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  1. 2 rigs mostly the same: AMD Ryzen 3900x processor, Gigabyte Motherboard X570 Aorus Ultra and Elite wifi, Various graphics cards. Vega frontier liquid is my best. Various drives, NVME, SSD 3.5 spinners. Currently 1 is my Unraid server (4 years running), 1 is my main hackintosh dedicated machine running solely on a 2TB 970 NVME. Goal: 1. Spread hardware utilization across both machines. 2. Allow simultaneous VM's on my main hackintosh without compromising core Hackintosh functionality. Story: I've always been a laptop vs. desktop questioner. I've landed more to desktop power user experience. This debate has grown and morphed more to a main dedicated rig vs. adding complication for it's benefits with Unraid allowing multiple VM's simultaneously. I used to run multiple VMs with Unraid including my main MacOS. I eventually switched this to 2 rigs: Unraid and my main dedicated Hackintosh. X570 isn't big on IO.. I expanded my slots and busses to the max and it wasn't enough. I used to run a small boot ssd and have a larger NVME data drive I would symlink to until I was able to get a 2TB NVME and just rock it. When you symlink in macOS things are different. It's hard to keep track of applications. Some can be on the symlinked drive but most cannot. There are other downsides. Questions: 1. How can I get my APFS bootable OC hackintosh drives to boot as a VM? I've tried passing the unassigned top level disk ID through a linux template as Sata just to find my Bootloader have no disks available. When I pass a drive through to an existing MacOS VM, it's not visible in space invaders OC boot loader, but when I have the os running I can see and use the disk. So I'm getting blocked somehow for booting from one of these drives. This is my biggest question. 2. What is your opinion about running a macOS VM on Unraid as your main computer? Reliable, stable? Compromises? Improvements? 3. Suggestions for me if my goal is to keep my existing hackintosh's current abilities but free up much of the hardwares unused resources by rebuilding it on top of Unraid? I'd like to buy another Unraid License, run one of my 2 liquid Vega frontiers on my hackintosh in a windows vm rather than moving it over to my existing Unraid rig. I question things since I haven't been able to successfully pass through and boot off an unassigned physical MacOS disk yet. My alternative is to move a Vega FE over to my existing Unraid rig and easily run it on a windows vm there, then just not change my main Mac.
  2. I found the answer on redit and it worked right away unlike many other pieces of advice online. Solution: Enter this into the nextcloud docker console from unraid: sudo -u abc php /config/www/nextcloud/occ maintenance:mode --off No changing anything, for example abc doesn't need to be changed to a user name...
  3. Hi, This is essentially my issue. 18.0.3 got to the blue page and installed so it seemed, except it landed on maintenance mode even though it's not what I had selected. I would like to know solutions to get out of maintenance mode. I've tried some commands in the terminal from the nextcloud docker app but nothing successful so far. I also do not know how to revert to 17.0.5.0 (Which is the last version in my backups folder on my Nextcloud share). Thanks for any help.
  4. Great idea! I haven't yet for multiple reasons but I should! 1. I gave my mac vm a dedicated usb card which is super! But now I am out of available motherboard pcie slots. 2. I haven't got as Techie as I probably should with passing through 2 of the motherboard usb controllers I hear that I can! - I'm on the edge of being happy with what I have vs. using my old hardware and returning this ram, mobo and proc to hold out for Zen 3. Ridiculous probably. I do have a 7700k and i5-8400 with mobos sitting for sale as weirdos from across the country lowball me. If I were too get rid of my current mobo, why invest in hacking it? But yea, I'll probably stay the course on selling my older zombie-load equipment. 3. With my M705 mouse plugged into the motherboard and passed to macos, the second m705 mouse plugged into the usb card passed to macos did nothing. Didn't bring confidence. But I know windows can behave more favorably all around and possibly having 2 of the same in macos ever- just isn't a viable option. Taking the time with the scientific method on discovering what is true.. ain't nobody got... But yea, my goal is to have the 1 machine have with next to no compromizes, a windows engineering workstation and a mac vm with software KVM sharing (synergy- working nicely currently) while also running other VM's and dockers. I susbscribe to the incorrect syntax of "dockers" love it. So this is all mostly in place aside from the basic logic that man, I really need to be able to hotswap USB with my windows vm! So a long winded fun explanation of how right you are Green Eyed Monster 🙂
  5. #nextlevel I might get to trying that tonight. At least soon. Not only do I have a lot of the same graphics cards, but I have 2 Logitech M705 Mice I think would be pretty cool to use. So far I can't see how to use any when both are connected. Could this help with that?
  6. I can't find "/boot/config/vfio-pci.cfg". I'm not familiar with this. Below you can see I'm doing a similar thing with "vfio-pci.ids=1106:3483,14e4:43a0". using device ID's rather than IOMMU groups as you say. Though, the in the second pic for one of my cards there it shows IOMMU group#, then Device ID, then the number set you're referring to. However it's called, I don't see where I can implement what you say. I have Krusader and can peruse my file system. At the root there is a boot folder but it is empty. No where else in Unraid do I see boot. Also I can get as I said earlier my cards to run simultaneously now. What do you think this bind function might do? And is it different than the device ID "leave me alone Unraid!" command as I have shown in my "Unraid OS" section in green below. I'm about to reboot after kicking out 2 device ID's that were there- that I don't now see in my device list anymore. My video off was done as you say but didn't behave as you said, so the only thing I know to try is to see if knocking off those 2 non existent device id's will change anything.
