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2 minutes ago, blaine07 said:
66% chance of NOT hitting unraid port LOL.
I’ll have to find SpaceInvaders video on identifying ports LOL. I KNOW my luck; if it’s not bad luck it’s not my luck AND it’s never in my favor
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That's probably a pretty good guess. I would research if that Intel chipset will work with MacOS or not though. If you find that it doesn't, you can always get an addon ASMedia card for $30 or so and pass that through instead. There were a few people having problems passing through USB controllers in the past. One of the problem ones was a Fresco I think. Don't know about Intel, unless the Intel controller uses another chipset for the actual USB controller.
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4 minutes ago, blaine07 said:
Thanks for the plethora of advice mate!! Is their is way to easily tell how many USB controllers I have?
Hopefully the 730 shows up mid next week.From the Unraid control panel, go to Tools and then select system devices. You'll likely have more than 1 USB controller, but you can't pass the controller that your Unraid USB key is plugged into. I ended up have 3 on my board. 2 controllers the ports on the back panel and front panel header and then there was another USB header plug on the board that was on a 3rd controller. I don't recall immediately, but there is a way to show which controller the USB key is connected to by using the command line with a command. I think Space Invader One has a video about USB controller pass through.
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On 2/16/2019 at 4:44 PM, blaine07 said:
Saw your edit, both will primarily be VMs for remote use. Don’t plan on using either locally much. Regardless after I get graphics figured out the USB pass through was next on my list. Hoping I can give a couple ports to each VM, somehow.
Based on 1812's posts, you should have no problems with the GT730 and Mojave. I had other Nvidia cards working with High Sierra in the past and they worked great, right up to the point where I went to dual screens. Then problems started. I broke down and bought a 580x Radeon card for my Mac VM and have a Nvidia 1080 ti for the Windows VM. This is my daily machine and I use both OSes interchangably all the time and push both of them to the limits, sometimes both at once. I'm running a 10 core i9 7900x. Your quad core should be fine with 4 vCPUs to each vm and split the ram, being sure to leave 1 or 2 gb for unraid to use.
As far as USB pass through, you'll need to determine how many USB controllers you have on your motherboard and will need to pass an entire controller to a vm if you want to plug and unplug USB devices in both operating systems. If one system will only have fixed devices, say a keyboard, mouse and a sound device, you can pass through the individual USB devices to the VM instead of the controller.
ASMedia USB controllers seem to work great in MacOS. I don't remember the chipset I have, but I've passed a bunch of them through without problems. A few of us were discussing USB chipsets and controllers a ways back in this thread.
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7 hours ago, blaine07 said:
Alright!
So Windows10 and OSX just BOTH can’t be booted at same time on Unraid? Win10 seems to be “fine” with IGPU though; I will probably just switch Mojoave to new GPU. I may not hook monitor to new GPU for Mojave; just need graphics to be “better than 4mb” and not tear and be all jacked up through VNC.
Thanks a ton, as usual mate!In order to have both operating systems booted and running at the same time, you need to have a GPU for each one. If the iGPU works for Windows and you've ordered a GTX710 for Mojave, you can potentially run both at once if you have enough other resources in the system.
I built a machine specifically for running both OSes at once over a year ago that I am using today and love it. Everything depends on the total resources of the machine and what you are trying to do with each operating system. Running both at once gets into passing USB controllers and such so that you can have a keyboard and mouse for each system. If you're looking to do that there's help here for you. If you can get by with only 1 system running at a time, you should be all set.
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On 5/12/2018 at 11:56 AM, mikegg said:
That's probably a bit easier solution than trying to resize the container (apfs seems a bit confusing and annoying imho).
Creating a new drive, mounting it and using carbon copy cloner worked great, a important and extra step is making sure that you bring the EFI files with you otherwise it wont boot. It might be possible in CCC directly if you play with the settings, i dunno.
Thanks for the help dude!
Sorry, forgot to mention the copying of the EFI folder to the cloned drive.
