I'd love to see an option to pass a share through to a Windows guest VM when creating virtual machines. This can currently only be done for linux guests, but not windows.

 

Of course you could just access the share over the network when within Windows, but this poses a few problems. One that comes to mind in my case is I install Steam games to an unraid share, and have a windows VM autoboot into big picture mode so I can play those games. I have mapped the share to a drive and told it to connect at startup automatically. Windows, being windows, sometimes attempts to map the share before a network connection is available, which means Steam no longer has access to the game library.

 

To fix this, I'd have to access the share manually (which is hard with only a controller attached) or set up some script to continuously check or delay the mapping of shares at boot (which is tedious and feels quite hacky). Would be great is unraid had the ability to just pass the share through, or some other mechanism to ensure share mapping occurs after a network connection is detected.

Did you try mapping the share as a network drive?

 

Check this out

 

I'd love to see an option to pass a share through to a Windows guest VM when creating virtual machines. This can currently only be done for linux guests, but not windows.

 

Of course you could just access the share over the network when within Windows, but this poses a few problems. One that comes to mind in my case is I install Steam games to an unraid share, and have a windows VM autoboot into big picture mode so I can play those games. I have mapped the share to a drive and told it to connect at startup automatically. Windows, being windows, sometimes attempts to map the share before a network connection is available, which means Steam no longer has access to the game library.

 

To fix this, I'd have to access the share manually (which is hard with only a controller attached) or set up some script to continuously check or delay the mapping of shares at boot (which is tedious and feels quite hacky). Would be great is unraid had the ability to just pass the share through, or some other mechanism to ensure share mapping occurs after a network connection is detected.

 

AFAIK mapping of shares in KVM through the Unraid webui can only be done on Linux guests...

 

I think I'd look at the same solutions that you've got in mind and delay mounting of the shares from within the guest.  Something like this.