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  1. This maybe of help to those who have found themselves either with a corrupted vdisk or their Windows OS suddenly decides to format the disk or does anything funky with it. In my scenario, I had a stable but slow Windows 10 VM with a Samsung NVME and GTX1080ti passthrough and a Vdisk on the array, no matter what I tried I could never achieve bare metal speeds, at its best it was twice as slow. I persisted with it because I had other VMs running. One day, after a Windows update and forced reboot, it would not boot and would freeze and could not be fixed by start up repair. The only way I could boot it was to remove the Vdisk. I stupidly did not backup the Vdisk as I presumed all the data was already backed up to my amazon drive, forgetting that Amazon drive changed their service and broke my folder sync. I tried to attach the Vdisk to another VM and during boot up, Windows 10 decided to write over the disk and re-labelling it. To my horror when the VM booted up, the drive was completely empty. I feared all my work had been wiped, and as it wasn't a physical disc, I would not be able to recover anything from it. After a quick google search, I found some data recovery programs, and tried out Easeus Data Recovery Wizard Professional. The software is a quick download and install, to say I was blown away when I ran it is an understatement. The massive relief to see files appearing on a drive which had nothing according to WIndows was out of this world. The great thing is you download the trial version, see if it works and then pay for a licence once you know are ready to recover. The whole process of discovery and restore took about a day, but I got my data back from a situation I thought was hopeless. Edit: limetech deleted link After 2 years with Unraid, I will go back to bare metal and look for other alternatives as the performance hit has become significant.
  2. i watched the new machine load up and it didn't perform a format. It booted up quickly.
  3. I have been running a Windows 10 VM with NVME passthrough as my boot and OS drive and a second Vdisk to store my files. Whilst editing another W10 VM, I accidentally assigned my second Vdisk to that VM whilst my main machine was shut down as I was using an iPad to set it up. I didn't realise it until the other machine booted up and I went to check the drives, and could see that the new VM had changed the drive name and all the original folders were gone. I stopped the machine, and now cannot add the Vdisk to my main machine as Unraid gives me an error, Anyone know if the change is permanent and can it be fixed?
  4. I have a GTX 1080Ti and managed to pass it through without any issues, I did not need the rom file. Try deleting the lines highlighted in black and let KVM reassign them to see if that works for you.
  5. CPU is 2 x Intel Xeon E5 2630 V3, I passed through 4 paired cores, 24 Gigs of DDR4 ECC Ram as well as the NVME and GTX1080ti. What I cant understand is that there is no increase in fps when I change down from UHD to 1080p even though I am running the latest firmware. I changed both CPU and GPU to performance and nothing really changes other that GPU utilisation drops from 90%+ to around 40%.
  6. Hi, I have watched Gridrunner's videos and managed to passthrough an NVME as my OS drive and a GTX1080Ti to a windows 10 VM. The performance is really poor, I cannot get above 60fps in games such as BF1 and Far Cry5 or any other older games. At times the fps can get above 200fps but when the game loads it drops down to between 25-50fps regardless of whether I use 1080p or UHD. I have installed the latest NVIDIA software without any issues. As the NVME is passthrough, I can load windows 10 normally without the Unraid VM environment and the card performs as expected, as soon as it boots from Unraid performance just dies, I have no idea why this is the case, any help would be appreciated.
  7. When I say slow, I mean really really slow, currently taking 10 minutes to open a photo app whch normally takes seconds!
  8. Since one of my Windows 10 VM was crashing intermittently, i thought I would try 6.4 RC18f, so far it has been stable but all VMs are running very slowly despite one VM with NVME passthrough and 24Gig of RAM. Anyone experiencing similar issues or am I just unlucky with my config?
  9. Have you tried editing the VM XML with the following: So when you press edit VM you should see both ports checked on the Other Pci devices drop down list.
  10. Over the last 2 days my Windows 10 VM keeps crashing intermittently. The VM is mounted on an NVME which is passthrough along with AMD W7100 video card. I have updated all softwards and it keeps doing it. Here is the log file before it crashed again.
  11. Urgent Help Needed My Unraid box has been running along nicely with the acceptable quirk that I could never turn off my W10 NVME machine without the need to reboot the whole system. After much nagging by Windows I updated my WIndows 10, it went to shut down and normally I would reboot the system and get it going again, this is now not happening. I have no idea which part of my VM config has been messed up, but one constant thing is that when I try to assign primary Vdisk as a block NVME device it keeps giving me an error that it was not found even though it appears in my unassigned devices as well as when I use the root@Tower:~# udevadm info -q all -n /dev/nvme0n1 which gives me I can boot my other VMs which are on SSDs My XML is Any help would be much appreciated
  12. Thank you all for your replies. my system is: Asus Z10PE D16WS 64GB DDR4 ECC Ram Asus HD5450 ( wife's windows 10 VM), some how Samsung EVO 840 500GB is now showing up as QEMU disk AMD Firepro W7100 (my windows 10 rig) managed to passthrough Samsung 950 pro 512GB NVME but disappears or restart or shut down Windows 10 VM with no gpu used for Blue Iris security camera suite this goes into pause mode constantly, accessed from my rig via RDP I used the new OVMF which was the only way I could get the NVME to boot now, though I got it to boot in the past without this new bios. The NVME is attached to PCIE card which I checked was resettable, so not sure why it is not resetting.
  13. I am not an IT person, but by following guides and searching through the forums I have managed to build an Unraid system that serves 3 Windows 10 VMs, 2 of those used to have their SSD & NVME drives passed through and recognised as such by windows, I am not sure what has happened when I did various Unraid upgrades they became QEMU disks though I haven't made any changes to the syslinux or xml files. Following Gridrunner's helpful videos and subsequent discussions I have managed to passthrough my NVME drive and use it as a boot drive for Windows 10, the issue I have is that if I restart Windows 10 the drive disappears and the only way I can get it back is to reboot the whole Unraid server, any help would be much appreciated. Here are my files: Devices Syslinux XML
  14. I managed to passthrough an SSD and NVME to 2 different windows 10 VMs which were working great with W10 recognising them and I was able to install Samsung Magician and drivers. Since I updated to 6.33 these drives are now listed as QEMU hard disks. The only reason I noticed was because I was getting high latency on youtube videos and when checked with latency progs it identified the drive issues. I have tried to redo passthrough but still getting QEMU drives instead of SSD, any suggestions?
  15. Thank you very much Squid that did the trick!!!