July 20, 201510 yr Hello everyone! This is my first post and I'm not the most tech savvy person so I apologize if I left something out here. Recently, a friend of mine helped me build a personal server that uses unRAID 6.0 as its prime OS. We built it with the intention that it would do two jobs…one, run movies, music and etc as a multimedia server and two…run VMs so I could play games that are Windows based. I'm happy to say that it performs great as a multimedia server but I'm struggling to get the VMs to operate. I have two issues with VM operations: First, my only VM thus far is Windows 7 Home Premium. When this VM was originally set up, for what ever reason, it was only given on hard drive with 60 GBs of space. I have already burned through that and now need more…not surprisingly. So, I went into the VM manager on the Web GUI and changed the hard drive allotment for this VM from 60 GBs to 1,000 GBs and that is what it now shows in the Web GUI. Note, This hard drive allotment is coming from my Cache drive which has over 2 TBs free so it should support this assignment. Despite this, when I run this VM, in Windows it still shows that it only has 60 GBs of hard drive space. Have any of you had this issue? Secondly, in order to run my games I need to somehow pass through my DVD drive on my server to the Windows VM. Has anyone done this? Thanks for all of your help! --------------------------- Info on my server: Model: N/A M/B: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. - M5A97 R2.0 CPU: AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core @ 3500 HVM: Enabled IOMMU: Enabled Cache: 384 kB, 8192 kB, 8192 kB Memory: 16384 MB (max. installable capacity 32 GB) Network: eth0: 1000Mb/s - Full Duplex Kernel: Linux 4.0.4-unRAID x86_64 OpenSSL: 1.0.1m Server Log: Jul 19 18:42:28 FrankenServer dhcpcd[1366]: eth0: ARP announcing 10.0.1.2 (1 of 2), next in 2.0 seconds Jul 19 18:42:30 FrankenServer dhcpcd[1366]: eth0: ARP announcing 10.0.1.2 (2 of 2) Jul 19 18:44:06 FrankenServer kernel: kvm: already loaded the other module Jul 19 18:49:00 FrankenServer kernel: kvm: already loaded the other module Jul 19 19:08:55 FrankenServer kernel: device vnet0 entered promiscuous mode Jul 19 19:08:55 FrankenServer kernel: virbr0: port 2(vnet0) entered listening state Jul 19 19:08:55 FrankenServer kernel: virbr0: port 2(vnet0) entered listening state Jul 19 19:08:57 FrankenServer kernel: virbr0: port 2(vnet0) entered learning state Jul 19 19:08:59 FrankenServer kernel: virbr0: topology change detected, propagating Jul 19 19:08:59 FrankenServer kernel: virbr0: port 2(vnet0) entered forwarding state Jul 19 19:08:59 FrankenServer kernel: vfio_ecap_init: 0000:01:00.0 hiding ecap 0x19@0x270 Jul 19 19:08:59 FrankenServer kernel: vfio_ecap_init: 0000:01:00.0 hiding ecap 0x1b@0x2d0 Jul 19 19:08:59 FrankenServer kernel: vfio-pci 0000:00:14.2: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) Jul 19 19:09:03 FrankenServer kernel: usb 11-1: reset full-speed USB device number 2 using ohci-pci Jul 19 19:09:03 FrankenServer kernel: usb 11-1: reset full-speed USB device number 2 using ohci-pci Jul 19 19:09:05 FrankenServer kernel: kvm: zapping shadow pages for mmio generation wraparound Jul 19 19:09:53 FrankenServer kernel: usb 11-1: reset full-speed USB device number 2 using