June 14, 20251 yr Hey guys,I got a little problem I could not find any information for.I got a VM with a rather large virtual disk stored on one of my HDDs. The VM is powered off most of the time, however the physikal disk won't spin down. Having a look into the FileActivity plugin, I can see following every few minutes:** domains ** Jun 14 12:29:14 OPEN => /mnt/disk2/domains/InternetInABox/vdisk1.img Jun 14 12:29:14 OPEN => /mnt/disk2/domains/InternetInABox/vdisk1.img Jun 14 12:29:14 OPEN => /mnt/disk2/domains/InternetInABox/vdisk1.img Jun 14 12:39:58 OPEN => /mnt/disk2/domains/InternetInABox/vdisk1.img Jun 14 12:39:58 OPEN => /mnt/disk2/domains/InternetInABox/vdisk1.img Jun 14 12:39:58 OPEN => /mnt/disk2/domains/InternetInABox/vdisk1.img Jun 14 12:39:58 OPEN => /mnt/disk2/domains/InternetInABox/vdisk1.img Jun 14 12:39:58 OPEN => /mnt/disk2/domains/InternetInABox/vdisk1.img Jun 14 12:39:58 OPEN => /mnt/disk2/domains/InternetInABox/vdisk1.img Jun 14 12:39:58 OPEN => /mnt/disk2/domains/InternetInABox/vdisk1.img Jun 14 12:40:02 OPEN => /mnt/disk2/domains/InternetInABox/vdisk1.img Jun 14 12:40:03 OPEN => /mnt/disk2/domains/InternetInABox/vdisk1.img Jun 14 12:40:03 OPEN => /mnt/disk2/domains/InternetInABox/vdisk1.img Jun 14 12:40:03 OPEN => /mnt/disk2/domains/InternetInABox/vdisk1.img Jun 14 12:40:43 OPEN => /mnt/disk2/domains/InternetInABox/vdisk1.img Jun 14 12:40:43 OPEN => /mnt/disk2/domains/InternetInABox/vdisk1.img Jun 14 12:40:43 OPEN => /mnt/disk2/domains/InternetInABox/vdisk1.img Jun 14 12:40:43 OPEN => /mnt/disk2/domains/InternetInABox/vdisk1.img Jun 14 12:40:43 OPEN => /mnt/disk2/domains/InternetInABox/vdisk1.img Jun 14 12:40:43 OPEN => /mnt/disk2/domains/InternetInABox/vdisk1.img Jun 14 12:40:43 OPEN => /mnt/disk2/domains/InternetInABox/vdisk1.imgIs this expected behavior or a bug? Any tips on how not to open the vdisk, when the VM is shut down?Thanks and have a great weekend :)
June 14, 20251 yr Community Expert Are you or your browser refreshing the dashboard or VM pages? Edited June 14, 20251 yr by Kilrah
June 14, 20251 yr Author Mostly not. But whenever I notice the HDD to be running I notice it through the dashboard or VM page, off course. I'll try disabling the VM page on the dashboard and report back if that helps.
June 14, 20251 yr Author That didn't work. I didn't use the VMs page and disabled the VM tile on the dashboard. Nevertheless I can see new "open" entries in the FileActivity plugin, even with timestamps I did not have the Unraid GUI loaded at.
June 14, 20251 yr Author That's 7.1.3.I just noticed, the disk spun down for almost an hour. I just had the FileActivity tab open in the background. It started spinning up again as soon as I opened another UI tab. So it seems it is indeed a problem with the GUI or dashboard.
June 14, 20251 yr Community Expert I also once moved a VM vdisk to a spinner and yes since then every time i loaded the dashboard or VM page it would enumerate or such and spin it up.Interestingly I changed that and there's no more vdisk there but it still spins up, i should investigate that once. Wonder if there's some remnant of a reference in libvirt.EDIT: Maybe the isos share It's on that drive too here? Edited June 14, 20251 yr by Kilrah
June 14, 20251 yr Community Expert 15 minutes ago, Krogator74 said:That's 7.1.3.I just noticed, the disk spun down for almost an hour. I just had the FileActivity tab open in the background. It started spinning up again as soon as I opened another UI tab. So it seems it is indeed a problem with the GUI or dashboard.There was a bug pre 7 that would get the size of a disk which would spin up drives but that was fixed. Maybe something else has changed will look into it. To confirm it happens on either the Dash or VM tab? I am not sure why the file is being open thou.
June 14, 20251 yr Author I just checked again. I've been playing around in the Docker an Apps tabs for ~30 minutes without activity in FileActivity. Opened the Dashboard and immediately got activity. VM tile is still disabled. Same goes for the VM tab.Thanks for looking into it :)
June 14, 20251 yr Community Expert 7 hours ago, Krogator74 said:I just checked again. I've been playing around in the Docker an Apps tabs for ~30 minutes without activity in FileActivity. Opened the Dashboard and immediately got activity. VM tile is still disabled. Same goes for the VM tab.Thanks for looking into it :)Fix was only for isos files will look into doing for vidsks.
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