I cannot see the VM IP in the Unraid GUI. I read in the documentation that I need to install the virtio drivers within the VM. I am not sure how to do this. I have downloaded and mapped the /mnt/cache/isos/virtio-win-0.1.221-1.iso. However, I don't see this as a disk within the Windows VM.

What am I doing wrong?

Post a screenshot from the VM form page.

Here we go.

And br0 / virtio-net.

That looks fine, make sure you reboot the VM, for Windows 10/11, just shutting down, powering back on is not enough to detect some hardware changes due to Windows fast boot mode, you need to actually reboot.

Yes, I had shut down the VM and even restarted Unraid. Unfortunately, doesn't show up as a drive in Windows 11. Do I understand it correctly that it should just automatically show up as "drive d:\" in the Windows 11 VM?

Yes... was the iso selectable from the field as a dropdown? usually should be using the /mnt/user path

Edited July 3, 20251 yr by Kilrah

And to clarify my earlier post. The VM is actually running and running well. There are two potential iussues:

1) The IP doesn't show in the Unraid GUI (see my first post)

2) The virtio disk doesn't show up inside the Windows VM

Just now, Kilrah said:

Yes... was the iso selectable from the field as a dropdown? usually should be using the /mnt/user path

Yes, it is selectable. It used to be a different file (which also didn't work). I then upgraded to the latest version. I checked whetehr it can be selected. But unfortunately, none of these tries led to the virtio "disk" showing in Windows Explorer.

I'd try putting the /mnt/user path manually...

Also 221 is old, but that shouldn't affect the "not even appearing"

Edited July 3, 20251 yr by Kilrah

I had tried both 221 and 271. And also both mapped to /mnt/cache and mapped to /mnt/user.

Below screenshot from my VM settings. Maybe something there?

One thing that always confused me is that this Unraid server has a /user and also a /user0 folder. And /addons, /remotes and /rootshare. I do believe that my other Unraid server has none of these?

Could this issue be related?

2 hours ago, steve1977 said:

I had shut down the VM and even restarted Unraid.

You need to restart the VM, not Unraid, just shutdown won't work.

We are speaking about the same "VM restart"? See screenshot below. I have done this. Both with "restart" as well as "stop /start". Any other ideas?

13 minutes ago, steve1977 said:

We are speaking about the same "VM restart"

Yes, that shoudl work

Unfortunately, not showing up in the Windows File Explorer. Any idea what to do to trouble-shoot? Thanks!

Not really, that's a basic functionality, never seen anyone with that issue, does it work if you create a new VM?

Just created a new VM with the same vdisk image. Unfortunately, still the same issue. So, it seems not a template issue, but rather a Windows issue? Mmh...

Ah... One idea... Maybe I didn't set it up when I originally set up the VM? If that's the case, is it possible to do so ex-post?

Attached a screenshot from disk management.

I can manually mount the iso file in Windows. Does it make sense to do this and then install? Afterwards, I should anyways remove the virtio image?

1 minute ago, steve1977 said:

Does it make sense to do this and then install?

That should work yes. Still weird the virtual drive wouldn't work...

4 hours ago, steve1977 said:

also a /user0 folder.

That's normal, user0 is "all array drives but without pools" where user includes pools.

4 hours ago, steve1977 said:

And /addons, /remotes and /rootshare

Those are added by the Unassigned Devices plugin.

Thanks. Let me try. I installed the qemu-ga-x86_64 file, but still see "Requires guest agent installed".

What worked is to install the quest tools. Is this needed?

Seem someone else has the same issue. See forum post below. I tried the same (change from ide to sata) and indeed worked. However, I now see two D: drives and cannot eject any of them.