Also, resizing APFS rom within High Sierra is not difficult if you use the GUI Disk Utility. If there is more space on the partition, or in this instance the virtual image, select the partition and enlarge it or set to maximum size. I don't remember the exact terms for everything, but it's really simple. The part that I don't know how to do is resize a VM image in unraid. I know there has to be a way to do it and it's probably not that hard, but why risk messing up your working image of MacOS to resize it if you have the space to make a new image that is larger.
On 5/12/2018 at 8:32 PM, steve1977 said:I have some issues yet again with my MacOS VM. It used to work. After recent OS update, I got stuck at a loading screen (Apple symbol with loading bar, never ending). After restarting Unraid, the complete MacOS VM disappeared from the VM tab, which I'd assume is due to some corruption.
I recreated the VM and pointed to the existing iso file. This gets it back to boot, but still not fully functioning. I end up in a loop going back to the Clover starting screen.
I checked the log and find the error message below. Any thoughts?
2018-05-13T00:26:26.703819Z qemu-system-x86_64: vfio: Cannot reset device 0000:00:1f.3, no available reset mechanism.
2018-05-13T00:26:33.618232Z qemu-system-x86_64: terminating on signal 15 from pid 8049 (/usr/sbin/libvirtd)
2018-05-13 00:26:34.418+0000: shutting down, reason=destroyedSteve, what is device 0000:00:1f.3 on your system? Do you have devices passed through like a mouse or keyboard? On occasion I have had issues with passed through mice. I have had better luck passing through a USB controller and plugging the mouse into that instead.
Or could it be a device that doesn't exist any more and being that you have a manually edited XML file it won't be removed automatically.
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On 5/8/2018 at 11:38 AM, daemonix said:
Following the video I can see Clover boot and I have changed the uefi resolution but when I boot I see the black/grey screen and then just black and reboot to clover...
i have beleted the .file mentioned above but nothing.
i have only two cores assigned and 16g ram.
any ideas?
I would recommend try without specifying the CPU topology.
Find the line in your config file that look like this:
<topology sockets='1' cores='2' threads='1'/>
And remove it completely. The VM will load without a topology specified as has been confirmed a few times.
Optionally, if the above line is how your topology is specified, you could also try it with 1 core and 2 threads, but I really recommend no topology based on 2 cores only.
5 hours ago, mikegg said:I'm running the latest nvidia web drivers and the latest clover and i had problem booting with two monitors connected, tried the fixes mentioned in this thres without any of them working. What ended up working was swapping the dvi cable to the second monitor to a displayport one.
I'm wondering though, as i wanted to be smart i created a 25GB image formated with apfs to act as a base image. I then copied it and expanded it to 100GB in the unraid ui and proceeded to try and use `sudo diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk1s1` to resize it to the full 100GB without any success. Do you have any experience in resizing apfs systems? @gridrunner?
Your experience with NVidia and dual monitors is the same as everyone elses. I am glad to here you got it to boot though. I never did have any success with display ports options on my GTX 960.
Did you actually get the image file to expand in size? You could just create a new 100GB image as a 2nd drive, use Carbon Copy Cloner or similar to clone the system disk to it, then use startup disk selector in System Preferences to specify the newly created disk. Once confirming that it boots from the newly imaged (larger) disk, shutdown the VM and remove the configuration for the Primary disk. I have done this to switch between imaged disks and physical passthrough disks on High Sierra VMs or to swap out the physical disk on a VM.
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On 4/30/2018 at 4:08 AM, Yardon said:
Many thanks for this - that was exactly the reason my install wouldn't boot.
Just in case this helps anyone else - the install failed at the same point as before. I discovered it was because I was using the video card output. This was despite using VNC as the graphics option.
I switched the graphics chipset to internal in the BIOS and OSX installed. It's now running with the NVidia passed through
One last hitch, I was using DisplayPort and DVI to connect two monitors to my card. The system would show the Clover screen, start to boot, then both monitors would turn off just before reaching the OSX login screen. I replaced the DisplayPort with a second DVI and now everything works as expected. Seems a little strange, don't know if I've missed anythimg?
That's exactly the problem that I was having with my NVidia GTX 960. If both display were connected, it would always kill both displays to solid black. Common problem from what I have read in the hackintosh community. I tried Lilu and NVidiaFixup, unfortunately that didn't solve the problem either. My cards don't have 2 DVI ports though, so I was unable to try that. Mine was a combination of DVI and HDMI or HDMI and Display port or DVI and display port. The display port options never worked right, even with 2 of them.
