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.

8065 topics in this forum

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

    By dlandon,
    • 331 replies
    • 405.1k views

  2. VirtioFS Support Page 1 2 3 4 11

    By SimonF,
    • 263 replies
    • 54.4k 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. Simpler / Easier PCI Device Pass Through for NON-GPUs 1 2 3 4 5

    By jonp,
    • 102 replies
    • 168.4k views

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

    By kingfetty,
    • 34 replies
    • 70.9k views

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

    By RobJ,
    • 31 replies
    • 86.3k views

  7. FAQ Feedback - for VM FAQ 1 2

    By RobJ,
    • 31 replies
    • 88.2k views

  8. VM FAQ

    By RobJ,
    • 21 replies
    • 131.2k views

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

    Topic was moved to forum VMs

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

    Topic was moved to forum VMs

  11. ** Hackintosh ** Tips to make a bare metal MacOS 1 2 3 4 44

    By Leoyzen,
    • 1.1k replies
    • 238.6k views

  12. [PLUGIN DEPRECATED] VM Manager (2015.02.24) 1 2 3 4 23

    By dmacias,
    • 566 replies
    • 126.5k views

  13. ***GUIDE*** Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan – VM on unRAID 1 2 3 4 22

    By archedraft,
    • 529 replies
    • 138.3k views

  14. unRAID plugin for iGPU SR-IOV support 1 2 3 4 16

    By zhtengw,
    • 399 replies
    • 74.9k views

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

    By q3bing,
    • 201 replies
    • 86.1k views

  16. [PLUGIN] Web Virtual Manager (depreciated) 1 2 3 4 7

    By dmacias,
    • 157 replies
    • 35.3k views

  17. Win10 VM graphics pass-through broke after AMD BIOS update 1 2 3 4 6

    By mattz,
    • 136 replies
    • 43.9k views

  18. Xpenology VM any one running this ? 1 2 3 4 6

    By Randall8686,
    • 131 replies
    • 61.4k views

  19. Ryzen/Threadripper PSA: Core Numberings and Assignments 1 2 3 4 6

    By thenonsense,
    • 130 replies
    • 37.6k views

  20. AMD GPU Reset Bug? 1 2 3 4 6

    By Living Legend,
    • 130 replies
    • 42k views

  21. article: Running OSX Mavericks under KVM with QEMM 1 2 3 4 6

    By spants,
    • 128 replies
    • 37.3k views

  22. Any use WebVirtMgr with KVM ?? 1 2 3 4 5

    By Pducharme,
    • 120 replies
    • 28.2k views

  23. ***GUIDE*** How to passthrough Intel chipset audio 1 2 3 4 5

    By matthope,
    • 119 replies
    • 46.2k views

  24. FPS drops, stuttering, and other things that make me sad 1 2 3 4 5

    By iphillips77,
    • 119 replies
    • 39.2k views

  25. Sample xml file for windows 8.1 and GPU/USB passtrough 1 2 3 4 5

    By peter_sm,
    • 110 replies
    • 36.8k views

  26. ASUS ROG Zenith Extreme Alpha X399 1 2 3 4 5

    By jbartlett,
    • 107 replies
    • 17.5k views

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

    By danioj,
    • 106 replies
    • 37.9k views

  28. Some pointers on KVM, GPU Pass Through, and Syslinux.cfg 1 2 3 4 5

    By jonp,
    • 103 replies
    • 39.6k views

  29. NVME M.2 Passthrough 1 2 3 4 5

    By Jerky_san,
    • 101 replies
    • 54.6k views

  30. At my wits end with latency and audio drops in win10vm w/ threadripper 1950x 1 2 3 4

    By Tritech,
    • 94 replies
    • 12.5k views

  31. GPU passthrough with only one card? 1 2 3 4

    By d4rkf,
    • 91 replies
    • 117.4k views

  32. Windows 10 VM completely freezing after 6.11.1 upgrade 1 2 3 4

    By johnsanc,
    • 87 replies
    • 11k views

  33. Help Setting Up Ubuntu Server To Run TVheadend 1 2 3 4

    By Monkeyair,
    • 82 replies
    • 16.6k views

  34. FreeBSD 11.3+ - no network interface after upgrade 1 2 3 4

    By WashingtonMatt,
    • 81 replies
    • 11.9k views

  35. Libvirt Service failed to start 1 2 3 4

    By isaacery,
    • 81 replies
    • 61.2k views

  36. ** VIDEO GUIDE - How to Easily Dump a vBIOS from any GPU directly from the Server for passthrough 1 2 3 4

    By SpaceInvaderOne,
    • 79 replies
    • 42k views

  37. Performance problem with a gaming VM 1 2 3 4

    By DarkyCage,
    • 76 replies
    • 8.6k views

  38. SSD Write performance 1 2 3

    By billington.mark,
    • 72 replies
    • 26.3k views

  39. Can my components in my pc become 2 Gaming rigs? (VIRTUALISATION) 1 2 3

    By vanlooverenkoen,
    • 71 replies
    • 21k views

  40. Help!!! (I cannot get windows vm to run) 1 2 3

    By Rovivrus,
    • 71 replies
    • 10.4k views

  41. OpenFLIXR 2.5.1 U1 (Sunday, July 29, 2018) 1 2 3

    By openflixr,
    • 71 replies
    • 30.5k views

  42. OpenElec on V6.0 b15 1 2 3

    By bertrandr,
    • 68 replies
    • 16.5k views

  43. Stuttering GPU passthrough, or maybe CPU? 1 2 3

    By reexe,
    • 67 replies
    • 29.1k views

  44. Upgrade from 6.9.2 -> 6.10.RC4 USB in VM problem 1 2 3

    By casperse,
    • 66 replies
    • 9.3k views

  45. Rebooting GPU Passthrough VM takes entire unraid to freeze 1 2 3

    By takkkkkkk,
    • 65 replies
    • 11.9k views

  46. [SOLVED] VM running off of single, dedicated disk... 1 2 3

    By rmp5s,
    • 62 replies
    • 11.4k views

  47. 9P Sharing files between host and guest 1 2 3

    By dmacias,
    • 60 replies
    • 39.5k views

  48. unRAID crashes after GPU Passthrough to Windows KVM 1 2 3

    By cap089,
    • 59 replies
    • 11k views

  49. Help requested for AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 4650g Passthrough 1 2 3

    By DrMucki,
    • 57 replies
    • 16.6k views

  50. **VIDEO GUIDE** How to passthrough and boot from an NVMe controller for bare metal performance in unRAID 1 2 3

    By SpaceInvaderOne,
    • 56 replies
    • 28.8k views