Agreed. Its got to be hard to update so many tutorials he's made over the years, but any major changes in methods, an update would always be appreciated!
One minor request, that you change your Unraid theme to "Light" during recording, as it can be difficult to see the screen shots; especially if you're flipping from your lighter screen Mac back to Unraid etc. Other than that, your tutorials have taught me a LOT!
I was having trouble around 12:30 into the video with getting my virtual disk to populate the assigned storage size. After loading the VirtIO viostor driver the drive would appear, but it would show "0 unallocated drive space". After doing some digging I found the official unraid docs for setting up a Win10 VM. Their instructions were to load the following drivers in the following order: 1. Balloon 2. NetKVM 3. vioserial 4. viostor (be sure to load this one last) For each driver that needs to be loaded, you will navigate to the driver folder, then the OS version, then the amd64 subfolder (never click to load the x86 folder) After each driver is loaded, you will need to click the Browse button again to load the next driver. This solved my issue- my drive finally appear with the allotted space I had assigned when creating the VM.
I have only bought UNRAID a few weeks ago and I find your videos very useful. So far the only video that did not seem to work in the one for High Sierra where (like others) the VM seems to boot and then reboot after starting with the install. Cheers and THANK YOU!
Hey Space, I wanted to point out that if you go to the Dashboard under the System Status it gives you Load Statistics. In the Per CPU Load section it lists it as "cpu 0/16" or "cpu 0/4" Then has two bars to the right of it. If you are using a non HT cpu is just has listed it as "cpu 0" . It is already listing it as "cpu PhysicalCore/LogicalCore" method. All you have to do it go to the dashboard, you don't have to go to the System Devices. In your feature request you might be able to adjust it to where the implement it as the Question Mark Cursor like they do other settings title, click on it and it creates a drop down of what you see in the System Devices. That way it is a fluent implemenetation across the entire system.
Hi, Cody. That's a good tip to goto the dashboard and look at the core HT list there. I had never thought of that. It certainly is quicker than navigating through tools etc. :) Yes, the tool tip question mark would be a good idea as would keep template less cluttered and would still save us having to open a new tab to few the pairings.
Thank you so much. Finally, someone explained how to make a storage drive on the array. I am assuming it will be similar in Linux. That was one of the last hurtle for a media server.😊
Ed, as usual a great reference video. I'd installed before with no issues but for some reason this time it wasnt working. Tips from video needed: 440fx not Q35, single core ALSO needed (never needed that before) but otherwise working. You videos always have little nuggets in them. Thanks
As a noobie with unraid I can't thank you enough for all the great videos. They have helped me a lot. I am running a low power rig: an asrock j1900m with embedded celeron with 8 gigs of ram and 6 drives including a cache. I had not planned to use VM's, just basically use the machine as a media server. However the lure of using the VM feature was too much. So i Installed a win 10 VM and tried a couple of linux flavors, ubuntu and fedora. My win10 and ubuntu vm work pretty good using microsoft rdp to connect to both. I gave up on fedora because of terrible vnc lag. I really appreciate the tips for improving performance that you provided especially the one's relating to vnc. I run this NAS as a headless server so vnc is a must but lack of sound, cursor and keyboard lag have been the biggest issues. A Microsoft RDP connection from my hackintosh gives me a 1080p desktop with sound with win 10 even though the VM still uses the MS basic display driver. I tried to update to the red hat qxl driver but it will not install correctly. Win finds the driver and starts to install but than disconnects my connection and reboots and reverts to the old driver. Any idea how to fix that. If I use Splashtop to connect, the win vm only gives me an 800x600 display with no sound. I did edit the win vm xml file for the sound as you described in the video. Splashtop connected to ubuntu 16.04 does have sound but some cursor lag. Ubuntu with xrdp runs smooth but no sound. I would like to have a fedora vm but I could not get it to work well. Terrible cursor and keyboard lag. Any any chance that you may be considering an optimized fedora vm tutorial or a tutorial on setting up pulse audio with xrdp or some way to get sound and decent performance on a low end setup like mine with linux. Unfortunately Splashtop offers very limited support for linux.
Thank you for all your tutorials! After completing this one, I now have a sound driver on my Windows 10 VM. The challenge is that I can see it working in the VM, but it does not pass though the sound to my PC?
