Feeling particularly stupid, but I have just put together a new build, I can install unraid and create VMs, but I just can't seem to update my hardware such as GPU, Mobo. How do you go about doing it?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

 

Not quite sure what you mean by this.  Sounds like you already updated your gpu and mobo

Sorry, I have a completely virgin system, how can I load drivers for all the components within unraid or do I need to install a version of windows first?

 

 

You install the appropriate drivers for gpu etc within the vm

You install the appropriate drivers for gpu etc within the vm

 

I tried doing that with the AMD driver for my firepro, looked like everything was ok, then it rebooted and had BSOD with memory dump, can only boot up in safe mode now.

Would be helpful if you post your exact hardware specs and xml file for the vm

Tried various windows versions, 7, 8.1 and 10 pro, every single time I can create a VM, install windows but as soon as I load the AMD firepro drivers the VM crashes, in windows 7 I can go to recovery and roll back, in 8.1 its a dead VM and in windows 10 it crashes the whole box, I didn't think VMs could do that?

 

System spec:

 

Asus Z10PE D16 WS

Dual Xeon 2630 V3

64GB Kingston DDR4 ECC RAM

AMD Firepro W7100 GPU

MSI 560Ti

Corsair AX1500i

 

HDDs 4 x 4TB HGST NAS drives acting as array

1TB Sandisk Ultra II as the cache drive

 

 

<domain type='kvm'>

  <name>Tuan10</name>

  <uuid>d34c2a25-9ac4-7abc-0792-6e21923794ff</uuid>

  <metadata>

    <vmtemplate name="Custom" icon="windows.png" os="windows"/>

  </metadata>

  <memory unit='KiB'>24641536</memory>

  <currentMemory unit='KiB'>24641536</currentMemory>

  <memoryBacking>

    <nosharepages/>

    <locked/>

  </memoryBacking>

  <vcpu placement='static'>12</vcpu>

  <cputune>

    <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='0'/>

    <vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='1'/>

    <vcpupin vcpu='2' cpuset='2'/>

    <vcpupin vcpu='3' cpuset='3'/>

    <vcpupin vcpu='4' cpuset='4'/>

    <vcpupin vcpu='5' cpuset='5'/>

    <vcpupin vcpu='6' cpuset='6'/>

    <vcpupin vcpu='7' cpuset='7'/>

    <vcpupin vcpu='8' cpuset='8'/>

    <vcpupin vcpu='9' cpuset='9'/>

    <vcpupin vcpu='10' cpuset='10'/>

    <vcpupin vcpu='11' cpuset='11'/>

  </cputune>

  <os>

    <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-2.3'>hvm</type>

    <loader type='pflash'>/usr/share/qemu/ovmf-x64/OVMF-pure-efi.fd</loader>

  </os>

  <features>

    <acpi/>

    <apic/>

    <hyperv>

      <relaxed state='on'/>

      <vapic state='on'/>

      <spinlocks state='on' retries='8191'/>

    </hyperv>

  </features>

  <cpu mode='host-passthrough'>

    <topology sockets='1' cores='12' threads='1'/>

  </cpu>

  <clock offset='localtime'>

    <timer name='hypervclock' present='yes'/>

    <timer name='hpet' present='no'/>

  </clock>

  <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>

  <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>

  <on_crash>restart</on_crash>

  <devices>

    <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator>

    <disk type='file' device='disk'>

      <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='writeback'/>

      <source file='/mnt/user/vdisks/Tuan10/vdisk1.img'/>

      <target dev='hdc' bus='virtio'/>

      <boot order='1'/>

      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/>

    </disk>

    <disk type='file' device='disk'>

      <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='writeback'/>

      <source file='/mnt/user/ArrayVdisks/Tuan10/vdisk2.img'/>

      <target dev='hdd' bus='virtio'/>

      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/>

    </disk>

    <disk type='file' device='cdrom'>

      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>

      <source file='/mnt/user/ISOs/-Getintopc.com-Windows_10_Pro-Core_x64_EN.ISO'/>

      <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>

      <readonly/>

      <boot order='2'/>

      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/>

    </disk>

    <disk type='file' device='cdrom'>

      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>

      <source file='/mnt/user/ISOs/virtio-win-0.1.110.iso'/>

      <target dev='hdb' bus='ide'/>

      <readonly/>

      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='1'/>

    </disk>

    <controller type='usb' index='0'>

      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x2'/>

    </controller>

    <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'/>

    <controller type='ide' index='0'>

      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x1'/>

    </controller>

    <controller type='virtio-serial' index='0'>

      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/>

    </controller>

    <interface type='bridge'>

      <mac address='52:54:00:28:24:ea'/>

      <source bridge='br0'/>

      <model type='virtio'/>

      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/>

    </interface>

    <serial type='pty'>

      <target port='0'/>

    </serial>

    <console type='pty'>

      <target type='serial' port='0'/>

    </console>

    <channel type='unix'>

      <source mode='bind' path='/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/channel/target/Tuan10.org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/>

      <target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/>

      <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='1'/>

    </channel>

    <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'>

      <driver name='vfio'/>

      <source>

        <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>

      </source>

      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/>

    </hostdev>

    <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'>

      <driver name='vfio'/>

      <source>

        <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x00' function='0x1'/>

      </source>

      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0'/>

    </hostdev>

    <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb' managed='yes'>

      <source>

        <vendor id='0x1b1c'/>

        <product id='0x1c02'/>

      </source>

    </hostdev>

    <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb' managed='yes'>

      <source>

        <vendor id='0x1b1c'/>

        <product id='0x1b20'/>

      </source>

    </hostdev>

    <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb' managed='yes'>

      <source>

        <vendor id='0x04d8'/>

        <product id='0x0b27'/>

      </source>

    </hostdev>

    <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb' managed='yes'>

      <source>

        <vendor id='0x045e'/>

        <product id='0x0748'/>

      </source>

    </hostdev>

    <memballoon model='virtio'>

      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x08' function='0x0'/>

    </memballoon>

  </devices>

</domain>

 

 

Any help would be much appreciated