If you got yours working with dual DVI, then awesome and congratulations. Between the boot up with 2 displays not working and the other oddity's I frequently had, I chose to turn to the dark side and go AMD. Haven't had a non-NVidia card in over 25 years. lol
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No, it's not the SMBIOS in gridrunners video. Isn't that a standard, iMac 4,1 or something? 4,1 is old, maybe it was a later one. Don't remember. The only advantage that I know of would be support for new devices and CPUs. I haven't tweaked my CPU settings yet, but this install started out as a bare metal install on the same hardware, following a howto on InsanelyMac. My motherboard has an x299 chipset and I have an i9-7800x CPU. For the bare metal hackintosh install to work correctly and be able to correctly identify the CPU and also handle CPU turbo and clock settings from within High Sierra, there needed to be specific kexts and the iMac Pro SMBIOS.
From that install, I only added the dsdt for QEMU that gridrunner supplies to Clover. Everything else stayed the same as my bare metal install.
I'm glad to hear Apple supports the 480 too. Have you tried the voodoo kext to see if you can get hdmi audio working if you wanted it? I know it showed 6 audio outputs for this 580 card.
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On 4/27/2018 at 1:09 PM, 1812 said:
was the sapphire plug and play?
I can't speak for the 480, but I did finally breakdown and buy a Radeon RX580. Plug 'n Play, no problems whatsoever. Boots with 2 monitors connected, can resize either or both with no flicker or problems. No blanking at any time. I should have done this from the start and saved myself all the futzing around for the last 4 months, but I had 2 extra GTX 960's and thought I could get them to work.
For the record, I'm also running an iMac Pro 1,1 SMBIOS. My System is running very very smooth.
I added another little item to help performance of High Sierra and Win10 too. I picked up a Dell Perc H310, but left it with the default firmware on it. I'm running 2 separate Raid0 arrays with SSDs. 1 is passed to High Sierra and 1 is passed to Win10. Man they both fly like that. I always used to run Raid0 on bare metal machines for the extra performance with SSDs and then use a decent backup plan. The Raid card allows me to do that with my 2 vms and then I use the normal, mechanical drives for the unraid shares and the 2 onboard M.2 drives for cache. I'm feeling pretty good about this build now.
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On 1/16/2018 at 8:25 PM, 1812 said:
just a follow up, i could't boot my gtx 1060 with 2 monitors attached. IIRC (from this morning) it showed the apple logo, progress bar, then everything went black (using hdmi and dvi) and if i also remember correctly, about 6 months ago on 10.12.x I had issues using displayport on a gtx 1060 (would only show black screen) but if you let it boot up on it own then plug it in, everything was fine. I read someone on a forum that it was an issue either with the driver or clover.
1812, would you be willing to try something out that I just found in a thread on tonymacx86? A guy over there, jgalt184, was having trouble with multiple displays on an NVidia graphics card in his hackintosh and could not get it to boot. He ended up adding NvidiaWeb=YES to the bootflag in the config.plist for Clover and says it started working. I have to assume that a bare metal hackintosh is having the same problems that we are with a vm inside Unraid. Unfortunately, I had given up on my dual display system and have been using my Mackbook Pro for my main Mac desktop again and reconfigure my Unraid desktop for now so I don't have a MacOS VM running at the moment to test on.
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On 2/17/2018 at 3:39 PM, 1812 said:
Anyone else having issues with 2 GPU's? I have auto login setup and if I boot with 1GPU it works as intended. If I try to boot 2, it brings up the login screen. After entering the password, it spins like it's going to move to the desktop, then the screen goes black, followed by the login screen coming back up. This is using a gt 710 and gtx 1060 with web drivers enabled appropriate web drivers enabled. 1060 works fine if it is the only gpu sent to the vm.
thanks!
That's exactly the same problem I had. Being unable to boot with 2 displays connected to 1 card, I tried 2 cards with 1 display each. It loads to the logins screen, then when entering password, it starts to load and then jumps back to the login screen again. If I boot with only 1 display connected to 1 card, login and then connect the 2nd display, it dumps back to the login screen again.
