Wits End: Can't get VM to even boot

[45nice1]

Hi Everyone,

 

I have worked on this for about a week on and off and just can't get this to work. It just won't work with the two GPUs in the system.

 

The main issue is that the VM pins the first core assigned to 100% utilisation and doesn't boot, or if I try to only boot the 1080, I get nothing on the screen which is also useless. 

 

Setup

 

Xeon E5-2689 V2 

32GB ECC DDR3 

X79 Board

Unraid 6.10.3

GTX 1080 8GB

GTX 1060 3GB 

NVS 310 (currently removed)

 

Solutions I have tried: 

 

1) Moving GPUs to all different combinations - Doesn't stop Code 43 error on the secondary GPU set in Windows 10 VM 

2) Redoing VM and disabling Hyper-V, as per this listing:

 

3) Redoing VM and extracting custom BIOS as per this video: 

 

4) Removing the NVS 310 and booting the GTX 1080 / 1060 on their own (won't show windows installer) - I didn't realise I didn't need a GPU for unraid itself, motherboard POSTs fine. 

5) VFIO passthrough has been enabled and disabled for the following things I've tried - nothing works. 

 

Only thing I haven't tried is the powershell command and SDK which I'm just too confused with and I don't think it'll do me any good with my sanity! 

 

If anyone can help with this, I would be grateful! XML file attached.

 

 

 

 

XML.rtf

Edited September 25, 2022 by 45nice1

[Evedoescomputerstuff]

First. Do VMs work with no GPU and VNC selected? 

 

If they do, 

 

PCI ACS Override + Multifunction. 

 

ACS override is a GUI setting, multifunction can only be enabled for the VM by editing the XML. 

You may have to play with which ACS override setting to use and the multifunction setting in the XML.