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Lovely, this works like a charm. thank you so much guys

Thank you, you litrally halfed my consumption from 290watt idle to lower than 120watt (yes i know thats still high from the wall, but i am running a lot of kit) CPU: AMD 5900X GPU1: RTX 3070ti eagle GPU2: GTX 1080 msi NVME: 3 x nvme 1TB HDD: 1x8TB 1x4TB SSD: 3x500gb RAM: 64GB 3200mhz Cooling: full watercooing with 11x120mm fans + 2x140mm fans

might be kicking a dead horse here but another free alternative to Windows RDP is Parsec. I have been using it for a while now and have almost zero input lag or artifacts. RDP for me was too glitchy for most games/apps i was using as it runs a virtual desktop. Parsec behaves as if you were sitting at your desk, forwards controller, microphone and other peripheral data seamlessly. You can set the app the run at start up so as soon as the computer has loaded you can just remote into the login screen.

if the device 0x8086... A0:36:... is your main NIC for unraid then that is correct. your eth allocation is a bit jumbled up but its fine. if you assigned your NIC correctly you should see it in your list of devices under "other PCI devices" when you edit your VM. for example like this NVME PCI SSD and USB controller If you don't see the Network PCI device then you must assign it, i recommend you do it with virt manager for your own sanity. Unraid will automatically give over control of that PCI device when you turn on the virtual machine

Hi, I also had to set up a PCI nic because of the operating system i was using did not support Wireshark. I had a lot of issues using the command line and manual XML because i am also new to a lot of the unraid but there is a really easy way to manage all the PCI stuff by using virt manager. have a look at this post Virt Manager is much more powerful to use than what unraid has in-built. Once you have set up virt manager, all you will need to do is go into your virtual machines hardware settings and add a new "PCI Host Device". just make sure you don't select your Eth0 device, since that will pass over what unraid uses for management. Vert manager will actually have a little "(eth0)" or "(eth1)" at the end of the device name in the pci hardware list to make this even easier. If you want to switch what unraid uses as Eth0, take the array offline, then go "Settings > Network Settings > Interfaces Rules section" you will see the network devices as MAC addresses. switch these around. Lastly, if you have trouble seeing the device in your PCI hardware list you may need to check IOMMU setting in your motherboard bios

Sorry, this might be a bit of a late reply but if your VM OS supports hibernation then Unraid does not need to support save and pause, its not as fast but its definitly faster then traditional boot and will save all your work. I have set all my virtual machines (i use ubuntu and windows mostly) to detect "power" button press to be hibernation instead of power off. This will make the Virtual Machine OS go into hibernation and save its RAM content to the non volatile disk storage. When unraid tells machines to turn off, it is aware of the state of the virtual machine so it wont force shut it down before ram is cached to storage. The same will happen when you tell unraid to shut down, it will automatically tell all the virtual machines that the "power button" has been pressed and they will start hibernating. Comes in very handy when unraid runs on a boot schedual. my server turns off at night and starts in the morning automatically to lower power bills. i hate losing work so hibernation is pefect. only thing i wish unraid had is actual virtual checkpoints, so that i could save/load states when doing risky changes like in HyperV

Sorry if this is a bit late but it is very possible, you can use the mount command that looks like this for unassigned devices: mount -t cifs //192.168.0.37/D /mnt/disks -o username=krys,password=*****,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777 and then use the user scripts plugin to automate the running of the script. I don't actually know how you can set a delay per se but if you know your reboot schedule then using a custom cron time works just fine. I put my computer to rest every night automatically to save power and setting a cron time 5-10 minutes after the normal boot time works just fine for all my 20-30 docker instances. it annoying that such a simple feature is not available on unraid but this is how i solved my issue with internal vm's hosting thier own smb shares for dockers. Edit: running the command over and over again does not cause any harm either so you can just run it every 5 minutes if you really wanted to. not sure if it temporarily breaks storage for dockers but in all the testing i have done the server pics up on whatever it left after a second or two after realizing the storage location is available again.

Hi, i am new to unraid, i was hoping someone could help me out in creating a script to mount a SMB with cron/user scripts plugin. From what i am aware of there is no way to delay the mounting of SMB shares at boot but i can see there are a few commands that allow you to mount on request via scripts. Even a simple script that will make the mount to be reattempted will work fine. Why do i need this?...well i have windows vm which is also a share host. the reason i cannot just host this share via unraid and then have windows deal with it is because the software on the windows machine requires the disk to be local and even when remote mounted with a drive letter it complains. This all means the auto mount on boot does not work because the vm has not yet turned on in time for unraid to be able to mount it. Please help me out. been trying to figure this out for ages! will be forever grateful