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Schlichi, I'm glad you got the 960 card working and are happy with the performance. The 960 does everything I need in OSX and works pretty decent in Windows on games at 1080p with medium to high settings, depending on the game.
All,
I did find out something interesting today with my OSX vm that I'd like to see if anyone else can confirm similar results. I have all my CPU pinning configured to allow my Mac VM 4 hyper threaded cores, my Win10 vm 4 hyper threaded cores and there are 2 leftover on this 10 core i9 for another vm (runs some backup tasks and an internal DNS server) and unraid.
I was looking at the Dashboard in the unraid gui and saw that the first 6 cores between unraid, the odd vm and Windows were all using the hyperthreads pretty evenly. Not dead even as expected, but the load was pretty even across everything when there are processes running in each vm for the cores it's using.
On my High Sierra vm though, only half were being consistent and the hyperthreads were barely showing any load on them at all. After seeing this, I tried changing the setting to 8 cores and 1 thread each. There was a definite performance improvement in High Sierra and now the they are all utilized fairly even. I have to assume this has something to do with Unraid as I would think Apple has their use of hyper threads optimized, right?
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On 1/31/2018 at 1:36 PM, CHBMB said:
So findings so far....
1st Card - AUKEY 4 Ports PCI-E To USB 3.0 Expansion Card
Chipset: VL805
Findings: Got an error in my syslog during boot and card was unable to be used either natively in Linux or passed through to Windows or OSX VM
2nd Card - Anker Uspeed PCI-E to USB 3.0 2-Port Express Card
Chipset: VL805
Findings: Got an error in my syslog during boot and card was unable to be used either natively in Linux or passed through to Windows or OSX VM
3rd Card - Sienoc USB3.0 7Port PCI Express Card
Chipset: - Renesas D720201
Findings: Worked natively in Linux or passed through to Windows, but not detected by OSX VM
4th Card - Inateck KTU3FR-5O2I
Chipset: Fresco FL1100
Findings: Worked natively in Linux, and worked beautifully in Windows or OSX VMs, able to use my hardware KVM switch with either, but unable to power my server off with the card plugged in, as soon as it powered off, it powered on again. @aptalca has had the same issue with a Fresco FL1100 card and we both have Supermicro motherboards.
5th Card - ORICO USB3.0 4 Port PCI Express to USB3.0 Host Controller Card (PME-4U)
Chipset: Fresco FL1100
Findings: Worked natively in Linux, and worked beautifully in Windows or OSX VMs, able to use my hardware KVM switch with either, but unable to power my server off with the card plugged in, as soon as it powered off, it powered on again. @aptalca has had the same issue with a Fresco FL1100 card and we both have Supermicro motherboards. I ordered this one to try and exclude the possibility it was an inherent Inateck fault, but after testing this one, I think we can conclude there is an issue with the FL1100 chipset and Supermicro boards.
6th Card - KALEA-INFORMATIQUE Controller Card PCI Express (PCI-E) to 3.1 USB
Chipset: Asmedia ASM1142
Findings: Awaiting arrival......
Other possibilities: Well I'm running out of chipsets to try, only thing I could consider is an expensive Sonnet card which uses the Fresco FL1100 chipset but had four controllers on the card which can in theory be split amongst VMs so one controller to each VM. I don't hold out much hope this will actually work well given it's got four of the damned chips that won't let me powerdown in the first place.
One other thing I did try was using the Renesas based chipset to boot from and passed through my native USB ports, that didn't work well. Not sure why, but I might investigate that a bit more if I have no other options.
I have a Sonnet card with the FL1100 chipset in my unraid server. This particular one is about 4 years old and only shows up as 1 controller to pass through. I do not have a Supermicro motherboard though so it does not affect me at all. Everything works as it should.
All the other USB controllers on my system are ASMedia. The builtin controllers on the motherboard will passthrough just fine and work as expected and then I have an addon PCI-e card that's an ASMedia chipset too for an additional USB-C port. This card works great in either Windows or OSX.
