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I recently added a lot of my photos from my HDD in the array to my immich photo library and now it is probably analysing, face detecting, transcoding, doing AI magic and what not. As I didn't pin any CPUs to the container, the result is that now my Unraid UI is not connectable anymore and I cannot SSH into the machine anymore. Ping works though and I can see the light at the tower flashing so it is still doing stuff obviously. Is there a chance my server will be reachable again after the photo session has ended or is this now b0rked and I have to take down the machine? I would gladly avoid that if I could. Thanks for helping out a non-expert on this case!

Is anybody else also having issues with updating deconz recently? The Unraid docker update check is giving me a version "not available" lately and I don't seem to be able to fix this. Help is appreaciated.

It might be your motherboard, I think at least in my case it was where the root problem lies. I can't see your specs and I am also not an expert since I gave up on this. But you might investigate in that direction before getting any other graphics card.

No I gave up after trying to get the system to work with an additional GPU. The problem was that a) whenever I had a dedicated GPU installed m iGPU was deactivated and b) when I had both a GT 710 and the 1050 Ti installed, I couldn't choose which one of them was primary and c) I still couldn't successfully pass the secondary GPU (sadly the GT 710) to the VM. The problem is probably the MoBo/Bios which doesn't give enough options to trick the VM into accepting the card. Bummer...

Ok thanks anyway. Maybe I can replace the umlauts with my mediocre Linux skills prior to conversion. Have to Google my way through this.

Too bad. Anything I can do about it?

OK my latest issues were relates to me being not able to use Comskip properly Resolved by setting output to edl file Another thing: Recordings converter seems to fail on file names with German umlauts (ä, ö, ü). If I rename the files, everything is working fine. @dee31797: have you witnessed something like that before?

This helps, thank you a lot. That indeed is killer and might work out well in my (somewhat) complex setup I will give it a whirl then, thanks. Edit: So I could first comskip from folder a to folder b and watch folder b to get it autoconverted, right? Edit2: Auto-comskip does cut the ads out of the file if it finds them, right? I have tested some files and apart from stripping some redundant streams (e.g. teletext ) nothing happened and the files are as long as before. I use a comskip.ini for germany. Don't where to start to debug this. Any option I am missing? Any help is appreciated.

Just found out about this fantastic plugins/docker images, great work. I have a question about ComSkip and Recordings-autoconverter: I keep my recordings in sub-folders (like recordings/Some Show/Season 01/Some Episode - S01E01.ts) because this is how nextpvr (which I am using) is set to handle and this gives me best compatibility with Plex and Emby, since they use the same structure for automatic matches. Do the two plugins support working with subfolders also for the output? Putting all recordings in a single folder would require manual intervention which I would want to avoid. Thanks for helping.

Great to here. I will smack in a GT 710 as main GPU and keep fingers crossed.

True, I described the issue in more detail here: It is a premade system from Fujitsu with a proprietary PSU, so I cannot upgrade it. The cherry on top was, that the iGPU got disabled as soon as I plugged in the 1050 Ti. So I was left there with only one GPU. Since the 1050 Ti should only consume 75 W at maximum, I was hoping to get it to work... I thought about smacking in a 710 GT, but as you say this would have probably not worked due to the low-powered PSU, so I also discarded that option. In the end, I would have never known if the issue was driver/mainboard/passthrough related or if it was due to the underpowered PSU. But GPUs together (1050 Ti and GT 710) would have accounted for 75+35=110 W. Only 140 W left for the rest.... When the machine was idle, i registered around 40 W of energy consumption.

Thanks for your reply, but it came differently.... Since I only have a 250 W PSU which I cannot swap (thanks for that Fujitsu) I went for a GTX 1050 Ti and sent prayers to the low power gods that it still might work. End of story is, that I could not pass it through to the VM (I still don't know why) and therefore I had to bury this project before it even started...

Nevertheless, thanks for your help.

It was already set to legacy, although my bios says this does not affect video cards. Set it to UEFI now, since I am desperate Edit: Surprise, didn't help

You probably mean the machine's BIOS... Unraid won't boot for me when I try to boot it into legacy mode, but I will look for that option is it is available.

Ok, thanks already for the effort.

Thanks for the input, didn´t help me unfortunately. Does it matter which vendor_id is used?

