I need to further investigate this as it happened last night at about 11pm (tonights task is to completely wipe and start again!)

 

I had two virtual machines setup, one with my AMD card and one with my Nvidia all working in windows with USB shared to each and i was really happy that i had finally got it all up and running.

I then downed both VM's to add in a second Data drive to each one, thats where the problems started!

 

For whatever reason after saving the settings both VM's vanished from the list of available systems, then i got error meessages across the top of the web gui. I restarted the whole box and then the pen drive went corrupt and said contact support. ( i took it out and ran a disk repair on my laptop)

 

I setup everything from scratch using a different USB pen drive (kingston) as the one i was using initially was a free one so not that good quality, setup everything again from scratch and added the disks at the point of VM creation and the same thing happens.

 

Has anyone seen this before or had something similar? I know i need to get screen grabs of the error messages, will do that tonight!

so I have now deleted all my virtual drives and the web Gui now says this, my flash drive is fine if I put in another pc there is nothing wrong with it! Any suggestions??

 

On the flash drive screen

Syslinux Configuration

Warning: file_get_contents(/boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/dynamix/include/DefaultPageLayout.php(276) : eval()'d code on line 21 

Syslinux configuration:

 

When browsing the vm screen

 

Warning: file_put_contents(/boot/config/domain.cfg): failed to open stream: Input/output error in /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/dynamix.vm.manager/classes/libvirt_helpers.php on line 28 Warning: parse_ini_file(/boot/config/domain.cfg): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/dynamix.vm.manager/classes/libvirt_helpers.php on line 34

 

 

Kind of confusing to me with what you have written. Are you trying to run unRAID as a VM, or trying to run VMs in unRAID?

running vm's in Unraid.

 

The thing is it was working perfectly until I tried to add in a 'Data' drive to each VM to put software installs on... it then started throwing up these errors and playing up

 

so now I look at my screen and it says "Flash GUID:Error - Contact Support" It only started doing this after I added more disks into the already built Virtual machines.

 

If I format and start from scratch it will work fine again until I add in more disks. The disks I am adding have been running fine in my computer for ages

Another thing that isn't clear to me. Are you trying to give the USB drive that unRAID boots from to the VMs, or are you talking about accessing a different USB drive from the VMs?

interesting I just left a fresh install running with a vm booted up to the select language options (right at the install start whilst I had my dinner, and came back to this

Warning: file_put_contents(/boot/config/domain.cfg): failed to open stream: Input/output error in /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/dynamix.vm.manager/classes/libvirt_helpers.php on line 28 Warning: parse_ini_file(/boot/config/domain.cfg): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/dynamix.vm.manager/classes/libvirt_helpers.php on line 34

 

across the top of the screen. I haven't even started the install of the os yet this time.....

 

Why would I try and pass the usb controller that UnRAID boots from to a Virtual machine? that would break it!! I do know how to work out which the correct controllers are and pass them in the XML file!

 

Edit

I am now wondering if my motherboard might be shot, two of the usb ports suddenly no longer seem to work at all, any usb pen drive I use for UNraid gets really hot, really quickly, maybe that's whats killing it?

The error message indicates that the GUI isn't able to read a file from the USB drive, your suspicion may be right or the USB drive itself got corrupted. In the latter case you may want to do a disk check/repair on a windows machine.

 

Yeah I have done that and fixed it, however I am struggling to work out what is causing the corruption. My theory this time is that it is because I have it plugged into a USB3 port, I have now moved to a USB2 port and put my keyboard into the USB 3 one.. fingers crossed!

 

It just means my pen drive sits out at the front of my case now, might have to invest in one of those really small ones!