Great video!!! I was bound but now am free. I have now purchase a key for Unraid after 3 years of Amahi re-installs, crashes, dead drives,, etc...I have watched 9 of your video's now and look forward to watching many more and following your exceptional tutorials. Thanks.
thank you for all the work you do its always nice knowing most concepts have already been covered by you or will be in the near future. keep up the great work
Another amazing video, really well done and clear, looking forward to the next part. Any chance you could do a vid on NextCloud or OwnCloud at some point.
This idea would be awesome! Your style is so straightforward SpaceInvader that my 1st VM was up and running without issue FAST!. I'd love the same for my NextCloud :)
Hi Spaceinvader, I'm a beginner and I found your tutorials greats !! They are helping me to build up my unraid server. I have some brief questions for you: Can I create Vdisk on a NVme disk under unassigned disks in unraid ? If yes, then in the " primary VDisk location " I should chose the partition I created on the NVMe, correct ?
AWESOME Video, very informative and right to the point nothing watered down. I'll grab a beer for your next video Definitely enjoyed it more than anticipated. thank you
Great video Ed. Whilst many of us have Win10 already installed, tips like that VNC workaround make the video worth watching for everyone. Thanks! I guess this means the Win95 video is delayed, and also the "how to use the VPN of your Deluge VPN for other dockers" also? :-( Talk about keeping them hanging!!!
Hey, James, Thanks glad you picked up some ideas from the vid. Ha yeah, win 95 got delayed. I deleted the footage I had already done by mistake so I have to record it again so what was going to be an hour or two to finish now has turned into 10 hours :( I will definitely be doing it soon. There are some good things in it that are relevant outside of the windows 95 use case. Such as passing keyboard inputs from Linux input to a virtual serial to get a keyboard working in an os with no USB support. And yes the VPN proxy, that is on the list for "soon !" This video I wanted to do a mainstream video, especially after this creator's Windows 10 seems to be a bit problematic. But after the second part of this video, i'll knock those other 2 out. :)
Good man... I had no idea W95 was that difficult.. The USB thing slipped my mind. I was worrying about the 2.0GHz speed limit on W95 that needs patching
Yeah, the patching of the 2.0-speed limit isn't difficult we just attach another floppy disk image with the patch on boot from that after install then patch the win95 vdisk. I found the main problem the keyboard and mouse. We could use vnc keyboard/mouse to do the install but vnc doesn't work to actually boot 95 we have to pass a GPU then we have no keyboard and mouse!! So we have to take the inputs from the keyboard then pass them to a virtual serial port.
Spaceinvader One. love your channel mate lotes of love here in Australia :) keep up the great video content. Are you able to address the high cpu utilization of splashdesktop? seems splashtop streamer uses quite alot of cpu (im on 2 threads) using 35% ish when running remote on res 1024x768 . the gpu acceleration nugget was very informative and will be using splash from now on thanks :)
Hi, David. Hi there over in Australia! Glad you like the videos. It seems high CPU usage for 35% for me it sits much lower. But you say you are only using 2 threads (so one core). UA-camr Twoface227 showed me this remote software. It looks very promising www.nomachine.com/ I haven't fully tested it myself but you may want to give it a try
Checked it out. Products perform similar nothing too major. NX platform is interesting as a whole as reading online. but in most personal cases Splash seems to be the quick and easy to use option, where no machine has a larger feature set. ill stick with splash for my home use but always food for thought. thanks again.
absolutely loving your videos, your well spoken easy well explained lots of zoom in and you go the extra mile to explain all you can i am a new unraid user and your videos make me happy and motivated to try these things
Awesome video! Being 3 years old is it still all still current? I'm fixing to set this up for gaming, just wondering if theres been any changes in what's best to do. Thanks so much for all the amazing content!
If anyone is crazy like I am and runs Insider Builds. starting on Build 16226 if you are running a Headless server you absolutely have to put the virtual sound card in or you will get invalid attributes when you try to elevate to an admin.
This may be just me not knowing, but I've just got a Win10 Pro Workstation VM to launch the installer. The thing is, I've had to tweek around a lot in order to figure out there were some settings that make this work for me that you glossed over. I had to set all of my I/O from IDE to SATA & set my vdisk to SATA as well. Otherwise, it would extremely slowly and wouldn't detect any vdisks when in the Win10 installer. I did have to set my BIOS type to Seabios in order for the installer to even come up, so there's that too.
New to UNRaid and I Loooooove your videos, they cover just about anything i can think of. Waiting to test these out once i get a Rig. In the meantime can you perhaps tell me the specs of your Rig that has UNRaid? Thanks
Great video, it will help a lot. Question, can I access the VM from the same machine that unraid is installed on? I have a keyboard, mouse , video, and sound on my unraid box and want to access the VM from the same machine.