Thanks for chiming in. I ordered a GT 710 which I hope I can use as primary GPU, but I don't even know if this will help. Hope I can return it in case my motherboard doesn't accept it or it doesn't help with the VM. I feel a bit lost here, I hoped I can toss the PS4 controller into the corner

Dear fellow passthroughers, I am new to this whole VM passthrough thingie but did my best to passthrough my GTX 1050 Ti -> but failed. My machine is a Fujitsu Primergy TX 1310 M3 pre-built server with Xeon E3-1225 v6 and a C236 board from Fujitsu (D3521-A1). The graphics card is an ASUS GeForce® GTX 1050 Ti Cerberus Advanced 4GB, the vBios I got from this unoffical techpowerup Bios https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/198967/198967 and hex edited the header away. Strangely, my iGPU of the Xeon is deactivated since I put the 1050 in. So the 1050 is the primary and only GPU. The Bios has no option for graphics whatsoever. I had to enable PCIE ACS override (set it to downstream), the IOMMU groups now look like this: IOMMU group 0: [8086:5918] 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 05) IOMMU group 1: [8086:1901] 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller (x16) (rev 05) IOMMU group 2: [8086:a12f] 00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 31) [8086:a131] 00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family Thermal Subsystem (rev 31) IOMMU group 3: [8086:a13a] 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 31) IOMMU group 4: [8086:a102] 00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Q170/Q150/B150/H170/H110/Z170/CM236 Chipset SATA Controller [AHCI Mode] (rev 31) IOMMU group 5: [8086:a149] 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation C236 Chipset LPC/eSPI Controller (rev 31) [8086:a121] 00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family Power Management Controller (rev 31) [8086:a123] 00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family SMBus (rev 31) IOMMU group 6: [8086:15b7] 00:1f.6 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (2) I219-LM (rev 31) IOMMU group 7: [10de:1c82] 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti] (rev a1) [10de:0fb9] 01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GP107GL High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1) My machine is only able to boot Unraid in UEFI mode, in Legacy mode I get the message that the USB drive is not bootable. In VM setup, I tried every combination that I could imagine: i4770fx/Q35: with Q35 there was always an unknown device in Device Manager of Win10 SEA-Bios/OMVF: Both boot and yield similar results Hyper-V on/off: Both boot and yield similar results "paired" the GPU and sound device of the 1050 Ti via space invaders route (mutlifunction) but also tried to only passthrough the GPU. Attached is the config that I thought is best, with i4770fx and OMVF and Hyper-V on: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <domain type='kvm'> <name>Windows 10 - UEFI - i440fx</name> <uuid>25a754ed-b851-98ce-0a5c-b20e66778a0f</uuid> <metadata> <vmtemplate xmlns="unraid" name="Windows 10" icon="windows.png" os="windows10"/> </metadata> <memory unit='KiB'>8388608</memory> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>8388608</currentMemory> <memoryBacking> <nosharepages/> </memoryBacking> <vcpu placement='static'>4</vcpu> <cputune> <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='0'/> <vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='1'/> <vcpupin vcpu='2' cpuset='2'/> <vcpupin vcpu='3' cpuset='3'/> </cputune> <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-4.2'>hvm</type> <loader readonly='yes' type='pflash'>/usr/share/qemu/ovmf-x64/OVMF_CODE-pure-efi.fd</loader> <nvram>/etc/libvirt/qemu/nvram/25a754ed-b851-98ce-0a5c-b20e66778a0f_VARS-pure-efi.fd</nvram> </os> <features> <acpi/> <apic/> <hyperv> <relaxed state='on'/> <vapic state='on'/> <spinlocks state='on' retries='8191'/> <vendor_id state='on' value='none'/> </hyperv> </features> <cpu mode='host-passthrough' check='none'> <topology sockets='1' cores='4' threads='1'/> </cpu> <clock offset='localtime'> <timer name='hypervclock' present='yes'/> <timer name='hpet' present='no'/> </clock> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>restart</on_crash> <devices> <emulator>/usr/local/sbin/qemu</emulator> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='writeback'/> <source file='/mnt/user/domains/Windows 10 - UEFI - i440fx/vdisk1.img'/> <target dev='hdc' bus='virtio'/> <boot order='1'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/> </disk> <disk type='file' device='cdrom'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/> <source file='/mnt/user/isos/Win10_1909_German_x64.iso'/> <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/> <readonly/> <boot order='2'/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/> </disk> <disk type='file' device='cdrom'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/> <source file='/mnt/user/isos/virtio-win-0.1.160-1.iso'/> <target dev='hdb' bus='ide'/> <readonly/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='1'/> </disk> <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'/> <controller type='ide' index='0'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x1'/> </controller> <controller type='virtio-serial' index='0'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> </controller> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='nec-xhci' ports='15'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0'/> </controller> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='52:54:00:cc:0d:28'/> <source bridge='br0'/> <model type='virtio'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/> </interface> <serial type='pty'> <target type='isa-serial' port='0'> <model name='isa-serial'/> </target> </serial> <console type='pty'> <target type='serial' port='0'/> </console> <channel type='unix'> <target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/> <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='1'/> </channel> <input type='tablet' bus='usb'> <address type='usb' bus='0' port='1'/> </input> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/> <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x01' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </source> <rom file='/mnt/user/system/198967.rom'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0' multifunction='on'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x01' slot='0x00' function='0x1'/> </source> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x1'/> </hostdev> <memballoon model='none'/> </devices> </domain> Here, I can connect via Teamviewer and navigate through Windows GUI and the graphics card shows as GTX 1050 Ti, but with Code 43 Error. The vBios is the one linked above, I also tried to dump my own bios, but since I have no other graphics card in the machine, this has probably failed (can I dump the vbios, when my GPU is the only GPU?). So what else can I do? 0. Legacy booting Unraid does not work on any of the USB ports and with any of the Bios settings. 1. Get another 1050 Ti that has a "valid"/verified entry at techpowerup? 2. Get a cheap GPU as primary GPU and dump the vBios? - do I need to dump the vBios if I use the 1050 Ti as secondary GPU? Any help is appreciated, also stating the obvious, as I said I am new to this.

