine from i440fx to q35?

     

    Hi and thanks for the reply,

     

    Yes I have tried all possible combinations.

    No PCI devices

    Only GPU

    Only USB controller

    Only Audio card

     

    The only time the VM actually boots is when no PCI devices are attached in the confirmation and it's set on VNC.

     

    Yes I tried both i440fx and q35 plus changed the versions just in case that could resolve the problem.

     

    Thanks again

    All VMs can't boot with PCI Devices attached

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    I would like to highlight some other users experiencing about the same problems with their VMs

     

    http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=55818.15

    http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=56249.0

    http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=56551.0

     

     

    Other problems from upgrading to 6.3.0

     

    http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=56233.0

    http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=56263.0

     

    Should we take any actions prior to upgrading our systems in order to avoid such issues?

     

    Thanks again

    All VMs can't boot with PCI Devices attached

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    I should have mentioned that i tried the following steps before i post my problem.

     

    1) Created 2 new VMs from scratch (i have a pass-through SSD for Windows 10) so it was one of the first things i tried.

    2) Tried both OVMF and Seabios in the configurations.

    3) Played with the PCI Settings in the M/B BIOS.

    4) Resseted all my M/B BIOS settings to Default.

    5) Upgraded the BIOS firmware of my M/B.

     

    The thing is that im not sure that i had this issue prior upgrading to 6.3.0.

    All VMs can't boot with PCI Devices attached

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    Posted

    Hi,

     

    3 days ago i rebooted my system and from that moment all my VMs started acting weird.

     

    They dont start at all when a PCI device is in the configuration (USB controller, PCI GPU, Intergrated Audio Card).

    If i start the any VM without any PCI device in the configuration and with VNC it works like a charm.

    There are no errors in the log.

     

    2017-02-07 08:11:00.791+0000: starting up libvirt version: 2.4.0, qemu version: 2.7.0, hostname: Tower
LC_ALL=C PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin HOME=/ QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/local/sbin/qemu -name 'guest=Windows 10 n,debug-threads=on' -S -object 'secret,id=masterKey0,format=raw,file=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-2-Windows 10 n/master-key.aes' -machine pc-i440fx-2.7,accel=kvm,usb=off,dump-guest-core=off,mem-merge=off -cpu host,hv_time,hv_relaxed,hv_vapic,hv_spinlocks=0x1fff,hv_vendor_id=none -m 24576 -realtime mlock=off -smp 8,sockets=1,cores=4,threads=2 -uuid 3d948a60-c575-1ce6-3fdf-9f17f422fe96 -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev 'socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-2-Windows 10 n/monitor.sock,server,nowait' -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=localtime -no-hpet -no-shutdown -boot strict=on -device nec-usb-xhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7 -device ahci,id=sata0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6 -drive file=/dev/sdc,format=raw,if=none,id=drive-sata0-0-2,cache=writeback -device idio-pci,host=00:1b.0,id=hostdev0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x8 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x9 -msg timestamp=on
Domain id=2 is tainted: high-privileges
Domain id=2 is tainted: host-cpu
char device redirected to /dev/pts/0 (label charserial0)
2017-02-07T08:18:34.215810Z qemu-system-x86_64: terminating on signal 15 from pid 23552
2017-02-07 08:18:34.816+0000: shutting down, reason=destroyed

     

    I attach all logs and ascreenshot.

     

    Im on 6.3.0

     

    Thanks In advance.

    System_Devices.txt

    VNC.PNG.9856b5bc3294769e892ac055a03d85ad.PNG

    System_Log.txt

    XML.txt.txt