jsebright

Thanks for pushing out 7.3.0 - I was worried too much love was going to 7.25/6 My "daily driver" server has an Unraid Basic licence - 6 drives limit and I'm using 6. I bought some Optane 16gb disks to use for boot, but it wasn't supported in the early Betas. Am I able to move to this boot method now? or does it count as a storage drive (when a larger flash drive doesn't!). Would be great news if it is as I'd like to move over to this boot method with either USB flash or TPM licencing.

Thanks for your reply. That's a shame. Fingers crossed this might change. I have another server with a pro licence that I also want to use this on, hopefully the 50% restriction won't be an issue.

I have a 6 drive licence and would like to use a dedicated 16gb intel optane drive exclusively for this. Will the licence let me have this as a boot drive (no data/array) and keep my existing 6 drives?

You will likely see a higher number of issues on here as there will (hopefully) be a silent majority for whom the versions work. I've upgraded through most of the rc's on 2 servers - one with a "daily driver" VM, and not seen any issues. I assume it's the edge cases that cause problems - less common hardware, more obscure docker / networking setups etc. If there's some data gathered around installs it would be reassuring to see some numbers of users on the latest versions.

LMS for streaming in the house via raspberry pi (picoreplayer) or wiim clients etc using something like Squeezer for a mobile controller. Navidrome works well as an alternative if your aim is to play directly through a browser or on a mobile device - I use DSub on Android for this. The container is much faster than the original subsonic. I run both.

So, now that the discussion around new licensing is starting to ease off a bit, I'd like to ask the obvious question... When can we see v7 and the next round of exciting new features?

Doesn't sound unfair to me. But... Along with a Pro licence, I've currently got a trial for a small install that I need to licence. I can either buy a basic key or extend / wait and buy a starter licence. Will there be a period of time during which I can make that choice - either by both being available, or knowing the new pricing in advance?

Thanks for replying. Not sure what the risks are of just plugging in a plain cable and seeing what's shown. Obviously nothing should go wrong, but I don't want to trash two servers if they both try to send power when they shouldn't! Might try to find some donor machines to try with first off to check that nothing bad happens even if the hardware and software will be completely different. I just don't want any of the magic smoke to come out of the chips because they won't work the same after that.

This might be a daft idea but... I'm setting up a second unraid server on an unused laptop to run some basic services. This is much lower powered than my main unraid server so I don't need to worry about leaving it on all the time. The main one has many disks, better CPU & ram and will still be used for some VM's, bigger protected storage and backups. I was thinking about faster networking between the two because I'm limited by the 1gb port on the laptop. I remember a very long time ago networking two windows PCs using a firewire cable that was configured as a network, and wondered if I could do the same with USB3 and make a direct attachment between the two machines as they're physically close together. (This would be in addition to them both going to the switch). Some research has revealed some usb cables with a device in the middle which refer to themselves as "Windows Easy Transfer Cable". Searching Amazon, this is an example (not currently available for me, but something similar might be). https://www.amazon.com/Plugable-Transfer-Thunderbolt-Software-Migration/dp/B0BGRVS51T/ So, would this sort of cable present itself as an ethernet adaptor in both servers that could then be configured to use as a fast sync / fileshare connection? Would a plain usb cable do the same thing (USB-A or USB-C) ? It seems this could be a very cheap way to get fast networking between two machines and only using a USB port.

I went quite early on this, but another uneventful upgrade. Many thanks.

Done. Thanks.

Upgrade from 6.12.3 to 6.12.4 appeared to go OK, but I have a network card issue. I have a 10gb fibre card, and onboard 1gb nic. These are set to a bond and it mainly uses the 10gb (onboard is enabled for WOL - a script after waking forces the 10gb card to be active). My fibre card is constantly showing as disconnected (Interface Ethernet Port 1 is down. Check cable!) . Changing designations between eth0 and eth1 makes no difference. It is listed in system devices as [15b3:1003] 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Mellanox Technologies MT27500 Family [ConnectX-3] The new system drivers shows two drivers: mlx4_core Mellanox ConnectX HCA low-level driver Inuse net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4 mlx4_en Mellanox ConnectX HCA Ethernet driver Inuse net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4 I have the Mellanox Firmware Tools installed - which seems to report the card OK. Anyone else with this issue?

Some of the Kingston G2 readers supposedly available at Amazon UK for those interested. Had a usb fail about 4 years ago and I think it was painless to get a replacement licence.

Great work guys. When can we see an RC for 6.11 ? 😁

That's correct, I did. Struggling to get it to work again though. Going back to VNC, uninstalling all drivers & old devices before adding the graphics will probably help.