I would have assume based on your testing that any of the FL1100 chipsets are going to cause you problems with the Supermicro board. Being that you've tried everything else, ASMedia seems to be the path you'll have to try.
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4 hours ago, raiditup said:
No disk shows up in the Clover menu.
I thought gridrunner answered a similar problem back a few pages. To me, it sounds like clover was not installed properly on the USB flash drive you used to create the img file. If clover is loading, the img file is working, but if clover is not finding the disk it is loading from, it sounds like there was a problem during the creation of the disk or installation of clover.
I'm also assuming this is before you even get to the installation of OSX? i don't recall you specifying that.
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7 hours ago, planetwilson said:
So in the end I created a new VM and edited it with Virt Mgr form an Ubuntu VM as suggested slightly earlier. That seemed to resolve all my issues, passthough now working again. I can't quite work out what the changes in the XML were though.
Awesome! Any chance it was a formatting issue in the .xml when doing it through a text editor? Definitely glad you got it working finally.
5 hours ago, raiditup said:Yeah I created a .img from the USB. The only difference is I used an Ubuntu machine to create the img with qemu-img instead of plugging in the drive directly to the Unraid server. I then scp'd the img file over to the Unraid server.
I followed both the Creating Install Media and the How to High Sierra on Unraid videos by Gridrunner but still ran into the issue of it not seeing the disk.
What exactly is happening after Clover loads. Are you able to select the disk to boot in the Clover menu or is the disk not in the Clover menu at all?
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Schlichi, sounds like you have a good plan. I wouldn't spend money on something not really necessary either. From an OSX stand point, that card will definitely work with the NVidia web drivers. Just follow gridrunner's procedures for passing through an NVidia card in OSX.
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4 hours ago, Schlichi said:
Thank you!
So this card should be okay, right?
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 Mini OC, 4GB
If yes, I'll get a used one from eBay.
I know that High Sierra supports HEVC, but I thought only with compatible CPUs from newer Macs and NOT with NVIDIA GPUs.
But if you say it also works with NVIDIA GPUs - it's even better. :-)
Oh and I got another question:
When I start my macOS VM I can see in the log the following error:
Domain id=7 is tainted: custom-argv
It's only when I boot up the VM and only in the log file. The VM boots just fine. Do you have any idea what that is? Or should I just ignore it?
Greets
Schlichi
Schlichi, I did not verify any of the information I linked. I would definitely recommend you do some searching to determine that 960 will definitely do what you need it to. I said I have a fullsize 960 that I'm using (2) 4k monitors on in High Sierra. Before you spend money on hardware, just do a couple searches to verify everything I referenced for you. I don't want to be responsible for you spending money on something that might not work as you would expect.
1 hour ago, raiditup said:I'm having the same problem as you. I've tried the latest version of Clover (r4380) and the one suggested in the description of the Creating Install Media guide (r4220) and both times Clover sees no disk.
Did you follow the directions to create the .img file from the USB? You're not trying to boot the USB directly, are you?
Gridrunner has a video linked in the High Sierra video about how to create the USB flash drive for installation and then I believe the High Sierra installation video is what explained how to create the .img file to use as the installation disk for the VM.
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Not true. See here: https://www.macrumors.com/guide/hevc-video-macos-high-sierra-ios-11/
High Sierra supports HEVC.
Also, I didn't comment on your 710 at 1x. Yes, that should be fine for Unraid. I had a gtx610 on it, in a 4x slot. Unraid isn't doing any graphically that needs any kind of PCI bandwidth.
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Schlichi,
Per this page: https://www.techspot.com/article/1131-hevc-h256-enconding-playback/
See which cards support HEVC. On my server, I run a GTX 960 with 2GB of ram on my OSX VM to power (2) 4k displays and it does everything I need it to do. I have not specifically test HEVC, but I have definitely used H.265. Do some reading on what cards will meet your needs.
From there, almost all of the NVidia GTX cards will work with the NVidia web drivers. From what I've read, the Radeon cards are easier to get working with OSX, but I have not had any personal experience. All my cards are NVidia and all of them have been running in OSX at some point, including eGPU on some previous versions of the OS.
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48 minutes ago, planetwilson said:
Well that didn't work
tried dumping the ROM again as well.
