hbr245b Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 I boot from plop and was seeing the errors until I attached a second (blank) USB stick to my unraid VM. Note: I am not passing through a USB controller, only assigning USB devices to the VM. After getting a UPS and configuring a VM for it (with USB cable connected) I was able to remove the second USB from my unraid VM and the errors have not returned. Poor choice of words on my part; a USB controller was added to the vm and then the 2 USB flash drives were attached. Quote Link to comment
BrianAz Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 I boot from plop and was seeing the errors until I attached a second (blank) USB stick to my unraid VM. Note: I am not passing through a USB controller, only assigning USB devices to the VM. After getting a UPS and configuring a VM for it (with USB cable connected) I was able to remove the second USB from my unraid VM and the errors have not returned. Poor choice of words on my part; a USB controller was added to the vm and then the 2 USB flash drives were attached. Weird. Not sure what might be different then. Quote Link to comment
uldise Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 I boot from plop and was seeing the errors until I attached a second (blank) USB stick to my unraid VM. Note: I am not passing through a USB controller, only assigning USB devices to the VM. After getting a UPS and configuring a VM for it (with USB cable connected) I was able to remove the second USB from my unraid VM and the errors have not returned. Poor choice of words on my part; a USB controller was added to the vm and then the 2 USB flash drives were attached. have you tried to mount this stick with unassigned devices? when i tested this with USB UPS, UPS daemon was loaded first to stop error messages.. Quote Link to comment
hbr245b Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 I boot from plop and was seeing the errors until I attached a second (blank) USB stick to my unraid VM. Note: I am not passing through a USB controller, only assigning USB devices to the VM. After getting a UPS and configuring a VM for it (with USB cable connected) I was able to remove the second USB from my unraid VM and the errors have not returned. Poor choice of words on my part; a USB controller was added to the vm and then the 2 USB flash drives were attached. have you tried to mount this stick with unassigned devices? when i tested this with USB UPS, UPS daemon was loaded first to stop error messages.. I've tried with the extra USB device both mounted & umounted. The errors continue in the log file. I currently have it attached and mounted in a separate vm (to test the scenario above with a UPS attached vaia USB to a separate vm). Errors continue in the log file. Quote Link to comment
uldise Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 I've tried with the extra USB device both mounted & umounted. The errors continue in the log file. I currently have it attached and mounted in a separate vm (to test the scenario above with a UPS attached vaia USB to a separate vm). Errors continue in the log file. not sure i'm understand you correctly, but one of tests it worked for me was add UPS USB device and setup apcupsd in unRAID.. - then you have two USB devices - unRAID USB key and UPS USB. can you try different USB ports? and please post some info about your hardware, at least mobo.. one more thing to give it a try - boot from VMDK. Quote Link to comment
WeeboTech Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 one more thing to give it a try - boot from VMDK. I boot from .vmdk. It makes no difference if using plop or .vmdk. Quote Link to comment
hbr245b Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Fixed my error! VM -> Edit Settings -> Options -> Guest Operating System I had this originally set to "CentOS 4/5/6/7 (64 bit)" [force of habit - we have many vms of this type at work] Shutdown vm, modified to "Ubuntu Linux (64 bit)", booted and the errors disappeared. This is booting via plop, first USB device attached is the unraid USB flash drive, second USB device is blank (& unmounted). Quote Link to comment
BrianAz Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Fixed my error! VM -> Edit Settings -> Options -> Guest Operating System I had this originally set to "CentOS 4/5/6/7 (64 bit)" [force of habit - we have many vms of this type at work] Shutdown vm, modified to "Ubuntu Linux (64 bit)", booted and the errors disappeared. This is booting via plop, first USB device attached is the unraid USB flash drive, second USB device is blank (& unmounted). Congrats. For anyone else who might come across this, the guide I followed had me set my OS to FreeBSD 32-bit (dual-usb fix works just fine) so you have that option too. Quote Link to comment
Ice_Black Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 My unRAID USB died today :( I think it is because of this reset high-speed issue? I been running ESXi 6.1.3 for while on ESXi Quote Link to comment
WeeboTech Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 What model and size did you have? How old was it? I can tell that my USB is constantly being accessed, however I have no proof that it's being written to. Quote Link to comment
