Hey everyone,

With the recent announcement of the Intel Arc Pro B70, I'm still sitting here waiting for my B60 to work with Unraid.

I noticed that the latest stable release of Unraid (7.2.4) is currently running Kernel 6.12.54. From what I’ve gathered, full stable support for the Battlemage architecture—specifically the newer xe driver features and proper fan/temp reporting—seems to require Kernel 6.14 or 6.15+ and updated Mesa drivers.

A few questions for the gurus here:

• Does anyone know if the current 7.3 beta cycle is planned to bump the kernel to 6.14/6.15?

• Has anyone successfully tested a B60/B580 on the current 7.2.x builds using the experimental_xe flag, or is it still a "pass-through to VM only" situation?

• Are there any plans for an updated Intel-GPU-TOP plugin to support the new Battlemage IDs?

I’m really looking forward to finally using my B60, it's only been what 6 months?

Cheers!

7.3 will use kernel 6.18 and the last info I have is that the first beta is expected very soon, like a week or so if there aren't delays.

7 hours ago, JorgeB said:

7.3 will use kernel 6.18 and the last info I have is that the first beta is expected very soon, like a week or so if there aren't delays.

I will hold you to this comrade.

Version 7.3.0-beta.2 2026-04-01 | Unraid Docs

This beta adds dedicated boot pool support and fixes user-facing regressions reported against 7.3.0-beta.1, especially around Docker behavior, XFS sector-size compatibility, onboarding polish, and dev

7.3 beta is out. Does anyone know if the kernel update to kernel 6.18 now makes it work with Intel Battlemage? I'm waiting for this support before I purchase an Arc Pro b50. I didn't see it mention Intel GPU cards anywhere.

Multiple users confirmed it's working for them.

Now for the million dollar question: When is it going to get out of beta?

Selfishly, just bought it, would rather not put it in my main rig and make my 9070XT suffer for gaming

Edited April 17Apr 17 by skrumzy

1 hour ago, skrumzy said:

Now for the million dollar question: When is it going to get out of beta?

Selfishly, just bought it, would rather not put it in my main rig and make my 9070XT suffer for gaming

How would it make your main rig suffer during gaming?

I've considered buying it now. Using it with my 3080ti as a frame gen card with lossless scaling. Until it gets a stable release on unRAID then moving it.

Anyone running 7.3 with a B50/B60/B70 that can confirm if the SR-IOV VFs are functional so that VFs can be passed to individual VMs? If so, this is a joyous day indeed, as having Unraid support a single GPU that can properly handle multiple VMs and containers has been a feature I've waited for years to see materialize.

This was posted in Discord (They needed to update the GPU firmware for full support, IIRC)

B60 owner, out of the box installed Into unraid server. (No rebar, csm off, above 4g enabled)

Upgraded to 7.3.0 rc1, can see 24 VF options in system devices.

Have no since updated the Firmware/firmware-data and opromcode to 101.8517, and the number of VF's is now 7.
Followed this guide to do the update through unraid: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/remember-to-update-your-intel-arc-firmware-on-linux/208736

Edited May 1May 1 by isaw

B70 owner, I see 4 VF's, haven't tried it yet though as I mainly got this for AI.

I am the owner of an Intel i265K with an integrated Intel Arc iGPU, and unfortunately I cannot confirm that it works on my system.

In the system under “System Devices”, since the update to version 7.3.0, I see the following option:

SR-IOV Available VFs: 7 – Select number of VFs

Here I now have the new ability to select up to 7 VFs, which initially looks very promising.

However, when I try to apply the setting, I receive the following message:

Update Failed

Error: Failed to change VF configuration: Failed writing to /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:02.0/sriov_numvfs: file_put_contents(): Write of 1 bytes failed with errno=2 No such file or directory

A reboot does not change anything either.

7 minutes ago, beowulf123456 said:

I am the owner of an Intel i265K with an integrated Intel Arc iGPU, and unfortunately I cannot confirm that it works on my system.

In the system under “System Devices”, since the update to version 7.3.0, I see the following option:

SR-IOV Available VFs: 7 – Select number of VFs

Here I now have the new ability to select up to 7 VFs, which initially looks very promising.

However, when I try to apply the setting, I receive the following message:

Update Failed

Error: Failed to change VF configuration: Failed writing to /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:02.0/sriov_numvfs: file_put_contents(): Write of 1 bytes failed with errno=2 No such file or directory

A reboot does not change anything either.

igpu shows available VFs, but the native kernel driver does not support it. You need a modified i915 driver so you need to install the i915 SR-IOV Driver via CA.