I desperately want to turn this system of mine into a storage server/HTPC, but the VMs... they won't boot. I made a video showing and describing the issue:

 

 

PC Specs:

unRAID 6.2.1

Dell Optiplex 9020

i7 4770

4GB Ram

1TB HDD

Radeon 8490 HD

Could you post your diagnostics from Tools --> Diagnostics?

You could try getting the bios for your card and adding it to the VM XML to see if that helps. It's described in the unraid 6 manual. Should be in the bottom right corner on the webgui.

Do you have integrated graphics on your mainboard or is this the only graphics?

You could also try stubbing the card. There is info about this in the 6.2 release announcement.

Is your vms ovmf or seabios? Might help to switch them. On the openelec you could do this without reinstall, but for the others you need to make a new VM.

Could you post a screenshot of your fedora template with advanced view enabled?

 

Not a big fan of making videos like this as it doesn't give us that much info, and the quality was too low to see what the text says. Its fine for showing issues that are hard to describe, as a supplement.

Diagnostics here. Lemme work on the rest. BRB

 

Yes, there's integrated graphics as well as the GPU.

 

Here's my Fedora template:

unraid-diagnostics-20161011-2039.zip

So I created my windows 10 VM from scratch using seabios and I also changed my machine type to Q35. It looked good for a minute. I got the windows installation going, loaded the virtio drivers and everything. Then it crashed during installation. Quite early into the installation, actually.

 

I still haven't tried messing with the xml or the GPU roms or anything though, so next time I get a chance, I'll try that.

 

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Two questions, is this a new issue since upgrading to 6.2.1 or is this a new untested installation?

 

If you click "Info" in the unRAID GUI does it show HVM and IOMMU as "Enabled"?

Two questions, is this a new issue since upgrading to 6.2.1 or is this a new untested installation?

 

This is a brand new installation. My first experience with unRAID, actually.

 

If you click "Info" in the unRAID GUI does it show HVM and IOMMU as "Enabled"?

 

Yep, both enabled.

 

You could try getting the bios for your card and adding it to the VM XML to see if that helps. It's described in the unraid 6 manual. Should be in the bottom right corner on the webgui.

 

Can't find the BIOS for this card. The Techpowerup database doesn't seem to have it

 

You could also try stubbing the card. There is info about this in the 6.2 release announcement.

 

I read the release announcement, and by that description, I thought I was already doing that by selecting the GPU from the drop-down while making the VM. Is there something I'm missing?

 

You could also try stubbing the card. There is info about this in the 6.2 release announcement.

 

I read the release announcement, and by that description, I thought I was already doing that by selecting the GPU from the drop-down while making the VM. Is there something I'm missing?

 

Stubbing the card is not the same as choosing it in the drop-down list.

Go back to the announcement thread here and read the part Stubbing and assigning other PCI devices under Virtual Machine and it should be clear what to do.

Ok, I stubbed the GPU. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction with that.

 

Still no love. I've reinstalled the Win 10 VM a number of times with different configs, but it always crashes 1% of the way into "Getting files ready for installation".

 

It definitely has to be Seabios, that much is clear. Machine type, I've tried the latest version of both, but no apparent difference. (do older versions have a chance of working better?)

 

Do I also have to stub the built-in audio device?

 

I wish I could find the bios for my GPU. I want to upgrade to a GTX 1050 when it comes out, but until then, I'm kinda stuck with what I have.

Have you tried limiting the VM to a single cpu while installing?  That seems to have helped some people.  If it works then once the installation has finished you can increase the number of cpu's to be used by the VM.

Have you tried limiting the VM to a single cpu while installing?  That seems to have helped some people.  If it works then once the installation has finished you can increase the number of cpu's to be used by the VM.

 

Single thread? Or 2 threads totaling 1 complete core?

 

Edit: OMG. I chose 2 threads and it appears to be working! *fingers crossed*

 

2nd edit: Wait, no, it got to 20% and crashed. That's progress though! Trying 1 thread...

 

Final edit: Well hot damn! The single thread option did the trick! =D

 

Thank all of you so much for your help! My trial version of unRAID is now going to become a paid version thanks to the support I got here

Well, the cork might need to be jammed back into the champagne bottle...

 

It boots, but it's still crashing after I added more cores to the VM. I get all the way into Windows, able to run things, but then it's suddenly down. Even 1 thread extra on the VM causes it. Haven't yet seen a crash on just the one thread though.

 

This might need to be a separate forum post about crashing VMs now, perhaps?

Have you checked for a BIOS update to your motherboard?

Have you checked for a BIOS update to your motherboard?

 

Yeah, I'm on the latest.