Ice_Black Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 What model and size did you have? How old was it? I can tell that my USB is constantly being accessed, however I have no proof that it's being written to. I have been running unRAID since 25th July 2011 on a same USB (Kingston DataTraveler G3) Size: 8GB Quote Link to comment
HiSoC8Y Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 After I went through the hassle of upgrading, on the first boot which was successful, I noticed the slowness, and I came to know that it's not supported with unRAID as a virtual machine, the topic of this thread. This is really disappointing from the unRAID team, how can they not support this out of the box in the first release? having unRAID as a VM is very common nowadays. I had to rollback, deleted all the content of the USB (v6.1.3 content) and copied back my 5.0.5 content and brought my unRAID back up for the time being. Quote Link to comment
smdion Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 After I went through the hassle of upgrading, on the first boot which was successful, I noticed the slowness, and I came to know that it's not supported with unRAID as a virtual machine, the topic of this thread. This is really disappointing from the unRAID team, how can they not support this out of the box in the first release? having unRAID as a VM is very common nowadays. I had to rollback, deleted all the content of the USB (v6.1.3 content) and copied back my 5.0.5 content and brought my unRAID back up for the time being. LimeTech has stated they only support unRAID running directly on the hardware. Quote Link to comment
sureguy Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 After I went through the hassle of upgrading, on the first boot which was successful, I noticed the slowness, and I came to know that it's not supported with unRAID as a virtual machine, the topic of this thread. This is really disappointing from the unRAID team, how can they not support this out of the box in the first release? having unRAID as a VM is very common nowadays. I had to rollback, deleted all the content of the USB (v6.1.3 content) and copied back my 5.0.5 content and brought my unRAID back up for the time being. LimeTech has stated they only support unRAID running directly on the hardware. People have posted work arounds for the issue on this thread. I recommend trying one of those. Quote Link to comment
HiSoC8Y Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 I tried some of the workarounds mentioned, none of them worked. Can someone list all the workarounds? Quote Link to comment
uldise Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 I tried some of the workarounds mentioned, none of them worked. Can someone list all the workarounds? please describe, what you tried ? and give us some info about your setup.. Quote Link to comment
HiSoC8Y Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 I tried some of the workarounds mentioned, none of them worked. Can someone list all the workarounds? please describe, what you tried ? and give us some info about your setup.. Ok, I tried the workaround mentioned (using two USBs) with plop, no go. About the other recommendation of passing thru the USB controller, I can't do that, because i'm using a USB as my ESXi OS. I was having a difficulty distinguishing between all the listed controllers in the ESXi passthru list. Therefore, I didn't try it, didn't want to risk it. Quote Link to comment
burr Posted November 15, 2015 Share Posted November 15, 2015 Make sure your guest is set to Ubuntu, other wise the 2 usb drive trick won't work. Quote Link to comment
bit2bytes4fun Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 VMware released an update to 5.5 on 12/8. Has anyone tested these updates for the issue? ESXi-5.5.0-20151204001-standard (Build 3248547) Quote Link to comment
IamSpartacus Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 Is this still an issue in the newest official release (6.1.9)? I haven't used UnRAID in a VM since September but will be switching back to that setup shortly. Quote Link to comment
nia Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 For me, the issue disappeared - I think with 6.1.7 - maybe earlier . I can at least confirm that 6.1.7 does not have the issue here. Quote Link to comment
IamSpartacus Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 For me, the issue disappeared - I think with 6.1.7 - maybe earlier . I can at least confirm that 6.1.7 does not have the issue here. Thanks @nia for that info. Quote Link to comment
ninthwalker Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 I can also confirm that this has gone away. I used to do the usb controller passthrough fix, but upgraded my MoBo and went back to normal usb passtrhough. On 6.1.6 I had the error occur. I then upgraded to 6.1.9 and the error went away. - NinthWalker Quote Link to comment
HiSoC8Y Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 I can also confirm that this has gone away. I used to do the usb controller passthrough fix, but upgraded my MoBo and went back to normal usb passtrhough. On 6.1.6 I had the error occur. I then upgraded to 6.1.9 and the error went away. - NinthWalker Ok, just to confirm, unRAID as VM is supported with 6.1.9, without any workarounds. Correct? Quote Link to comment
BobPhoenix Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 I have unRAID 6.1.9 running on an ESXi 5.0 currently. Quote Link to comment
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