Regarding choice of graphics card: If been reading a lot about passthrough but I am not sure which GPU to get for gaming in a Windows 10 VM. Are Radeons working properly? Is it depending on the respective model and/or age of the GPU? Is any GeForce working? There is the thread about device compatibility in the VM forum,but this is from 2017 so probably a lot has changed since then. Do I necessarily need a second GPU for running a VM or can I start by using the iGPU of the CPU? I read that unraid reserves one GPU for itself, but I have no clue if this means I have to have a second one for VM usage. I don't have any GPU lying around so since I would need to buy one I want to make the right choice so I don't run into problems when setting up a VM. I probably don't need a high end one, but a GTX 1060 ist probably already sufficient for what I want to do. And by the way I don't plan to use the GPU for transcoding (yet), which I probably leave to the iGPU if possible. Edit: I have researched further and is it true that there are no general statements about GPUs possibly since successful passthrough also depends on the rest of the hardware (CPU, mainboard etc.)? It seems as Radeons should work just fine so I might go for the RX 580 which seems to be a good deal currently.

OK thanks mates. Android app should be fine for me, shell is also ok. I might then also "transfer" my Linux workstation to a VM on that new server and put the workstation away. Not what I planned for in the beginning, but the less devices the better I think I guess I am starting to understand it a little better now how this unraid thing works Thanks for helping a noob out.

Thanks for your answer, it is probably too trivial for anybody already running unraid. I already tried to read a lot to be prepared whenever my server arrives. So if let's say I smack a GeForce into the server and hook up a monitor to it, will I always see the VM output when it runs? Can I pass the video card to multiple VMs if I want to run another one? Can I stop and start VMs apart from the unraid web interface? My experience with VMs is limited to running Virtual box on my Linux machine so that is why I have problems understanding these principles. Maybe something is able to enlighten me, basic stuff like that is disclosed nowhere thanks in advance.

I thought this was an easy one, seems as I am wrong. Guess I have to test it out myself by first trying a "remote" session and if that sucks switching the place of the server to where my desk is...

I have not yet set-up unraid, since I am still waiting for my server to arrive (Christmas break, you know), but I have issues understanding how gaming would work with Unraid. The server will run a Xeon with IGPU in the beginning (E3-1225v6) but might be joined by a GeForce soon. At first, I thought I could simply fire up any remote desktop/vnc app (or moonlight, steam link and the like) and enjoy gaming on my dated laptop. Guess latency will not allow me to play FPS games... So then I guess I need to hook up screen and control devices direcly to my server, is that correct? Will it show the screen of the VM as it boots up? Sorry to ask those noob questions, but I just have not yet fiddled with such a setup and therefore do not get how this works in practice. So if anybody could tell me what best practice for gaming is, I would appreciate it.