I have a windows 11 VM which has been running ok most of the time. But this weekend I cleaned up around my server and removed the keyboard and mouse as they didn't need to be used and every thing runs headless. But now my Windows 11 VM wont boot up as USB device is missing which will be the keyboard and mouse. Is there a way to tell the VM that I don't need them and for it to boot anyway ? There is another issue which isn't a problem but just an annoyance in that the same VM will shut itself down for no reason and this is usually hours not minuities and I normally just restart the VM but thought as I'm asking about the  USB issue.

Is the keyboard issue in the host or in the vm?I mean, is it an error when you start the vm and you get the error in unraid about device not being there, or windows is trying to boot but fails because there's no keyboard?

the issue is with the VM and when I press start to get the win11 VM running I get the error. 

 

Execution error

internal error: Did not find USB device 03f0:0324

 

switch to xml view and delete this block (similar):

    <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb' managed='no'>
      <source>
        <vendor id='0x03f0'/>
        <product id='0x0324'/>
      </source>
      <address type='usb' bus='0' port='2'/>
    </hostdev>

save and try

So just to double check I would delete the entry from between the top and bottom underlined areas i have highlighted.  

Ive not deleted before so sorry for asking just wanting to be sure 

  </video>
    <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb' managed='no'>
      <source>
        <vendor id='0x03f0'/>
        <product id='0x0324'/>
      </source>
      <address type='usb' bus='0' port='1'/>
    </hostdev>
    <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb' managed='no'>

yes, that is correct, save after delete.

thank you for your help it worked had to do the same for the other USB device, but with your guidance no problem.

 

Very much appreciated