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    [SOLVED] How to play Genshin Impact on Gaming VM

    in VM Templates

    Posted · Edited by zognic

    Hello,

     

    If you plan to run the game Genshin Impact on your UnRAID Gaming VM, you will face to this message. 

    "Sorry, this application cannot run under a Virtual Machine."

    It can be fixed by adding this parameter inside the XML template at CPU part

      

    <cpu mode='host-passthrough' check='none'>
	...
    <feature policy='disable' name='hypervisor'/>
</cpu>

    It work from my side, but someone know if it can impact the overall performances of the system?

     

     

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    Change Unraid IP checklist

    in General Support

    Posted

    Hi There,

     

    I plan to make some change on my home network configuration, and I will move from a classic 192.168.1.x /24 to another IP range.
    I would like to know if there is some best practice about UnRAID's IP reconfiguration.

     

    I have dockers like swag (letsencrypt), DuckDNS, cloudflare, rad/sonarr, plex, deluge, ombi and few VM.

    I created a Wireguard Tunnel with peer access

    I've setup some reverse proxy and I've created also a custom docker network (proxynet ;) )

     

    Could you help me for the checklist after IP change?

    Thanks in advance for your help

     

    BR

     

    Zog

     

     

    [Solved] Intel UHD 630 integrated GPU & adding a new NVIDIA GPU passthrough performance

    in VM Engine (KVM)

    Posted

    I changed since my configuration ;)

     

    Unraid boot on Intel UHD Graphic card  and I PassThrough my new Geforce GTX 1650 super on my Gaming VM.

     

    Now my PLex can HW Transcode with Intel GPU like a charm and I can play recent games (Full HD Ultra) on my all devices with the winning combination of GeForce Exp & Moonlight or Parsec. With the help of some tweek I can say that my VM is now really close to baremetal.

     

     

     

     

    [Solved] Intel UHD 630 integrated GPU & adding a new NVIDIA GPU passthrough performance

    in VM Engine (KVM)

    Posted

    Thanks testdasi for your answers

     

    Mainly Emulators (Dolphins/PSPPP)

    I was thinking about a GTX 1650 / 1660 Super

    but best wish is to be able to play in 1080p with high settings (around 50 fps could be ok)  Red Dead Redemption 2 & Assassin Creed Odyssey would be the big deal.

     

    But My really first interrogation is more on the performance when I'm browsing the VM, it's not really smooth and I don't know if it's related to the Graphic Card.

     

    [Solved] Intel UHD 630 integrated GPU & adding a new NVIDIA GPU passthrough performance

    in VM Engine (KVM)

    Posted · Edited by zognic
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    Hi there,

     

    I need your advice about VM and GPU passthrough

    Today I have only one Intel UHD 630 integrated GPU provided by the intel Core i5 9600K. It's my primary card and I use it also for HW acceleration into PLEX 

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    It works like a charm but today I want to do more with my Unraid by creating a dedicated VM for Gaming.

    By Gaming VM I mean, I would like to GameStream my games (with moonlight) in order to be able to play them on my Nvidia Shield or other devices

     

    Today I created a VM on vdisk  & I passthrough my Intel GPU on it, it works, but the performance are really bad (not smooth at all). And one constraint is when the VM is running, Plex docker lost the HW acceleration (I guess it's normal)

    1 - First question, is it normal that GPU performance are really bad? (maybe because I'm sharing the same card for unraid & VM?)

     

    Now I plan to buy a Nvidia GPU card and dedicated it to the VM.

    2 - Question, can I expect a lot of performance improvement  by dedicating a GPU card to the VM?

    3 - Should I think about passthrough other HW to gain perfs? Like a dedicated NIC?

     

    For other VM improvement , I followed recommendation from SpaceinvaderOne.

    Unfortunately I didn't succeed to install the VM on my unassigned NVME drive (WD black), I will create a dedicated post later on it.

    atm VM is running on vdisk (ssd) 

     

    Also if someone have a good experience with VM / Moonlight (Dolphin Streaming) and who can share his best practice, I will be grateful

     

    Thanks in advance for your recommendations

     

    Julien

     

     

     

     

     

     

    [SOLVED] Flash corrupted ? can't boot on gui

    in General Support

    Posted

    the misspellings was due to my typing ;)

     

    My first question is if I redo a Flash USB , I will lost everything? or just some configuration?

    Can I try it? Should I backup something first?

     

    I have only 1 HDD for the array and 1 SSD for the Cache. I don't want to loose all docker configuration :(

     

    inside /boot I have a lot of FSK***.rec files and some files but no config / plugins folders

     

     

     

     

     

    [SOLVED] Flash corrupted ? can't boot on gui

    in General Support

    Posted

    Hello,

     

    following a reboot after some changes on VM configuration, I'm not able to boot on gui anymore. 

    warning: file_put_contents(/boot/config/plugins/dynamix/monitor.cron): failed to open stream: not such file ofr directory in /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/dynamix/include Wrappers.php on line 26

    And when I look into the /boot/config/ I don't see the folder "plugins"

    Is it mean that the USB Flash drive has been corrupted ?

    How can I fix it ? or recover ?

     

    Thanks for your support

     

     

    Beginner who need some advice to start

    in General Support

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, testdasi said:

    Regardless of team Red or Green, I would recommend you do a quick search (e.g. let's say you want to buy the AMD RX 580 then search for that on the forum to see if others have had any issue. hint: don't get the RX 580).

    🤗 good hint, I will take it as an advice for all kind of research

     

    For AMD I've thought it was fixed by the last release of unRAID, maybe I'm wrong?

