Unraid 6.8: will I have to redo my VMs?

[tmchow]

I have 6.7 running on my server and have 2 VMs:

 

1. Linux running Home Assistant (OVMF bios and a Q35-3.1 machine)

 

2. Windows 10 (OVMF bios and i440fx machine)

 

I’ve read pockets of mentions about people needing to redo their VMs due to new machine types.

 

Will I have to? How do you “redo” a VM—is this recreating them from scratch? How can I easily “migrate” my existing VMs?

[david279]

you dont have to redo anything. If you want you could change the machine types of the VMs to the newer ones. 6.8 has 4.0.1 and 4.1 available to use.

[tmchow]

you dont have to redo anything. If you want you could change the machine types of the VMs to the newer ones. 6.8 has 4.0.1 and 4.1 available to use.

Thanks for quick reply. When you say change the machine type, is that just shutting them down, editing settings and starting up again?

[david279]

Just now, tmchow said:

 

Thanks for quick reply. When you say change the machine type, is that just shutting them down, editing settings and starting up again?

 

yep its as easy as changing 3.1 to 4.1

[bastl]

36 minutes ago, tmchow said:

Will I have to? How do you “redo” a VM—is this recreating them from scratch? How can I easily “migrate” my existing VMs?

You had to "redo" the VMs if you had them created on RC5 with Qemu version 4.1 setup in the template. Qemu was reverted back to 4.0.1 in RC5 because of an issue with qcow2 vdisk becoming corrupt on XFS disks. It's fixed in RC6 with Qemu 4.1.1.