I am just getting ready to boot up unraid for the first time so maybe I am getting a little ahead of myself, but I am wondering how you are connecting to the internet for this installation? My concern is with security. Your videos are excellent!!!
Great , but can we do the same via a 10 gb's connection ? because anytime i see this type of setup , people are always connected directly on the graphics card via HDMI and if you do a 24 disk setup i dont think you want it right next to you,say you put the serveur in the garage and you want to play in your bedroom via a small pc with a 10 gbs connection , a video on this subjet will be so cool , thank for the video .
FWIW - I lost control of the mouse after changing the USB settings. I was panicking at first but was able to send the windows key shortcut, type power options, and use a combination of arrow, tab, and enter to restore the settings ... hope this helps anybody who has the same issue or perhaps you can add text to the video before somebody thinks they need to delete the VM and start over.
Hi, Avi glad you like the guide. I am putting a video together about my server the hardware and what I use it for. But I use a Xeon E5 2690v4 on an x99 motherboard (ASRock x99 ws) Memory I use ECC reg ddr4 4 sticks of 16 gigs each
Hi man, I followed your tutorial and everything was prefect, but I have a very basic and perhaps stupid question about the sound: Do I have to guess that to listen any sound the speakers should phisically connected with the Hardware on the Server ? I mean one cable from the mobo ( audio ) connected to the monitor/tv with speakers ? THX for your kind clarification
Great videos! Gone thru this video a few times, now taking some notes. When would the "Hyper-V" parameter used? only when you want to run another VM inside your VM? Why would that be enabled by default?
Great tutorial again! You are not working for unraid yet, hey Jon ... :) I know it is a classic question, but what do you think about doing a symlink for the windows "user" folder? I recently installed a game (steamlibrary was maped to an unraid share in my ssd for storing game data (high priority games), but the game installed not only to steamlibrary ... it also placed some files in the "users" folder. Maybe a symlink to this users´s game folder only would work? Great stuff buying a win10pro for 6 euro! Thx for the hint. Hope to watch your new video soon :)
Yes, you could do this. But you would want to enable linked connections in windows so any programmes that operate with elevated privileges would work. I have a new video series starting this Tuesday called 2-minute tips and the first one shows how to do that if you are not sure how. :)
Yes the cd drives are the mapped from the host in the template when we set up the vm. One is the win10 image the other the virt io iso. But you can mount any cd/dvd iso from there if you want.
Nice. As a beginner, trying to find some starter VM help, this is the one. I would like to setup Win 10 VMs for my family to use instead of their own OS on their laptops. Would I setup one Win VM and connect all to that, or would I need to create multiple VMs for each person?
Don’t suppose you can do a video fixing the VMs on unraid 6.9.0 beta 22 I’d imagine a lot of people would like to get there vms up and working after updating using vnc isn’t cutting it lol thanks for the handy vids 👍🏻
Thank you for this guide. Trying to replicate some of the steps on a arch vm and Im stuck with passing sound. Would you be able to point in the direction of any guide to pass sound for linux? Thank you again.
Nice. As a beginner, trying to find some starter VM help, this is the one. Where can I get more help on this topic? Such as do I create multiple VMs for each user or use one VM for all users, how to boot to the VMs I create
Hey Brad.The vm is the same as a real physical machine in this regard. Lets take windows 10 for example. You can setup multiple users on the os. You can do that on the vm on your server too. But yes you could set up as many vms as you want, one for each user so that would be like they have their own physical machine with their own programmes installed etc. To start the vms you do this from the unRAID web ui. There are other methods that you can use such as an app your your phone called controllr. Feel free to drop me a message (but i am not always the fastest to reply !!)
