[?] Booting UNRAID with 2 connected "UNRAID" USB sticks

Hello,

I currently have 2 UNRAID servers:

* Production server (PRO license)

* Virtualized development server running under Windows Virtualbox with USB stick passed through with a BASIC license.

I want to run the Virtualized development server under UNRAID Virtualbox.

This will cause the production server to have upon boot 2 USB sticks named "UNRAID".

Can I boot unRAID with 2 connected "UNRAID" USB sticks?

* The 1st is the UNRAID production server USB stick with the actual production license.

* The 2nd is for the UNRAID Virtual Machine I will be running over Virtualbox for development purposes with the Basic License.

Is there any other way of doing it?

This is possible, I have one KVM unraid VM that use one of my 2 USB sticks for the pro licence, I boot with both these USB:s connected , but I "hide" the USB that my VM use in syslinux.cfg with pci-stub.ids, without that it will not work.

My VM boots from an .vhd image file and use the USB for the licencing.

//Peter

This is possible, I have one KVM unraid VM that use one of my 2 USB sticks for the pro licence, I boot with both these USB:s connected , but I "hide" the USB that my VM use in syslinux.cfg with pci-stub.ids, without that it will not work.

 

My VM boots from an .vhd image file and use the USB for the licencing.

 

 

//Peter

Can you elaborate on how you hide it...

This is my modified line in syslinux.cfg

  append pci-stub.ids=8086:1e31 initrd=/bzroot

use lspci -nn

00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller [8086:1e31] (rev 04)

Then I use this code in my xml file to pass trough my USB

 <qemu:commandline>
    <qemu:arg value='-device'/>
    <qemu:arg value='vfio-pci,host=00:14.0,bus=pcie.0'/>
  </qemu:commandline>

Peter is passing through an entire USB controller that has one of the USB sticks and the other is attached to a different USB controller.

That's right  , one controller have my USB for the VM, my other USB are on another controller.

Don't know if you can use pci.stubs on a single device

No, you can't. PCI stubs are for PCI devices only, not individual USB devices.

I will give it a try but I dont thnk it will work. If it hides the usb controller from unraid then virtualbox which is running on it will probably not see it as well,  wouldnt it?

I ran lspci -nn:

00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI [8086:8c31] (rev 05)
00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #2 [8086:8c2d] (rev 05)
00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #1 [8086:8c26] (rev 05)

From this output I assume I have 3 USB controllers on the motherboard/chipset, correct?

If so how do I know to which USB controller the USB stick is connected to?

When you use PCI stub (on a USB motherboard controller or any other PCI device), does it hide it completely from unRAID? will it not be listed under PCI devices anymore (until stub removed)?

You should see it even if you use pci stub

You should see it even if you use pci stub

And if i connect a usb drive to that usb controller will unraid see it or not?

Use lspci -knn look for  kernel drive in use

You should see it even if you use pci stub

 

And if i connect a usb drive to that usb controller will unraid see it or not?

No, only if you pass through to a VM, but you can try and see if you can use it in Unraid, but I think no.

I am trying to map my USB ports on the X10SLL-F board and have a problem.

Please look at my post http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=36768.msg450458#msg450458