vm lockup

[jimig1]

I have been having a problem with my Windows 10 vm locking up when running a video in chrome and I have not been able to figure out what the cause is. Any one have a good place to start troubleshooting?

[jimig1]

So I have watched the task mgr in windows and it looks like the disk usage is spiking to 100% around the time of the lock up.

[jimig1]

I have been doing so more testing. I ran chrome playing a video through RDP and it has not frozen it looks like it could be a GPU problem.

[Scrapz]

I have this same issue, which I've posted about, but there doesn't seem to be any response/fix for it.

[jimig1]

Scrapz I looked through you post. Is the whole system locking up? I only have problems with the VM dying. I want to get a new GPU any ways so I'm trying to find one that some one has used with success.

[Scrapz]

Full system lockup, requiring a hard reset. Sorry, I misread your post.

 

With that said, I had similar issues a while ago (not VM) with a Radeon R9 280X where it would crash if I played anything with hardware accelerated video. A Google search for "radeon crash hardware acceleration" shows this is not uncommon - it was the first and last time I bought an AMD GPU.

 

I fixed it by disabling hardware acceleration in anything I could find. Flash videos/objects have this option when you right-click on the video and go into options. In Chrome, there's a good chance it's using HTML5 for video playback, so you'll have to dip into the options.

 

You don't mention what you're using in your sig, so I'm just making an assumption here. Might be worth a go anyway.

[jimig1]

The GPU is the GTX 550. I'm looking at getting a GTX 970.

[jimig1]

So i just enables the MSI for Interrupts Just for a test and so far so good. I have done everything that has caused it to lock up and it has not. I'm not using HDMI audio but I figured that it couldn't hurt to enable it.

[jonp]

I would expect if you shut down your VM and try to start it again that GPU pass through won't work.  It's a known issue with the GTX 550 cards.

[jimig1]

jonp that is true i have to shut down the whole system to get the VM to start again. The lockup play video is something that just started happening and not sure why. I do plan on a new GPU soon any input if a EVGA GTX 970 is a ok card?

[jimig1]

Well I ran a video in chrome for about 3 hours and it locked again :'(

[comfox]

jonp that is true i have to shut down the whole system to get the VM to start again. The lockup play video is something that just started happening and not sure why. I do plan on a new GPU soon any input if a EVGA GTX 970 is a ok card?

 

I have an ASUS GeForce GTX 970 Turbo which I am passing through to a Window 10 VM.  I have had a tough go with getting the VM to be stable however I think I appear to have a working, stable VM now.

 

Goober07 pointed out to me that you have to pass through BOTH the GPU and the Audio portion for this to be stable.  If you don't pass through both you will have some serious stability issues.

[jimig1]

comfox good to know i have passed the audio from the GTX 550 to see if that help at all.

[jimig1]

I don't want to jinx it but with the audio pass thought for the card seems to have fixed the problem.

[CHBMB]

jonp that is true i have to shut down the whole system to get the VM to start again. The lockup play video is something that just started happening and not sure why. I do plan on a new GPU soon any input if a EVGA GTX 970 is a ok card?

 

I have an ASUS GeForce GTX 970 Turbo which I am passing through to a Window 10 VM.  I have had a tough go with getting the VM to be stable however I think I appear to have a working, stable VM now.

 

Goober07 pointed out to me that you have to pass through BOTH the GPU and the Audio portion for this to be stable.  If you don't pass through both you will have some serious stability issues.

 

It's so obvious when it's pointed out, and I've always, without thinking, included both in my VMs but I suppose if it doesn't occur to you then it probably needs to be documented better, especially as there seem to be several people who have fallen foul of this now..

[saarg]

It might be better if Limetech treated the GPU as one device passing through both video and sound. That way there will not be so many unhappy virtualizers 

[jimig1]

jonp that is true i have to shut down the whole system to get the VM to start again. The lockup play video is something that just started happening and not sure why. I do plan on a new GPU soon any input if a EVGA GTX 970 is a ok card?

 

I have an ASUS GeForce GTX 970 Turbo which I am passing through to a Window 10 VM.  I have had a tough go with getting the VM to be stable however I think I appear to have a working, stable VM now.

 

Goober07 pointed out to me that you have to pass through BOTH the GPU and the Audio portion for this to be stable.  If you don't pass through both you will have some serious stability issues.

 

It's so obvious when it's pointed out, and I've always, without thinking, included both in my VMs but I suppose if it doesn't occur to you then it probably needs to be documented better, especially as there seem to be several people who have fallen foul of this now..

I agree about the documentation. I don't remember see that in any documentation but I see how that can cause a problem.