Great video ! and while I agree and also disable most of windows's data mining settings, do you have any proof they sell that information? When you look at it from microsofts point of view it makes a lot of sense to want as much information as possible to find issues and help guide them into figuring out what new features to develop. I agree they are logging too much, but are they honestly doing anything more/worse then google? Especially considering we are getting an OS for $20. edit: Oh small note: disabling windows search also disables the search option in Outlook. Might not sound like a big issues, but if you are using your pc for business you don't really have any alternatives to outlook :(
Hi, Rob. I'm glad you like the video. Regarding Microsoft selling the data, you can read on their website about that here privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement/ be sure to click the learn more under each section to see what they collect and what they do with the data. Microsoft's business plan is very different to what it was years ago when they just sold the OS. Remember most people using Windows 10 got a free upgrade from 7 or 8. Microsoft definitely wants people on Windows 10. They are even going to block windows updates for 7 and 8 on some computers running new chipsets blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/01/15/windows-10-embracing-silicon-innovation/#F8KcZCqmDzUVOeKX.97 I am not saying its right or wrong Microsoft collect data and use it in the ways they do. And yes google facebook etc all go the same. But they don't run the OS on my PC so I can choose. I expect my tablet and phone to constantly serve me ads and send tracking data. But I kind of think of my PC as my own private space. Yes thats a good point, I can see why disabling search would be a problem with Outlook. I didn't think of that
I wonder if you could tackle a prickly problem I've been having with trying? My unRAID setup is wicked thanks to you, but one task I am trying to automate is commercial removal via Plex dvr, my Windows Vm, and MCEbuddy
FYI, the download link to get the Win10 ISO from Microsoft doesn't seem to work when accessed from Windows 10. It filters existing windows users into using a tool to create an ISO. However, the following article shows how you can use Edge to trick the site into thinking you're on a different OS / Browser. I just spoofed an iPad and was able to download the ISO after reloading the site: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-windows_install-winpc/how-to-download-official-windows-10-iso-files/35cde7ec-5b6f-481c-a02d-dadf465df326?auth=1
Thank you for your great videos. For some reason my windows 10 VM i created and added the virtual sound card and not I see the volume slider but still no sound is hear on the remote desktop on noVNC that is included with unraid. I also tried the hardware passthrough option and for some reason audio will no be heard on the remote pc I am using. Thank you for your help and anyone that can help me.
Question: Can I use an attached nvme drive, with windows already installed on the same computer previously, as a vm? Background: i built the computer for unraid but wantrd to learn more before installing unraid. But wanted to use the pc for gaming while I learned from your videos. Now my computer is set up with unraid and the nvme is just sitting there in unassigned devices with a liscensed windows and all of my games installed on it.
I only see Single: cpu 0 Single: cpu 1 Single: cpu 2 Single: cpu 3 Without the CPU Thread Pairings... Anyone know what CPU I need to pick for windows 10 VM? I'm using an Intel® Xeon® E-2224 CPU @ 3.40GHz thanks!
I'm just curious how Linux Mint would look running a VM of Windows 10 Pro. Any body done this and get the same results of 4K gaming at 60fps, no sweat?
Hi André do you mean the desktop theme that i am using on windows. I use a programme called classic shell as I really don't like the default windows 10 style. www.classicshell.net/
Followed guide step by step, and everything is working, but after creating windowsdisk share, when I go into windows to map the network drive and browse, there are no servers listed. BTW, under network, I see other network devices, like Roku and our TV, and I even see the Plex server running on the same Unraid box. Any suggestions on how to get my unraid server to appear?
I was able to "solve" this issue by enabling SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support, but I don't know that this is ultimately the best long term solve as I believe SMB 1.0 was turned off by default by Microsoft over security concerns. If anyone reads this and knows of a better solution, please share! Thanks! And Spaceinvader One, thanks for the great tutorials! I donated some money to you a week or so ago after I got Mojave running as a VM. Cheers!
I'm looking for a way to take a current windows 10 install and move the drive it is on to an unassigned drive and run windows 10 from that drive to a VM without losing data or starting over
I just installed a fresh Unraid install on a server and this doesn't work. It keeps bringing me to the UEFI shell and I can't get any further. Maybe these instructions are out of date.
I cannot get the VM to start correctly, it immediately goes to recovery instead of starting the installer, or it throws an error with a bunch of shell information... if I try a docker container the install fails with errors about missing drivers... so either way I cannot get a windows install to work...
thanks a lot for all the amazing videos. Just one question: I set up a W 10 VM and everything works fine, except the internetdownloadspeed ( not the upstream! ) on my vm is very slow. Any help possible?
6 years later and this is still helpful
Unraid 6.9 is coming soon and would love to see a new windows 10 or 11 tutorial as a daily driver or a Gaming vm
with gpu passthrough . Can't wait
Agreed, many changes have happened since this video. Would love some tips and tricks from the master!
@@SnowBlind182 same!
Agreed. Its got to be hard to update so many tutorials he's made over the years, but any major changes in methods, an update would always be appreciated!
Would love to see an update for this either soon or when 6.10 rolls around
Would love to see an update to this for a windows 11 VM in 6.10
2023 here - your feature request was applied and now the VM creation automatically pairs the threads when you are selecting them. AWESOME!