  7. Awesome. This bind thing I have yet to try. And from what you say the result of "video=efifb:off" after "append initrd=/bzroot" should be- I must have messed up this operation because the unraid monitor never froze afterwards. And quite exciting, after some Linus and other youtube videos on PCIE, each new generation is basically 4x better, which makes me think my 3900x is 4x better in terms of lanes rather than apples to apples of another cpu architecture with a similarly stated number of available lanes. So s PCIE 3.0 gfx card like all of ours right now, should only need 4 lanes on gen 4 platforms to run their equivelant of 16 lanes with gen 3. Much more to look into and try, but this gives a lot of exciting hope and I'm surprised it's not used as a sales pitch!
  8. Thank you, I absolutely love it when I'm understood and reciprocated with. By you but not just you. This thread is my only unraid forum experience so far, and so far it's very supportive and helpful. A lot of nasty forums out there. Also this topic is so in the weeds, it's great to engage with like minded folks. None of the IT people or other engineers at my work can even begin to understand or have interest in anything past basic computer use. So yea, the language bifurcation... In this context, thank you for that. Splitting lanes physically and I don't know how to say or refer too cogently: splitting the system lanes- is exactly the next thing I need to look into. I'm assuming when I do, that anything split off of one slot has to go to the same vm. I'll definitely look into this after work. Thank you.
  9. I've set up Invaders reset scripts for my vega cards, but for some time now this is supposed to have been resolved without the need for the scripts. But I AM having reset problems sometimes, I just can't yet pin down the exact cause. Still ironing things out. I'd definitely try again with Macos. I'm using invaders macinabox docker app for my hackintosh vm and it's isolated things very well. I symlink my home folder to a TB SSD in unassigned drives, the docker image is it's own image rather than a hidden EFI drive on another disk! I love this. I have like a 60 gig system virtural drive that acts as my main drive even though I consider my main drive my home folder. I can open my config.plist in clover and make out which drive it's on quite easily and make changes that work. Though I don't know the magic knobs to turn if there even are any for ram improvements. I haven't tried to see about hardware acceleration with the vega. How do you check if that is working? My vega cards are the frontier editions. They never get any love. Until the 7's came along, I think they had a 2 year window of being the best cards ever. period. I bought way too many. Still paying them off. I have some computers with 12, but nothing that would work well as a workstation. I wish I could swing the nicest threadripper and run more cards, but I think I can scroll iphoto and drive CAD each with 1 OS having 1 card for now. The FE is a 14 nm 7 with memory that's not clocked as high as the 7. A 2017 card with 16gb HBM2 :-) I applied the syslinux add on tag of turning off the unraid need for a graphics card. I got windows and mac to boot with a gfx card at the same time. But I see unraid is still displaying out of my quadro card so I'm not sure if adding that tag did anything or if it was simply changing my windows vm ram and assigning it's gfx card audio to be on the same bus and slot with device 1. Personal life allocated almost no time to tinker after work yesterday either. I look forward to working with it this evening. Though I'm out of tricks to try. I'll just be working on little things and maybe backing up some more vm stuff. I plan to set up my Symless synergy with my windows vm, and get my AMD drivers going. Did I mention I saw AMD has mac drivers listed on their site? I need to see what that's about. I've understood that AMD drivers are only built into macos and not anything you can modify. I'm using a G5 case there. Though I first did a mac pro. Mac pro cases give you less motherboard room and stick the PSU up in the back. They're cool too. Just more tight. I plan to cut 2 G5 cases apart and weld them together with doors on both sides :-) Know anything about maximizing pcie slots and effective gfx card use? I really don't want a gfx card taken up by unraid. I'm uneducatedly nervous about pcie lane limitations on x570 with the 3900x
  10. Hey there nice build! I'm feeling a lot of parallels here but where I've got slightly lower spec'd items than you. I've got the Auorus x570 pro wifi with 3900X. 2 vega frontier cards and a quadro 4000. 32G 3600MHz CL16. Currently I have vega in slots 1 and 2, and the quadro in 3. 1 vega for MacOS, 1 vega for Windows, quadro for unraid- webui and possibly HW acceleration for plex. When I have 1 vega running in a vm, if I turn on the other, it will shut off what's running! Do you know why or how to fix this? If macos is running and I start windows, it will shut down mac. I'm kind of freaking out about it. Also if you know how to optimize macos that would be cool. I've tried various smbios tweaks. ram always shows DDR3, and I feel like the benchmarking scores could be higher.
  11. Hi guys, I can really relate with Johnsanc. I've been invested in Unraid for about 2 months vigorously watching spaceinvader ones guides. I got pretty far and lost all my data (I of course had backups) due to essentially the issues discussed here. With the main difference (Maybe it's the same) that 1 of my 2 120GB SSD identical cache drives randomly mounts upon a reboot. Currently for example, I have Cache 2 filled and things are fine. After losing my data due to being a newb and fail safes still missing in 6.7.2 and .3, I am very reluctant to trust a single cache drive. Even if it is my hardware having a lemon taste, I would like to have a system in place to prevent failure of all vested data, dockers and vm's. My tribulations got me to live by a personal motto of: "My server is only as good as the reference guide I've created for all my work." I've got an 80 page word document going so far. What's super amazing for me is having the "Table of Contents" functionality. Everything is linked, and I keep the sidebar up and can jump around and organize large collections of text like never before. It's awesome. I'm reluctant to start due to failure (Which is dumb), but I know I need to work on some backup and restore settings to automatically keep files on the array that I'll be able to use to rebuild VM's and Dockers. I find it difficult to find information like this thread about cache disk and cache data management and essential operability and reliability steps/ practices. There is from what I can tell, still very much a need for it. I remain not confident on the subject and would enjoy more information.