I haven't - that's where it all goes wrong. You're stuck with the default drivers. I'm on 6.9.2 and not ready to try 6.10 yet - still waiting for the next RC, "soon?". I'm hoping that updates to KVM/QEMU will help, as may future bios updates, and updated drivers from AMD. For now I've reverted back to adding a physical graphics card for VM work. A bit disappointing.

Sorry, no idea where the xvga='yes' came from. I try to stick to the Forms mode when editing VMs. As I said, for me I got to a state where there was no display but the VM was running and able to serve a remote desktop. I also saw the Microsoft Basic Adapter, but just did a reboot and the screen came up. I'm not 100% sure if the output is from HDMI or DP>HDMI adapter (I'm then running two long HDMI leads to another room). I don't get multi monitor from the basic adapter so it might be that only one of the outputs is working. If you are able to test a display port connection it might show something. I'm not seeing any errors in the logs. Sorry I can't offer more help - I don't understand enough to explain what's going on.

<hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes' xvga='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x0c' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </source> <alias name='hostdev0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x04' slot='0x00' function='0x0' multifunction='on'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x0c' slot='0x00' function='0x1'/> </source> <alias name='hostdev1'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x04' slot='0x00' function='0x1'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb' managed='no'> <source> <address bus='1' device='6'/> </source> <alias name='hostdev2'/> <address type='usb' bus='0' port='1'/> </hostdev> This is the section with the graphics - all the "hostdev" bits. The bit I edited was the line <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x04' slot='0x00' function='0x1'/> I don't have the graphics & audio bound to VFIO. I don't think that the whole script will help - I've not got a full understanding of what it does, and it's probably a bit of a mess due to previous changes to this machine. The important points are Q35 Seabios, no other devices (add them later), get remote desktop working first (whilst graphics are VNC) so you can log in remotely if the display doesn't work (after you've changed the graphics) then you can check device manager and reboot.

OK, so I couldn't resist having another go. This is what I've done and the issues Made sure the AMD Cezanne graphics and driver were uninstalled from the VM Added the GPU and audio to the VM Fiddled with the Advanced settings xml so that the passed through audio bus was the same as the graphics, and the function was 0x1 (sort of matching the devices pre-passthrough). This might not be necessary if we're not installing drivers. Booted up the VM. Black screens and nothing. But, I could remote desktop into the VM, so I did that and rebooted it. It came up with a screen. Made sure the keyboard & mouse was attached, and logged in. Rebooted - came up straight away with the screen. Changed the resolution to match the monitor, rebooted and it's still good. Shut it down, then rebooted and all fine. I even tried pausing the VM from unraid then starting it and that worked. So - quite successfull. But - I can only see one monitor and I have two plugged in (I think both connections are plugged in at the server anyway!). Display adapter in Device Manager shows "Microsoft Basic Display Adapter". Obviously not making the most of the chip, but it's perfectly usable. I'm not going to go further and try to install any driver updates as it's got a high probability of jamming something and the server might require a hard reboot. It's possible to get this far. Good luck!

Can't remember exactly, but VM is Q35-5.1 (latest Q35 for 6.9.2) with SeaBIOS. I think that some time ago I had to move from i440fx to Q35 to get a GPU passthrough working. I've not tried much recently as I don't want to crash the machine again, but I think the first try I hadn't even done the VFIO binding. Tempted to have another try to see if I can get something basic working without the drivers that doesn't crash the system following a VM shutdown / startup. Will post back when I do that.

Have just upgraded to this CPU with the aim of removing a graphics card and reducing power consumption, but still hoping to pass through to a Windows VM. Initial passthrough worked OK (I think). (I have not tried to mess with the GPU bios.) Then trying to install the drivers I had some problems. Driver install seemed to hang, then once I'd got round that (possibly), then I found that turning off the VM caused horrible problems with CPU usage going crazy and the system becoming unresponsive. A reboot was the only solution. Since then I've avoided this hoping that there will be some fixes in a new driver, or in 6.10 (not ready to try a beta build yet as I only have the one server). I have meddled with an Ubuntu VM, but couldn't get that to pass through. Am tempted to try doing a clean windows install to see what happens, but am wary of locking everything up again, also might try and see how I can get on without drivers as I'm not worried about gaming - just occasional desktop use. I hadn't considered dumping the bios might help as I haven't needed to go that route before with a stand alone (very old) AMD card that I passed through. Don't really want to put the old card back in, but that thought has crossed my mind. Interested to follow this and see what progress is made.

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