VM Engine (KVM)

For support configuring your own virtual machines, including assigning PCI/USB devices (such as graphics, sound, networking, etc.), and other tuning tweaks.

8062 topics in this forum

  1. VirtioFS Support Page 1 2 3 4 11

    By SimonF,
    • 263 replies
    • 54.2k views

  2. Performance Improvements in VMs by adjusting CPU pinning and assignment 1 2 3 4 14

    By dlandon,
    • 331 replies
    • 405k views

  3. Intel IGD (integrated graphics) Pass Through Support - March 2016 Update 1 2 3 4 7

    By jonp,
    • 169 replies
    • 275.8k views

  4. VM USB Passthrough Multiple Devices with the same Vendor/Product 1 2

    By kingfetty,
    • 34 replies
    • 70.9k views

  5. FAQ Feedback - for VM FAQ 1 2

    By RobJ,
    • 31 replies
    • 88.2k views

  6. VM FAQ

    By RobJ,
    • 21 replies
    • 131.2k views

  7. Hardware recommendations for unRAID servers with VM's 1 2

    By RobJ,
    • 31 replies
    • 86.2k views

  8. Simpler / Easier PCI Device Pass Through for NON-GPUs 1 2 3 4 5

    By jonp,
    • 102 replies
    • 168.3k views

  9. ***GUIDE*** Passing Through Network Controllers to unRAID 6 Virtual Machines

    Topic was moved to forum VMs

  10. ***GUIDE*** Passthrough Entire PCI USB Controller

    Topic was moved to forum VMs

  11. AMD 7800xt passthrough issues

    By reluctantflux,
    • 1 reply
    • 244 views

  12. OPNsense VM only seeing 1 out of 2 passed through NIC's

    By Ephoxia,
    • 3 replies
    • 150 views

  13. Secondary VM not booting when cores overlap with primary VM

    By mackid1993,
    • 5 replies
    • 166 views

  14. Resizing my Home Assitant VM Vdisk

    By Peter0815,
    • 7 replies
    • 124 views

  15. GPU Passthrough is EASY - Here's how 1 2

    By dopeytree,
    • 35 replies
    • 33.6k views

  16. Help Needed - 7800XT Dissappears After Bound to VFIO

    By the_scarian,
    • 0 replies
    • 43 views

  17. teknoparrot opens a new window then closes

    By Finbarqs,
    • 0 replies
    • 43 views

  18. AMD APU Ryzen 5700G iGPU Passthrough on 6.9.2 1 2 3 4 9

    By q3bing,
    • 201 replies
    • 86k views

  19. VM BACKUP

    By tessierp,
    • 7 replies
    • 2.5k views

  20. [SOLVED] Expand Windows Volume (incorrect partition order)

    By gray squirrel,
    • 10 replies
    • 4.4k views

  21. Help needed with GPU Passthrough

    By peterbata,
    • 0 replies
    • 137 views

  22. SSD IOMMU Passthrough can't see drive on boot (but can during Windows 11 install)

    By FrForget,
    • 3 replies
    • 119 views

  23. VMS audio is stuttering and popping

    By drtechnolust,
    • 1 reply
    • 119 views

  24. Lost 1 of 2 ODD Pass Throughs following Windows update.

    By Fidelis,
    • 1 reply
    • 103 views

  25. Creating a VM from an existing image

    By malaki86,
    • 1 reply
    • 85 views

  26. Convert VM to new physical machine

    By malaki86,
    • 3 replies
    • 135 views

  27. qemu-system-x86_64: VFIO_MAP_DMA failed: Invalid argument 1 2

    By darthkielbasa,
    • 37 replies
    • 6.6k views

  28. Game server stuttering

    By Noobster2000,
    • 1 reply
    • 148 views

  29. Windows 10 VM random and periodically freezing

    By eds,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.3k views

  30. Cannot delete VM

    By XenoUniv3rse,
    • 3 replies
    • 131 views

  31. Windows 10 VM stuck loading after entering credentials

    By Jebberino84,
    • 8 replies
    • 176 views

  32. No audio in W11 VM

    By Jerlam,
    • 2 replies
    • 154 views

  33. Tell me about backups

    By CowboyRedBeard,
    • 2 replies
    • 110 views

  34. Onboard Intel Wifi & UNRaid USB Reset Bug

    By OldManBeard,
    • 1 reply
    • 140 views

  35. Ubuntu VM - cannot access shares

    By malaki86,
    • 3 replies
    • 118 views

  36. Can I use cloud-init to provision VMs?

    By Meowcat285,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.9k views

  37. [SOLVED] VM XML View - Expand Editor

    By shpitz461,
    • 2 replies
    • 152 views

  38. gpu and usb controller not passing together to vm

    By delgadot2040,
    • 4 replies
    • 300 views

  39. No VNC option to run VM anymore

    By Jerlam,
    • 4 replies
    • 139 views

  40. VM Network Speed Bottleneck (10Gbps)

    By adb045,
    • 4 replies
    • 202 views

  41. Windows 11 VM Won't Boot - Other VMs Are Fine

    By napalmyourmom,
    • 1 reply
    • 466 views

  42. Cannot get audio passthrough working

    By RossStreet,
    • 0 replies
    • 110 views

  43. VPN client on Ubuntu Desktop never connects

    By YDouble,
    • 1 reply
    • 192 views

  44. GPU passthrough in Ubuntu desktop 22.04 VM not recognized 1 2

    By JKunraid,
    • 28 replies
    • 837 views

  45. KVM, VNC and German @ character... oh my!

    By mplogas,
    • 1 reply
    • 119 views

  46. Passthrough of ConBee II Zigbee USB Gateway to Home Assistant Virtual Machine 1 2 3 4 5

    By danioj,
    • 106 replies
    • 37.8k views

  47. Problem, gpu passthrough

    By drmetro,
    • 0 replies
    • 88 views

  48. Starting multiple VM on boot in certain order with delays

    By chrisgtl,
    • 0 replies
    • 94 views

  49. Want to passthrough only gpu on unraid to win10 VM

    By drmetro,
    • 0 replies
    • 104 views

  50. CPU pinning

    By Noobster2000,
    • 0 replies
    • 123 views