I just picked up an Nvidia 5070TI to pass through to a Windows 11 VM and can’t for the life of me get it to work.

Even just getting the card to be properly see in Unraid seems to be an issue with just the Nvidia driver and GPU stats. I can’t run Nvidia-smi and get a result.

I would love any help if anyone has any ideas.

We need more information than this, most cards including the 50 series can be passthrough now.

Are you saying that Unraid does not detect your 5090 series?

When I have the card connected and use the gpu stats/Nvidia driver plugin and the card won’t be fully seen in Unraid on the dashboard and I am unable to run Nvidia-smi.

I can select it all and try to pass it through to the VM and it’s seen in the VM but I always get an error 43.

Try adding these in your XML if it works:

  <features>
    <kvm>
      <hidden state='on'/>
    </kvm>
    <vmport state='off'/>
    <ioapic driver='kvm'/>
  </features>

Did you get this working? I had some issues with getting my RTX 5070 to pass through to my Windows 11 VM and actually display on the output. Now that it actually works, it works quite well but it took some added XML lines for it to work (assuming it is bound correctly for passthrough).

On 10/29/2025 at 12:47 AM, thewolf56 said:

Did you get this working? I had some issues with getting my RTX 5070 to pass through to my Windows 11 VM and actually display on the output. Now that it actually works, it works quite well but it took some added XML lines for it to work (assuming it is bound correctly for passthrough).

Hello,

is your GPU working fine also under Unraid (Docker Containers) and also as VM Passthrough? Could you please write me which lines you had to add to VM .xml file? I am thinking also about buying 5070 or 5070 Ti but I read that users experience issues in comparison to previous GPU generations.

... Gave to some data already to assist nvdia and GPU pass.

Add this to the end of the xml to stop the pci USB ejection of pcie devices passed. Fix windows kvm to hiden but on. Sets and fixed the Nvidia code 43

    <qemu:commandline>
    <qemu:arg value='-cpu'/>
    <qemu:arg value='host,hidden=1,+pcid,+pdpe1gb,+aes,+kvm_pv_unhalt,+kvm_pv_eoi,hv_vendor_id=NV43FIX,kvm=off'/>

    <qemu:arg value='-device'/>
    <qemu:arg value='amd-iommu'/>

    <qemu:arg value='-global'/>
    <qemu:arg value='pcie-root-port.hotplug=off'/>
  </qemu:commandline>

Qemu extra is needed before you install windows...