harika Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Build notes as of today (fully updated unRAID system and pluggins) ... I do not necessarily expect any support on this, possibly these notes can be useful to another in some way. **edit to add logs if anyone wanted to see em** Use case for my unRAID build was to add some flexibility to my existing gaming system. I wanted to have a solid storage system and the ability to load dockers. As it is (replacing?) a gaming box, that was one large piece of the puzzle for me. Attempted to add Windows 7 x64, install failed due to the unsigned drivers issue with virtio. Some suggest its due to my win7 install media. See : https://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=41652.0 and: https://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=45141.0 also this one for a possible work around: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/3173-63-driver-signed-windows-setup I ended up with a windows 7 32-bit install. I was unable to install the ATI drivers for the graphics card I chose to pass through (R9 380). ATI install would fail at the beginning of the install. I have not successfully passed through the HD5850...that is my next mission. ....THEN....One of my 2 BTRFS cache disks dropped out and took the OS with it. Dockers: I tried to setup MineOS based on some other docker work. The one in community apps would never load for me so I went out to dockers hub and let community apps template it for me. I did get one version of MineOS working but it was VERY unstable, frequently crashing the servers inside. I also noticed that attempting to log on with root immediately crashed the MineOS docker. Similar to the MineOS docker, I went looking for a 7 Days to Die docker. Again I was unable to get a working and stable docker. There were three versions I tried and the furthest I could get was to restart the container after it started its download several times. Once the third restart was complete I was able to see that the server started...and immediately shut down need to troubleshoot that still, but I have to learn a LOT more about dockers first. Other issues: At the moment I am seeking advice on what I thought was a defect in how hard drives are listed in the include/exclude drives list on each share. Apparently others do not have this issue. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=46289.0 Peripherals: Gigabyte mouse - not detected as a USB device, unavailable for USB pass-through. I hope the USB cards and PCI pass-through will fix this. Sportsbot mouse - not detected as a USB device, unavailable for USB pass-through. I hope the USB cards and PCI pass-through will fix this. Razer Death Stalker Keyboard - Detected Razer Arcosa Keyboard - Detected *note detection is listed exactly the same for both Razer keyboards Sportsbot Keyboard - Detected *listed as some kind of Chinese device Motherboard: ASrock Z87 Extreme6 (with the all USB ports on one BUS issue) *(added due to motherboard single USB BUS issue)* PCI-E - USB-3.0 card *(added due to motherboard single USB BUS issue)* PCI - USB-2.0 card Graphics Cards: Initially configured with ACS option to split them off the same bus. *(removed)*MSI R9 380 2GD5T OC Graphics Card - Detected as: [AMD/ATI] Tonga PRO [Radeon R9 285] (rev f1) Radeon HD 5850 - XFX HD-585A-ZNFK Sound Card: Creative Labs EMU20k2 [X-Fi Titanium Series] Storage devices(11x): 3x - 3TB Seagates - one for parity 5x - 1TB SSHD Seagates 2x - BX200 Crucial SSDs - One for cache 1x - Cruser Fit 32GB - installed on motherboard USB port **apparently this did go right for me, many people report issues with the 32GB version of this USB Flash. tower-diagnostics-20160205-2031.zip Quote Link to comment
harika Posted February 6, 2016 Author Share Posted February 6, 2016 Had some learning to do today... I just bought the PCI cards so I can have plug and play while in the windows OS. https://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=36768.0 was pretty helpful but I did have a question about bus numbering. root@Tower:~# lspci | grep USB 00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI (rev 04) 00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #2 (rev 04) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #1 (rev 04) 05:00.0 USB controller: Fresco Logic Device 1100 (rev 10) 07:01.0 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 61) 07:01.1 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 61) 07:01.2 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 63) I was looking at bus 5 it seems, this is my USB 3.0 PCIe card. However, when looking at System Devices I see the devices I plugged into it listed as BUS 3. Why is it different? Bus 003 Device 008: ID e0ff:0005 Bus 003 Device 003: ID 1a7c:0191 Evoluent VerticalMouse 4 Bus 003 Device 007: ID 1532:010b Razer USA, Ltd Bus 003 Device 006: ID 2109:2812 Bus 003 Device 009: ID 18f8:0f97 Bus 003 Device 004: ID 2109:2812 Bus 003 Device 002: ID 2109:2812 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Also, you may notice the blank spaces, those are USB devices that are not properly detected, is there anything I can do about that? This is what I added to my XML to pass through the card, is that correct? <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x05' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </source> </hostdev> Finally, once I built the windows 7 box with VNC I shutdown and added my HD5850 and booted, I could see the start menu so all looked good, however no keyboards or mouse would work. (hence my above questions) Also, when shutting down, the windows 7 shutdown screen lingers on my monitor, the VM is red/stopped but I still see the shutdown screen, can I fix that? Quote Link to comment
harika Posted February 15, 2016 Author Share Posted February 15, 2016 I stopped by the master PCI pass-through thread, saarg gave me the below. Works well on a fresh unraid boot but if I ever make a mistake and click edit I will have to rebooot unRAID in order to get the Windows VM to boot again. <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x05' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </source> </hostdev> If I ever make the mistake of clicking edit, I get the following errors when trying to bring the Windows VM online: Execution error internal error: early end of file from monitor: possible problem: 2016-02-15T13:32:21.429820Z qemu-system-x86_64: -device vfio-pci,host=05:00.0,id=hostdev0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6: vfio: Error: Failed to setup INTx fd: Device or resource busy 2016-02-15T13:32:21.430262Z qemu-system-x86_64: -device vfio-pci,host=05:00.0,id=hostdev0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6: Device initialization failed 2016-02-15T13:32:21.430276Z qemu-system-x86_64: -device vfio-pci,host=05:00.0,id=hostdev0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6: Device 'vfio-pci' could not be initialized So far I have a VM ubuntu server up with 7 days to die, I used https://7dtd.illy.bz/wiki/Installation for the install. I gave up on docker for now. It works but on occasion when playing on the server with my Windows VM (above) unRAID crashes. I have to force it off as nothing is responsive. Quote Link to comment
harika Posted March 27, 2016 Author Share Posted March 27, 2016 The below applies to current updated system: unRAID Server OS : 6.1.9 Dynamix webGui : 2016.03.05 Community Applications: 2016.03.26 Unassigned Devices : 2016.03.26 Occasionally unRAID goes unresponsive, no telnet, not webGUI. When this happens it also takes out my LAN, I can see the switch flashing like its going out of style, if I disconnect unRAID from the switch I can get back to a working LAN. This is on my list to troubleshoot, it seems like a full crash as the power button (which normally shuts down all VMs and then turns off unRAID) does nothing on a single press and I must press and hold to shut it down. I can handle working through this one but it takes 7 hours for a parity check once it flakes out like this. Any chance someone else sees this, or knows a troubleshooting step? Quote Link to comment
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