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Aaaahhhh, come on guys... surely you can come up with something! Having the USB controller free would make life so much easier. I understand you're covering your arses, but what’s stopping unRAID from pairing to the motherboard's physical TPM on a bare metal boot but continuing to work afterward in a VM with that same TPM passed through? What's the problem with this approach if any?

Yes and your point is?

No, I show that on my print. I'm passing through the motherboard TPM, I'm not emulating one of course. Freeing up the usb controller would be absolutely useful...

Chaps, what am I missing ? I really want to be able to finally free up the motherboard usb controller for my VMs !!

Well, honestly, after looking more closely at what’s missing or not, it’s really not a big deal. ZFS Master gives me a much better overview of sizes than unRAID does, since I can see the size of each dataset individually. unRAID’s share management still works fine, so not supporting partitions feels a bit shortsighted or maybe just an oversight. I mean, there are only so many NVMe slots and SATA ports available… c’mon. I personally prefer the benefits of having mirrored NVMe partitions and special vdevs available for my pools. But honestly, guys, at least consider adding an option to display a manually imported ZFS pool and just show it as-is. Having a “Format” option with a checkbox and just one click standing between me and total data destruction is a pretty scary sight, lol.

Hi, I'm in a similar situation. What was your solution? Did you just keep using 7.0? That’s a bit of a nuisance because of the ZFS version that 7.0 provides, but I’ll manage. Did you find any workaround? I can import the ZFS pool manually without any problem, but then nothing else in the Unraid GUI recognizes it. Having to manage everything manually kind of defeats the purpose of running Unraid... sigh...

Does anyone here have an NVIDIA GPU in their system that can reach a C-State higher than C3, or am I searching for unicorns?

While unraid VM is running ?? I have a Nvidia gpu on the system. The max I will get will always be C3 (with nvidia drivers installed) but I lose any C state when I start the unraid VM. Is it the same for you ? EDIT: This image pretty much sums it all. Unraid does not "idle", ever.. I tried your kernel. Same result.

It's related to emhttpd. If I kill the process cpu usage goes down. Of course I can't use unraid correctly afterwards but why does that process use more cpu when the disks spindown??

If you find out anything, let me know please.

Fellows, please help me out. Proxmox CPU C-states become this misery when Unraid is running. Stock, fresh 7.0.1 install !! No pci passthrough, just the usbdrive and a virtual disk just to be able to start the array. and with unraid stopped with just OPNsense vm running. (OPNsense does nothing bad to the c-states. It's as if it's not running) and oh well, fresh install of truenas VM just for comparison. At least it's not zero. Any suggestions ?? Anyone ?? Thank you

Hi everyone, I'm sure I'm not the only one virtualizing unRaid using Proxmox, and I'm trying to reduce the host machine power consumption as much as possible. During this process, I’ve noticed strange host CPU usage when unRaid spins down the disks. From my observations, unRaid seems to be very "nervous" by nature—it doesn’t sit still. The images cpu_1, cpu_2, and affinity_spun_down show the host CPU fluctuations I’m referring to as "nervous." I don’t have Docker, VMs, or any plugins installed—it’s as bare-bones as possible at the moment. Here’s the catch... Compare the host CPU usage when the disks are spun down, again images cpu_1, cpu_2, and affinity_spun_down, versus the images cpu_3, cpu_4, and affinity_spun_up, which show lower host CPU usage when the disks are spun up. Say what ? Why is unRaid using more host CPU when the disks are spun down? It doesn’t make any sense to me. And why is unRaid so "nervous"? Stay still, dammit! lol In all seriousness, this seems like a.. bug ?? ...and I’d like to ask the community for suggestions. I allocated 100GB of dedicated 1G HugePages to unRaid, and CPU affinity is set to 8-15 in Proxmox using "host" as the CPU setting. I passthrough the onboard 8 Port sata controller, an asm1166 6 port pcie card and a 1TB nvme that I will use for ZFS L2ARC, it's just not part of my zfs pool atm. I’m not using a Proxmox network bridge. My Proxmox server also functions as my router (OPNsense), so I’ve opted for an Intel X710-T2L to enable SR-IOV and use virtual network cards on all my VMs. I tried messing with link_power_management_policy ( unRaid default is max_performance ) , just is case, and while changing it to med_power_with_dipm or min_power_with_parcial does lower the watt meter reading by about 5w (very nice) with my hardware, It does nothing for the cpu behavior. (This should be user selectable on the new "Power Mode" menu btw, imo!! ). There is more to this host cpu usage for unRaid but lets start here. One thing at a time. Thank you ! tower-diagnostics-20250307-1227.zip

For future reference, I literally just have to add the ROM for the sound card. Not in a million years I would have guessed that. <rom file='/mnt/cache/gen12_gop.rom'/> I tested and I don't need to change anything else—zero, nothing. Could you guys add an option in the web UI to include a ROM for the sound card? The sound card rom line gets cleared when you edit the VM using the webui. <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x1f' function='0x3'/> </source> <alias name='hostdev1'/> <rom file='/mnt/cache/gen12_gop.rom'/> <!-- just this, nothing more --> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/> </hostdev>

Thank you !! That guide gave me the missing link !! Thank you so much.