Hey guys, I am very new to unRAID, have just gotten unRAID up and running last week and transferred a lot of data to it. As I want to run a VM for Lightroom/Photoshop on my workstation/server, I followed Spaceinvader One's video. I have everything set up as he has

 

Although I have a MSI GeForce RTX2070 Super Gaming X Trio installed, as Spaceinvader One says, use VNC first, which I did. When I start up the VM, I see CPU's always going to 100% and then subsequently crashing unRAID. and I even played around with how many logical CPU's should be active, as well as Initial RAM memory, but this did not make a difference. I have found a few articles.

 

From this article : https://forums.unraid.net/topic/91319-solved-vm-start-upshutdown-crashes-unraid/ I have already disabled the WSD, which should help and here https://forums.unraid.net/topic/69868-dealing-with-unclean-shutdowns/ I have increased the shutdown time of the VM and the disks in the settings, but still no difference (both articles are not really to counter the CPU going to 100% nor crashing unRAID, but this should help in not having the unclean shutdown, but I still have the unclean shutdowns, with the Parity check after. In my test now, I have 1 14TB drive installed and 2*12TB drives, to help with the speed of checking Parity.

 

I then found this article : Which is the problem I am having. I see adding a code "pcie_no_flr=1022:149c,1022:1487" to the boot parameters.

 

But I have NO IDEA where I have to input this? There is no mention of that anywhere? Is that under user shares in system or something like that? I have tried looking there yesterday, but gave up, as I also don't want my system to become unstable, while it is running pretty well now (except for the VM).

If I have to share any setup info, let me know, I'll be happy to post.

Also want to state that I was wanting to put in the Ryzen 9 5900x CPU, but you can't get it anywhere, so currently setup is :

ASUS ROG Strix x570-E, Ryzen 5 3600 6-core, 64GB RAM (ECC) and RTX2070 Super Gaming x Trio 8GB and Corsair HX 1200i PSU, watercooled in a Meshify 2XL case.

I have split your post into its own thread. 

 

Go to Tools-Diagnostics and attach the complete Diagnostics ZIP file to your NEXT post in this thread 

Hi Trurl,

Thanks a lot for that. I thought to post in the other thread, as others might have the same problem of not finding where to put the source code.

Hereby the zip file.

leonore-diagnostics-20210131-1819.zip

That other thread was very old and for a different version than you have.

 

 

Hey trurl, thanks a lot, but I don't see my problem listed? I have read about freezing up unRAID having to do with a BIOS setting on power. 

I don't really know how to proceed? I was looking through 

too, but I don't see a mention of when starting a VM, my unRAID freezes up completely?  I have really looked on the forum for similar posts, and read a lot, before posting, but I still can't figure out how to solve the issue?

 

Thank you in advance. 

Okay, so I have done the BIOS settings changeover, as stated in one of the articles.. Sadly, when starting the VM, I see my cores going to 100% again (even those that are NOT used by the VM). I was just too late in getting a screenshot, but now it crashed again.

 

So in my BIOS, I set Global C-state Control from Auto to Disabled

and Power Supply idle Control from Auto to Typical Current Idle

 

But I still need to hard reset my unRAID...  So as expected, it sadly didn't do anything...

Edited February 1, 20215 yr by DrBobke
added :

Talking to another user, he helped me understand some things.. It seems it was down to the sound card that I activated (Matisse).  When I put that to "NO", it was all fine, but now ofcourse, I won't get any sound through my VM - so need to get into that...

 

I did have another problem, that the VNC showed a command shell, but I got that fixed by the following article : 

Which helped me - setting the BIOS in the VM itself, actually did the trick. I did notice, that when I put in a sound card, the VM crashed every time.