One minor request, that you change your Unraid theme to "Light" during recording, as it can be difficult to see the screen shots; especially if you're flipping from your lighter screen Mac back to Unraid etc. Other than that, your tutorials have taught me a LOT!
I was having trouble around 12:30 into the video with getting my virtual disk to populate the assigned storage size. After loading the VirtIO viostor driver the drive would appear, but it would show "0 unallocated drive space".
After doing some digging I found the official unraid docs for setting up a Win10 VM. Their instructions were to load the following drivers in the following order:
1. Balloon
2. NetKVM
3. vioserial
4. viostor (be sure to load this one last)
For each driver that needs to be loaded, you will navigate to the driver folder, then the OS version, then the amd64 subfolder (never click to load the x86 folder)
After each driver is loaded, you will need to click the Browse button again to load the next driver.
This solved my issue- my drive finally appear with the allotted space I had assigned when creating the VM.
Spaceinvader One, your channel is seriously one of the best channels on UA-cam, keep the good stuff coming
I have only bought UNRAID a few weeks ago and I find your videos very useful. So far the only video that did not seem to work in the one for High Sierra where (like others) the VM seems to boot and then reboot after starting with the install. Cheers and THANK YOU!
Fantastic video! You have no idea how perfect the timing for this is, can't wait for the next one.
Thanks Josecitox :)
It's funny that I found you here xD
@@SpaceinvaderOneAny chance to do an updated video for more recent version of unRaid and maybe Windows 11?
They took your advice and the cores are linked now :)
What does that mean
important step for newbies like me. when you start your VNC you will have a shell screen. you will have to write exit to get to the next step.
Great to see ur CPU threading recommendation added in recent versions!!
Hey Space, I wanted to point out that if you go to the Dashboard under the System Status it gives you Load Statistics. In the Per CPU Load section it lists it as "cpu 0/16" or "cpu 0/4" Then has two bars to the right of it. If you are using a non HT cpu is just has listed it as "cpu 0" . It is already listing it as "cpu PhysicalCore/LogicalCore" method. All you have to do it go to the dashboard, you don't have to go to the System Devices.
In your feature request you might be able to adjust it to where the implement it as the Question Mark Cursor like they do other settings title, click on it and it creates a drop down of what you see in the System Devices. That way it is a fluent implemenetation across the entire system.
Hi, Cody. That's a good tip to goto the dashboard and look at the core HT list there. I had never thought of that. It certainly is quicker than navigating through tools etc. :)
Yes, the tool tip question mark would be a good idea as would keep template less cluttered and would still save us having to open a new tab to few the pairings.
Thank you so much. Finally, someone explained how to make a storage drive on the array. I am assuming it will be similar in Linux. That was one of the last hurtle for a media server.😊
Learning so much about Unraid, VM's etc... such brilliant video's...
Thanks Anis :)
Thank you so much for posting this. I read the docs 100 times. Never would have been successful without your guidance. Thank you again.
Your welcome. Im glad that it was helpful.
Looks like your CPU pairings request finally went through with Unraid 6.6.0-rc1!
Ed, as usual a great reference video. I'd installed before with no issues but for some reason this time it wasnt working. Tips from video needed: 440fx not Q35, single core ALSO needed (never needed that before) but otherwise working. You videos always have little nuggets in them. Thanks
Thank you tons for your UNRAID stuff. Saved me days of frustration.
As a noobie with unraid I can't thank you enough for all the great videos. They have helped me a lot. I am running a low power rig: an asrock j1900m with embedded celeron with 8 gigs of ram and 6 drives including a cache. I had not planned to use VM's, just basically use the machine as a media server. However the lure of using the VM feature was too much. So i Installed a win 10 VM and tried a couple of linux flavors, ubuntu and fedora. My win10 and ubuntu vm work pretty good using microsoft rdp to connect to both. I gave up on fedora because of terrible vnc lag. I really appreciate the tips for improving performance that you provided especially the one's relating to vnc. I run this NAS as a headless server so vnc is a must but lack of sound, cursor and keyboard lag have been the biggest issues. A Microsoft RDP connection from my hackintosh gives me a 1080p desktop with sound with win 10 even though the VM still uses the MS basic display driver. I tried to update to the red hat qxl driver but it will not install correctly. Win finds the driver and starts to install but than disconnects my connection and reboots and reverts to the old driver. Any idea how to fix that. If I use Splashtop to connect, the win vm only gives me an 800x600 display with no sound. I did edit the win vm xml file for the sound as you described in the video. Splashtop connected to ubuntu 16.04 does have sound but some cursor lag. Ubuntu with xrdp runs smooth but no sound. I would like to have a fedora vm but I could not get it to work well. Terrible cursor and keyboard lag. Any any chance that you may be considering an optimized fedora vm tutorial or a tutorial on setting up pulse audio with xrdp or some way to get sound and decent performance on a low end setup like mine with linux. Unfortunately Splashtop offers very limited support for linux.
