Disk Full After Creating Windows 10 VM

[gadget069]

I have aloted 30gb to my vm. I plan on running Blue Iris on it eventually. But after installing Windows 10 Pro, I'm only getting 6gb free out of 30. What am I missing. Still new at unraid and vms. Thanks

 

Edited May 16, 2023 by gadget069

[JonathanM]

Windows update will fill that space rather quickly. If you can't give the VM more space, maybe try using one of the "Lite" windows installs with all the extra junk stripped out.

[whipdancer]

Completely normal. 30gig is way too small to be useful for windows.

[gadget069]

On 5/16/2023 at 5:21 PM, whipdancer said:

Completely normal. 30gig is way too small to be useful for windows.

My bad. I was sleep deprived and meant to make the drive 3tb. Thanks

[Kilrah]

Proper advice is to keep the OS vdisk small (40ish GB) and have the footage be stored on a network share that would be an unraid user share).

 

You can disable things like hibernation and pagefile (if you have enough RAM allocated to the VM) to reduce OS disk space usage.

Edited May 22, 2023 by Kilrah

[JonathanM]

6 hours ago, gadget069 said:

My bad. I was sleep deprived and meant to make the drive 3tb. Thanks

How large is the pool you have assigned for domains?

[gadget069]

Proper advice is to keep the OS vdisk small (40ish GB) and have the footage be stored on a network share that would be an unraid user share).
 
You can disable things like hibernation and pagefile (if you have enough RAM allocated to the VM) to reduce OS disk space usage.

I've allocated 16gb and the footage saved to a network share.

The problem I'm having just in testing is the CPU pegging 100% and freezing the VM. I've seen multiple threads with this issue. I'm starting to wondering if I'm asking to much from my CPU.

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[Kilrah]

Don't really know that app but it seems it's pretty CPU-heavy indeed unless you record without reencoding or have a GPU to give it to enable hardware encoding.

Edited June 3, 2023 by Kilrah

[gadget069]

Don't really know that app but it seems it's pretty CPU-heavy indeed unless you record without reencoding or have a GPU to give it to enable hardware encoding.

I'm not running Blue Iris yet. I wanted to do some testing with the 30 day trial before transferring my license over. Just running the VM stock it will lock up, have to force stop the VM. I'm trying to get the VM to be reliable first. Not sure if I mentioned, using 5600g for the processor.

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