ohci-pci Jul 19 19:09:53 FrankenServer kernel: usb 11-1: reset full-speed USB device number 2 using ohci-pci Jul 19 19:10:12 FrankenServer kernel: usb 11-1: reset full-speed USB device number 2 using ohci-pci Jul 19 19:10:12 FrankenServer kernel: usb 11-1: reset full-speed USB device number 2 using ohci-pci Jul 19 19:15:01 FrankenServer dnsmasq-dhcp[29172]: DHCPDISCOVER(virbr0) 52:54:00:3b:7e:01 Jul 19 19:15:01 FrankenServer dnsmasq-dhcp[29172]: DHCPOFFER(virbr0) 192.168.122.211 52:54:00:3b:7e:01 Jul 19 19:15:03 FrankenServer dnsmasq-dhcp[29172]: DHCPDISCOVER(virbr0) 52:54:00:3b:7e:01 Jul 19 19:15:03 FrankenServer dnsmasq-dhcp[29172]: DHCPOFFER(virbr0) 192.168.122.211 52:54:00:3b:7e:01 Jul 19 19:15:12 FrankenServer dnsmasq-dhcp[29172]: DHCPDISCOVER(virbr0) 52:54:00:3b:7e:01 Jul 19 19:15:12 FrankenServer dnsmasq-dhcp[29172]: DHCPOFFER(virbr0) 192.168.122.211 52:54:00:3b:7e:01 Jul 19 19:15:32 FrankenServer dnsmasq-dhcp[29172]: DHCPDISCOVER(virbr0) 52:54:00:3b:7e:01 Jul 19 19:15:32 FrankenServer dnsmasq-dhcp[29172]: DHCPOFFER(virbr0) 192.168.122.211 52:54:00:3b:7e:01 Jul 19 19:16:03 FrankenServer dnsmasq-dhcp[29172]: DHCPDISCOVER(virbr0) 52:54:00:3b:7e:01 Jul 19 19:16:03 FrankenServer dnsmasq-dhcp[29172]: DHCPOFFER(virbr0) 192.168.122.211 52:54:00:3b:7e:01 Jul 19 19:16:03 FrankenServer dnsmasq-dhcp[29172]: DHCPREQUEST(virbr0) 192.168.122.211 52:54:00:3b:7e:01 Jul 19 19:16:03 FrankenServer dnsmasq-dhcp[29172]: DHCPACK(virbr0) 192.168.122.211 52:54:00:3b:7e:01 Win7 Jul 19 19:16:28 FrankenServer dnsmasq-dhcp[29172]: DHCPINFORM(virbr0) 192.168.122.211 52:54:00:3b:7e:01 Jul 19 19:16:28 FrankenServer dnsmasq-dhcp[29172]: DHCPACK(virbr0) 192.168.122.211 52:54:00:3b:7e:01 Win7 Jul 19 19:25:03 FrankenServer emhttp: /usr/bin/tail -n 42 -f '/var/log/libvirt/qemu/Windows 7.log' 2>&1 Jul 19 19:25:18 FrankenServer kernel: kvm: already loaded the other module Jul 19 19:27:48 FrankenServer emhttp: /usr/bin/tail -n 42 -f '/var/log/libvirt/qemu/Windows 7.log' 2>&1 Jul 19 19:27:56 FrankenServer emhttp: /usr/bin/tail -n 42 -f /var/log/syslog 2>&1 Jul 19 19:28:07 FrankenServer emhttp: /usr/bin/tail -n 42 -f '/var/log/libvirt/qemu/Windows 7.log' 2>&1 Jul 19 19:28:43 FrankenServer dnsmasq-dhcp[29172]: DHCPINFORM(virbr0) 192.168.122.211 52:54:00:3b:7e:01 Jul 19 19:28:43 FrankenServer dnsmasq-dhcp[29172]: DHCPACK(virbr0) 192.168.122.211 52:54:00:3b:7e:01 Win7 Jul 19 19:29:27 FrankenServer emhttp: /usr/bin/tail -n 42 -f /var/log/syslog 2>&1 ---------------------------------- Last VM Log: 2015-07-19 22:01:00.962+0000: starting up libvirt version: 1.2.15, qemu version: 2.3.0 Domain id=2 is tainted: high-privileges Domain id=2 is tainted: custom-argv Domain id=2 is tainted: host-cpu char device redirected to /dev/pts/0 (label charserial0) qemu: terminating on signal 15 from pid 29037 2015-07-19 23:07:25.877+0000: shutting down 2015-07-20 01:08:55.754+0000: starting up libvirt version: 1.2.15, qemu version: 2.3.0 Domain id=3 is tainted: high-privileges Domain id=3 is tainted: custom-argv Domain id=3 is tainted: host-cpu char device redirected to /dev/pts/0 (label charserial0)
July 20, 201510 yr As far as your DVD getting passed through - this worked for me: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=35504.msg331448#msg331448
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