2018-01-19 10:50:53.254+0000: Domain id=1 is tainted: high-privileges
2018-01-19 10:50:53.254+0000: Domain id=1 is tainted: custom-argv
2018-01-19 10:50:53.254+0000: Domain id=1 is tainted: host-cpu
2018-01-19T10:50:53.306628Z qemu-system-x86_64: -chardev pty,id=charserial0: char device redirected to /dev/pts/1 (label charserial0)
2018-01-19T10:50:55.302315Z qemu-system-x86_64: -device vfio-pci,host=03:00.0,id=hostdev0,bus=pci.3,addr=0x0,romfile=/mnt/cache/downloads/gtx950mw.dump: Failed to mmap 0000:03:00.0 BAR 3. Performance may be slowOn my system, the card in the 1st PCI slot is the one that unraid grabs on boot. If you have bios options for graphics priority, specify which card to initialize first and unraid will use that.
What is the card you are passing through to OSX? You don’t need the rom file if it’s not the primary card in the system. You may have said earlier on, are you getting any display out of it? When I have display problems with passthrough, I get the Tianocore logo, then Clover and it either quits there or shows the apple logo and starts to load and display goes blank. How far you are through the boot process will help determine where to look.
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Schlichi, my initial comment was about onboard USB controllers. Do you have any header plugs on the motherboard that could possibly be on their own controller that you could passthrough? It would be great if you had extra slots, but if you don't see what you have for onboard controllers.
1812, sounds like the same problem I've been having. I figure if I don't get time to mess with it, maybe a new driver will come out that will fix it in the mean time. Fingers crossed.
planetwilson, your card should work as secondary in the system without the rom file.
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1812,
In my experiences, the GPU frames per second is not just a MacOS problem. My EVGA 1080ti only runs at 59fps when set at 1080P and 29-30fps at 2560x1440 in Windows. That is the display via Steam in game FPS display and the NVidia Experience FPS displays the same frame rate. I was getting much high fps on my GTX 960 on bare metal in my old gaming pc. I have not used anything on MacOS that has a fps display yet, but I would have to assume similar results if that's Windows.
Glad to see you got your High Sierra working. Haven't had a chance to mess with my dual displays again yet.
planetwilson,
I have not been able to get my default display adapter to work at the gpu in High Sierra. I tried passing the ROM and it just wouldn't work. I ended up swapping gpus between slots and use the default gpu that unraid boots on for my Windows VM instead and the ROM file works just fine with Windows. I only tried it when I first installed High Sierra a month or so ago.
High Sierra works fine with either of 2 GTX 960 cards if they are not the primary card for unraid. As far as passing the rom file, did you verify via an ssh connection to your server that you can definitely access the rom file via the path you entered in your xml file? Being that your path is /mnt/disks/vmssd, I'm assuming that's an ssd that is not a shared drive that you mounted manually? Just checking as I have rom files in the main domains folder that is a shared folder.
Schlichi,
do you have multiple USB controllers on your motherboard? I know gridrunner said that MacOS just has problems with passthrough USB devices. Some work, but a lot of times they just act weird and it's much easier if you can passthrough the entire USB controller. On my board, I have 3 different USB controllers and have passed through 1 of them to High Sierra and I also passed through a separate PCIe USB card to High Sierra.
By your posts, you seem pretty technical, but if you need help with it, gridrunner has a video for passing USB controllers and determine which of the onboard controllers are in separate iommu groups.
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When I started setting up my virtualized OSX, my Macbook Pro was already on High Sierra. If i had known the situation, I probably would have stayed on Sierra.
I will post the diagnostics later this week when I'm back home.
Another thread you commented in about bios settings has me wondering if I could change some PCI settings in the bios that would have an affect on this. I have to look what settings are available though.
tried dumping the ROM again as well.
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I would think it should. I have had audio working on various cards that I had passed to MacOS. Have you tried adding the Voodoo HDA kext? I have used it on hackintosh installs in the past and I believe I had even used it within Unraid for a little while when using an Nvidia card. I also recall something about Nvidia audio drivers, but don't remember the details. Voodoo HDA should work if nothing else will. Just add it to your Clover config.