You, sir, deserve a medal. Super helpful video. Thank you so much!
Thanks Harry 🙂
A great reveal in the end would be that the Mac he is working on is actually a Hackintosh on the same UnRaid box :-)
Hugely useful video.. Thank you for taking the time to put this together.
Your welcome, Rhys. I'm glad you found it useful :)
Thank you for all your tutorials! After completing this one, I now have a sound driver on my Windows 10 VM. The challenge is that I can see it working in the VM, but it does not pass though the sound to my PC?
I'm having this same issue. I will update if I figure it out.
EDIT: I'm so sorry, I honestly forgot to come back to update, but I believe I added:
to the XML config on the VM. I could be completely wrong. I'm so sorry. I've failed you.
Great video!!! I was bound but now am free. I have now purchase a key for Unraid after 3 years of Amahi re-installs, crashes, dead drives,, etc...I have watched 9 of your video's now and look forward to watching many more and following your exceptional tutorials. Thanks.
Hi, jamnwilli Your welcome! and thanks for watching :)
Thanks this was a HUGE help, great walk through! Appreciate all your videos
Thanks for the tips and demo, finally started setting up vm's on my unraid, this was really helpful. Have a great day
Just arrived on your channel, excellent tutorials, really informative, Thanks!
this video is high quality, very rich in informations, thankyou for this
Your welcome Procker. Thanks for watching :)
@@SpaceinvaderOne don't mention it
thank you for all the work you do its always nice knowing most concepts have already been covered by you or will be in the near future. keep up the great work
Thanks Patrick. Glad you like the videos. Keep watching plenty more coming 😀
Still the best tutorial out there. Thank you!
Another amazing video, really well done and clear, looking forward to the next part. Any chance you could do a vid on NextCloud or OwnCloud at some point.
Thanks, Awoody002. Part two will be up by the weekend. Yes, will do a nextcloud video :)
This idea would be awesome! Your style is so straightforward SpaceInvader that my 1st VM was up and running without issue FAST!. I'd love the same for my NextCloud :)
Hi Spaceinvader, I'm a beginner and I found your tutorials greats !! They are helping me to build up my unraid server. I have some brief questions for you: Can I create Vdisk on a NVme disk under unassigned disks in unraid ? If yes, then in the " primary VDisk location " I should chose the partition I created on the NVMe, correct ?
Thank you so much! I missed the "click any button to boot from dvd" and was so confused. I also would have never found the virtio driver
wow, there is so much I can learn, and the content is still 99% applicable in 2020!!!
This is freaking great! I have just ordered a Ryzen Threadripper 2920X and will allocate 4 of the 12 cores to a VM for my daughter to game on :)
Did it work out?
AWESOME Video, very informative and right to the point nothing watered down. I'll grab a beer for your next video Definitely enjoyed it more than anticipated. thank you
Great video Ed. Whilst many of us have Win10 already installed, tips like that VNC workaround make the video worth watching for everyone. Thanks! I guess this means the Win95 video is delayed, and also the "how to use the VPN of your Deluge VPN for other dockers" also? :-( Talk about keeping them hanging!!!
Hey, James, Thanks glad you picked up some ideas from the vid. Ha yeah, win 95 got delayed. I deleted the footage I had already done by mistake so I have to record it again so what was going to be an hour or two to finish now has turned into 10 hours :( I will definitely be doing it soon. There are some good things in it that are relevant outside of the windows 95 use case. Such as passing keyboard inputs from Linux input to a virtual serial to get a keyboard working in an os with no USB support.
And yes the VPN proxy, that is on the list for "soon !" This video I wanted to do a mainstream video, especially after this creator's Windows 10 seems to be a bit problematic. But after the second part of this video, i'll knock those other 2 out. :)
Good man... I had no idea W95 was that difficult.. The USB thing slipped my mind. I was worrying about the 2.0GHz speed limit on W95 that needs patching
Yeah, the patching of the 2.0-speed limit isn't difficult we just attach another floppy disk image with the patch on boot from that after install then patch the win95 vdisk. I found the main problem the keyboard and mouse. We could use vnc keyboard/mouse to do the install but vnc doesn't work to actually boot 95 we have to pass a GPU then we have no keyboard and mouse!! So we have to take the inputs from the keyboard then pass them to a virtual serial port.