    14 minutes ago, testdasi said:

    There are workarounds to avoid error code 43 that may (or may not) work but it can happen to any model.

    So appart Quadro there is no recommendation? it's like playing with the lottery?

     

    Based upon this, I will not add too much bucks on the Graphic cards...

     

    Beginner who need some advice to start

    in General Support

    Posted

    19 minutes ago, testdasi said:

    Plex can share cores with all other dockers. You can set the Plex docker parameter such that Plex will have a higher priority and thus gets more CPU power when it needs to (instead of having Plex-only cores).

    Interesting, I need to learn how to do this :)

     

    Regarding multi-threading algorithm, it's a good news, I thought that split the vCPU use from their physical Core could really impact latency.

     

    Regarding GPU pass through I wasn't know it was inside the impossible bucket  ;) Do you have some recommendation on a correct GPU Card (around 100$) who could do the job?

     

     

    Beginner who need some advice to start

    in General Support

    Posted

    8 hours ago, testdasi said:

    One thing I don't seem to see anyone mentioning about dual-booting is that you might run into issues with Windows activation since every boot the OS sees a new "motherboard".

    Very good remark, and yes it was mentioned by SpaceInvaderOne , you can pass through the windows activation issue by using the same  UUID of the motherboard (who was activated on the Baremetal windows) on the VM's XML file.

     

    8 hours ago, testdasi said:

    I still think for a "complete Media Center Experience", you are better off with a dedicated GPU so you can watch stuff through the VM (via the dedicated GPU) while Unraid does other things e.g. download, manage your media (e.g. Plex), NAS storage etc so you don't have to restart your computer.

    I need more explanation on that point, you mean If I use the iGPU for my windows VM, other Stuff like plex decode will not work? 

     

    Regarding CPU & Latency, honestly I can image to shutdown Plex if I need more ressources for the VM, but as I will have 6 Cores, I plan to pin some CPU for dedicated use. On schema below, I could have 2 different Plex docker container, one when I use the VM and another one when the VM is shutdown.

    (Only 1 VM will be running in the same time)

     

    Maybe this Pinned CPU strategy could be optimized, what do you think?

     

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    Beginner who need some advice to start

    in General Support

    Posted · Edited by zognic

    Thanks testdasi for your reply

     

    To answer to your first question, mainly use will be to have a NAS for complete Media Center Experience, but I expect to have the possibility to play with Windows and to have an environnement to continue to improve Linux competencies

     

    For the access, the server will be connected to a TV Screen (for first install & troubleshooting) but after that , I will connect remotely to the VM (with my windows laptop) with WoL plugin & Splashtop and maybe run game remotly with moonlight. For the Windows VM I just saw a youtube video from "SpaceInvaderOne" about "how to dual boot windows baremetal & unraid then boot the same windows as a vm", it sounds like very interesting. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnIn6GnA87c)

     

    As I not really expected to buy a dedicated GPU card, I can imagine the intel HD graphic could be enough for my use, Is it really necessary to buy GPU card for setup a windows VM? (very newbee on that side)

     

    Can we imagine to have NVME drive dedicated to windows (as baremetal) and, the old SSD as dedicated drive for Downloads activities? (in case of old SDD crash no important data will be lost) 

    Other VM will be stored on the SSD cache (MX500) Drive 

     

     

     

     

     

    Beginner who need some advice to start

    in General Support

    Posted

    Hello community,

     

    Future "unRaid" user, I'm building at the moment my HW config.

    At this point I need some advice to move forward with the hardware configuration/setup

     

    First what would be my use

    • Plex HW Transcode with locally no more than 2 streams in parallels and 1 remote (mainly 1080p)
    • Store Media & Backups
    • Daily Download activity with Radarr/Sonarr (small 25mb internet speed)
    • Simple web hosting (nginx/Letsencrypt) very very few traffic
    • Some other light Dockers
    • Be able to run 2 VM (linux and Windows) for Office activities
    • Option, be able to play light game on the windows VM (store 2/3 games max)

     

    My current HW

    • Intel Core i5-9600K (3.7 GHz / 4.6 GHz)
    • Gigabyte Z390M Gaming
    • No GPU card
    • RAM 16 Go (2 x 8 Go) DDR4 2666 MHz
    • Crucial SSD  MX500 SATA 2,5'' -  500Go
    • OLD Crucial SSD m500 SATA 2,5'' - 120gb (don't know if I will include it inside the build)
    • WD Black SN750 SSD NVMe - 250Go
    • Seagate Barracuda 2To
    • Not yet purchased + 1 or 2 Seagate Barracuda 2To

     

    For the setup

    I did not get the occasion to play yet with unraid, but this is what I can imagine we can do.

     

    Use the Seagate for the Array (no parity yet, and build parity later with the 2 new Seagate)

    Create a cache with the Crucial MX500 SSD to store

    • /appdata
    • /Dockers
    • /Download folder?

    Use the WD Black NVME has dedicated SSD to store the VMs (possible?) 

     

    Open points

    • I have some doubt on where I should store the Download folder (direct on the Cache SSD? or Array with "preferred cache" option?)
    • For VM is it possible or is it a good idea to dedicate the NVME SSD?
    • If the OLD SSD 120g could be an asset for this config?
    • Is it simple (and without loosing data) to move from a configuration 1 disk array to 3 disks with 1 parity?

     

    Base on all this information, I would like to know if this setup is coherent or not, and if you can suggest some advice on how to improve it

     

    Thanks in advance