February 2, 20251 yr I have a problem after upgrading to v.7 of unraid. I had Win11 VM and a separate 4TB HDD passed through in the system. VM was able to see the 4TB HDD and use it. After the upgrade VM lost the config for the passed-through HDD. I manually added the HDD back to VM again and had to initialize the HDD in the VM itself under disk management. This never happened before when I was upgrading between versions. All I had to do was to point the VM to the HDD and then addthe HDD under disk management in the VM and that was it. This time I have to initialize the drive and format it. When I start formatting VM freezes (goes in to PAUSE state). Is there anything different in the v.7 for adding the pass-through HDD to a VM? I used to do it by selecting 2nd vDisk Location: under VM settings and then manually adding the disk /mnt/disks/sdf. Thanks.
February 2, 20251 yr Author Solution Hi All, after playing with settings for a bit it looks like it worked and now everything is back to normal. Not sure if I was making the mistake from the beginning and the below steps are irrelevant as I was rapidly making a lot of changes and at some point noticed the VM was showing 'guest services are not installed' message. But still here are the steps: downloaded latest drivers VirtIo.iso added the iso to the VM to make it appear as the CD/DVD drive in windows VM started the VM(Win11) with only one drive which is the image in cache inside VM navigated to the CD/DVD and installed guest-services made sure they run in 'automatic' in Windows services inside the VM restarted VM 'guest services are not installed' message stays for a short while and then disappears force-stopped VM and added the 2nd Vdisk location - manual>/sdf(in my case the pass through HDD is sdf) type - SATA started the VM inside VM went to windows>tools>storage management and initialized the drive and then formatted it. This time it allowed me to do everything without freezing the VM. Not sure which one of the steps fixed my issue, but tend to think its the setting for 2nd vdisk location which needs to be simply /sdf Hope it helps someone. Cheers!
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