Spaceinvader One and that is why I will wait for a video ;-)
Great video, please keep up with your excellent work.
Any Chance for one of your next videos you could do a VM with ChromeOS please.
Hi, Dazlb. I will see what I can do :)
Can I just tell you that your channel is fantastic! Thank you!
Thankyou Sam :)
Spaceinvader One. love your channel mate lotes of love here in Australia :) keep up the great video content.
Are you able to address the high cpu utilization of splashdesktop? seems splashtop streamer uses quite alot of cpu (im on 2 threads) using 35% ish when running remote on res 1024x768 . the gpu acceleration nugget was very informative and will be using splash from now on thanks :)
Hi, David. Hi there over in Australia! Glad you like the videos. It seems high CPU usage for 35% for me it sits much lower. But you say you are only using 2 threads (so one core). UA-camr Twoface227 showed me this remote software. It looks very promising www.nomachine.com/ I haven't fully tested it myself but you may want to give it a try
Checked it out. Products perform similar nothing too major. NX platform is interesting as a whole as reading online. but in most personal cases Splash seems to be the quick and easy to use option, where no machine has a larger feature set. ill stick with splash for my home use but always food for thought. thanks again.
absolutely loving your videos, your well spoken easy well explained lots of zoom in and you go the extra mile to explain all you can i am a new unraid user and your videos make me happy and motivated to try these things
Hi Adrian. Thanks for your comment. Glad you like the videos. And welcome to unRAID :)
The pairing is now shown in Unraid!!
Awesome video! Being 3 years old is it still all still current? I'm fixing to set this up for gaming, just wondering if theres been any changes in what's best to do.
Thanks so much for all the amazing content!
If anyone is crazy like I am and runs Insider Builds.
starting on Build 16226 if you are running a Headless server you absolutely have to put the virtual sound card in or you will get invalid attributes when you try to elevate to an admin.
Hi, great video. How relevant is this in 2023?
I just use parsec now and use vnc as a backup, great for zero latency. Wish there was a Linux equivalent.
Where is the Windows 11 version? Love these videos!
This may be just me not knowing, but I've just got a Win10 Pro Workstation VM to launch the installer. The thing is, I've had to tweek around a lot in order to figure out there were some settings that make this work for me that you glossed over. I had to set all of my I/O from IDE to SATA & set my vdisk to SATA as well. Otherwise, it would extremely slowly and wouldn't detect any vdisks when in the Win10 installer. I did have to set my BIOS type to Seabios in order for the installer to even come up, so there's that too.
I have also been having trouble with performance with my Windows 10 VM. Did you change all of the options from IDE to SATA including CD rom etc.?
@@justangvano I did
New to UNRaid and I Loooooove your videos, they cover just about anything i can think of. Waiting to test these out once i get a Rig. In the meantime can you perhaps tell me the specs of your Rig that has UNRaid? Thanks
Great video, it will help a lot. Question, can I access the VM from the same machine that unraid is installed on? I have a keyboard, mouse , video, and sound on my unraid box and want to access the VM from the same machine.
Fantastic video, i only have one question can you use symlinks with windows store applications and games?
I am just getting ready to boot up unraid for the first time so maybe I am getting a little ahead of myself, but I am wondering how you are connecting to the internet for this installation? My concern is with security. Your videos are excellent!!!
What a wonderful tutorial! Thank you!
Great , but can we do the same via a 10 gb's connection ? because anytime i see this type of setup , people are always connected directly on the graphics card via HDMI and if you do a 24 disk setup i dont think you want it right next to you,say you put the serveur in the garage and you want to play in your bedroom via a small pc with a 10 gbs connection , a video on this subjet will be so cool , thank for the video .
Great reference Tutorial. My compliments keep up the good work :-)
Your videos are always on point
Hi Joshua glad you like the videos and thanks for watching 😀
those are definitely some pre-energy crisis power settings :D
Any fixes for the virtual soundcard in 2023? Seems to be broken currently and no known fixes I could find.
very good explanation, thank you
FWIW - I lost control of the mouse after changing the USB settings. I was panicking at first but was able to send the windows key shortcut, type power options, and use a combination of arrow, tab, and enter to restore the settings ... hope this helps anybody who has the same issue or perhaps you can add text to the video before somebody thinks they need to delete the VM and start over.
