I am currently evaluating using unraid for my home media server with my intention to have one or two VMS and some dockers running however my main use will be as gaming machine attached to my tv running Windows 10 which will also likely be running Plex server (unless I can get my USB HD recorder working with Linux).
I have been using Spaceinvaderone's very comprehensive videos to help me work through the setup however I am having a problems passing my GPU through to Windows. I have saved a copy of the bios file using gpu-z and removed the header as Spaceinvaderone’s video suggests however when I run the VM the screen shows no output. A windows VM was fine when using VNC and at one point I passed the GPU and using RDP was able to see it listed as a Generic Windows Display Adapter, I installed some drivers and ever since when launching the VM with the GPU passed through I cannot access the VM, RDP never resolves so I guess it’s blue screening. I also passed the GPU to a Linux VM and even without installing the copy of Ubuntu I don’t get any display output. I’m at a bit of a loss.
Specs are:
Ryzen 7 2700 on a MSI X470 Gaming Pro with latest BIOS. (Just bought this to replace an old 4th gen i5 system as it didn’t support IOMMU)
16Gb DDR4 Memory
Zotac Nvidia GT640 Passive 2GB
USB 3.0 PCIe card and a 6port SATA controller card.
Installed latest stable release of Unraid 6.2?
I’m also not overly happy with the IOMMU on this setup yet as most of my USB controllers as are in a single group 12. I did manage to break them up using the steps noted in Spaceinvaderone’s videos and I passed a couple to Windows but under device manager I get an error on one of the devices, some help on this would be appreciated but the GPU is the first priority.
I’m hoping to use just the single GPU but can put in another if anyone thinks it will help but the bios dump seems to work for most but not me. (Also used a bios from Techpowerup)
I have just updated the bios to the latest version and this has reshuffled Avery thing in the Unraid hardware list so at the moment no USB devices to be passed through yet until I get a chance to re-do the device IDs etc.
Any help would be very appreciated, I’m hoping to get some more hard drives for parity (black Friday if possible) etc but don’t want to commit more to this system if I end up just running Storage Spaces on a bare metal windows 10 (as I did on my old media centre), not where I want to be seeing all the cool stuff Unraid can do!
I've been trying to sort this on off evenings after work for a few weeks and as my evaluation copy of Unraid was on the usb I used on my old machine my trail has all but expired, so will likely use another USB temporarily to see if these issues can be resolved before purchasing a licence. Written this all from memory - let me know if there are any logs or anything that can be of help!
Thanks,
Simon.