September 28, 20232 yr Hi guys, I would need your help. I wanted to create a Win11 VM with passthrough GPU for testing purposes ( wanted to build Unraid + gaming VM later ). Since I yet do not have a graphics card I thought i'd pass Intel iGPU, so I've created a VM, choose to use CPU's GPU, BUT I FORGOT TO ADD AN ISO image of Win11. I've clicked create. Button became disabled with text creating... I've waited for like 30 minutes, nothing... Panicked. Refreshed main Unraid page... didnt work. I've accessed Unraid server via mobile app (ControllR) and i've said to my self let's restart it. I've restarted it via app... Nothing, server was unavaliable for like 15 minutes. Then I've connected monitor to the physical server and noticed that server goes into BIOS. Windows boot manager is set as default boot. This is all I get from it. Server is unavaliable via IP it seems it doesnt boot? to be honest I dont even know what i did wrong. Was it wrong that I selected iGPU to pass? Probably creating a VM without ISO is a mistake? why is this even allowed? Edit: this is what boot sequence looks like: Shouldn't here be Unraid's flash drive? Edited September 29, 20232 yr by Ziga
September 29, 20232 yr Author Anyone? I was thinking if it's possible to remove that VM in a way to put Unraid flash drive in another PC and remove it somehow.
September 29, 20232 yr Solution It amazes me how one can break stuff and be surprised all of the sudden. Turn off the server, plug the unraid usb into a pc and edit the config files so that the vm service(domain.cfg) doesnt start anymore and any other files you edited before. who know what those are. maybe the syslinux config, any modprobes, etc etc.
September 29, 20232 yr Author 5 minutes ago, Mainfrezzer said: It amazes me how one can break stuff and be surprised all of the sudden. Turn off the server, plug the unraid usb into a pc and edit the config files so that the vm service(domain.cfg) doesnt start anymore and any other files you edited before. who know what those are. maybe the syslinux config, any modprobes, etc etc. I understand that I made a mistake when I didnt include an ISO file... But I wasn't aware that this could potentialy cause whole system to freeze/corrupt. I didnt edit any (other) files... Just created a VM in a way, which is described in my 1st post. Will plug the USB in another PC and check config files and will come back for more help if needed. Thanks for your suggestion!
September 29, 20232 yr 15 minutes ago, Ziga said: I understand that I made a mistake when I didnt include an ISO file... But I wasn't aware that this could potentialy cause whole system to freeze/corrupt. I didnt edit any (other) files... Just created a VM in a way, which is described in my 1st post. Will plug the USB in another PC and check config files and will come back for more help if needed. Thanks for your suggestion! the issue isnt the iso image, really. The issue is that you passed your one and only gpu to a virtual machine. while doable, its a pain in the ass to troubleshoot the host system, in this case Unraid. Edited September 29, 20232 yr by Mainfrezzer
September 29, 20232 yr Author Thank you @Mainfrezzer! I disabled VM manager with the help of other PC, put flash drive back in the main machine and turned on. Server is back online! I've also started VM manager then and it seems that the VM which should be created is gone. I am really happy that server is back on
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