I built a windows 11 VM roughly following SpaceImvaderOne's older video here 

 

I already had an evaluation version and the virtio drivers have moved on a long way since this was made, but I followed it as closely as I could

 

When Idle, my system looked like this:

 

but as soon as I started the windows 11 VM I got Core 0 hitting 100%, memory at 91% and Unraid stopped responding completely

 

At this point I lost the ability to do much, I attempted to power off the VM and it was just stuck with the waiting circle and my browser would not respond. Now the browser ended the session with a timeout error and will no longer connect, I can't connect using SSH and a local keyboard and monitor session fails to login due to a timeout

 

ping still responds.

 

How to I stop this without breaking my array?

Can you ssh into the system?

 

You can kill the qemu process if you can get access.

No I couldn't do anything, but having left it for a few hours it has stopped the windows VM and I have control of the system again.

 

I don't understand why a Windows VM would cause Unraid to become completely unresponsive but it has happened twice now and I don't know how to troubleshoot this, once I start the vm I cant do anything so how do I get logs, screenshots anything that might be of use? 

Edited July 14, 20241 yr by sailingbikeruk

1 minute ago, sailingbikeruk said:

No I couldn't do anything, but having left it for a few hours it has stopped the windows VM and I have control of the system again.

 

I don't understand why a Windows VM would cause Unraid to become completely unresponsive but it has happened twice now and I don't know how to troubleshoot this, once I start the vm I cant do anything so how do I get logs, screenshots anything that might be of use? 

run diagnostics from tools and post here