June 27Jun 27 In my Windows 11 VM running under Unraid 7.2.2, it is difficult or impossible to safely remove USB drives that are mounted in the VM. One of the host system's USB3 controllers (ASMedia) is passed through to the VM. It is a physical USB3 controller on a PCIe card. Devices that are directly and locally used by the Windows VM are connected there. In the Windows VM, the device Manager tree looks like this: The problem is the "Safely Remove Device" dialog in the tray looks like this: If I remove the ASMedia USB3.1 controller, it also removes devices unrelated to the USB hard drives and used by applications, and would affect system operation. The USB Mass Storage Device that holds the drives is a Sabrent 4-bay drive docking controller Attempting to disable this device in Device Manager results in a prompt to reboot. Has anyone found a clean way to shut down drives for replacement without shutting down the VM?
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