Thanks to Spaceinvader One my Unraid Server and VM's run like a Champ, I can wait to see next weeks video!
Glad to hear they are working, Eric. Yeah the second part will be out this weekend, so as they say 'stay tuned' 😀
A great guide.
You can share us (including links), which board and processor of course also the memory you use on your server?
Hi, Avi glad you like the guide. I am putting a video together about my server the hardware and what I use it for. But I use a Xeon E5 2690v4 on an x99 motherboard (ASRock x99 ws) Memory I use ECC reg ddr4 4 sticks of 16 gigs each
Such a good video! Thank you!!
Hi man, I followed your tutorial and everything was prefect, but I have a very basic and perhaps stupid question about the sound: Do I have to guess that to listen any sound the speakers should phisically connected with the Hardware on the Server ? I mean one cable from the mobo ( audio ) connected to the monitor/tv with speakers ?
THX for your kind clarification
great guide! "awesome prgramme" where do you get it from?
Great videos! Gone thru this video a few times, now taking some notes. When would the "Hyper-V" parameter used? only when you want to run another VM inside your VM? Why would that be enabled by default?
Great tutorial again! You are not working for unraid yet, hey Jon ... :)
I know it is a classic question, but what do you think about doing a symlink for the windows "user" folder? I recently installed a game (steamlibrary was maped to an unraid share in my ssd for storing game data (high priority games), but the game installed not only to steamlibrary ... it also placed some files in the "users" folder. Maybe a symlink to this users´s game folder only would work?
Great stuff buying a win10pro for 6 euro! Thx for the hint.
Hope to watch your new video soon :)
Yes, you could do this. But you would want to enable linked connections in windows so any programmes that operate with elevated privileges would work. I have a new video series starting this Tuesday called 2-minute tips and the first one shows how to do that if you are not sure how. :)
Great! Will wait till Tuesday. Good luck with your new 2-minutes tips video series!
Thanks likiliki
Just paste it in :P
Another awesome vid thanks mate
Very helpful thanks so much! Are those CD Drives mapped drives (or CD Drives) from the host machine?
Yes the cd drives are the mapped from the host in the template when we set up the vm. One is the win10 image the other the virt io iso. But you can mount any cd/dvd iso from there if you want.
Nice. As a beginner, trying to find some starter VM help, this is the one.
I would like to setup Win 10 VMs for my family to use instead of their own OS on their laptops. Would I setup one Win VM and connect all to that, or would I need to create multiple VMs for each person?
Very useful. Thank you!
Frick yea man, thank you so much for the help :D
you only need the vm for very intrusive anti-cheats but the rest should work on proton orwine with dxvk and vkd3d
Don’t suppose you can do a video fixing the VMs on unraid 6.9.0 beta 22 I’d imagine a lot of people would like to get there vms up and working after updating using vnc isn’t cutting it lol thanks for the handy vids 👍🏻
It's important to note that Ryzen actually pairs its SMT threads in directly adjacent pairs, so the pairs are 0 & 1, 2 & 3, 4 & 5, etc.
Damn! that was my problem for the longest time... Win10 was not installing, and it was the 1 core issue
I will watch this with a nice cuppa tea :)
Ha, I'm reading your comment drinking a cup of tea!
Superb video!
Thank you for this guide. Trying to replicate some of the steps on a arch vm and Im stuck with passing sound. Would you be able to point in the direction of any guide to pass sound for linux? Thank you again.
Nice. As a beginner, trying to find some starter VM help, this is the one.
Where can I get more help on this topic? Such as do I create multiple VMs for each user or use one VM for all users, how to boot to the VMs I create
Hey Brad.The vm is the same as a real physical machine in this regard. Lets take windows 10 for example. You can setup multiple users on the os. You can do that on the vm on your server too. But yes you could set up as many vms as you want, one for each user so that would be like they have their own physical machine with their own programmes installed etc. To start the vms you do this from the unRAID web ui. There are other methods that you can use such as an app your your phone called controllr. Feel free to drop me a message (but i am not always the fastest to reply !!)
so informative thank you
Great video ! and while I agree and also disable most of windows's data mining settings, do you have any proof they sell that information? When you look at it from microsofts point of view it makes a lot of sense to want as much information as possible to find issues and help guide them into figuring out what new features to develop.
I agree they are logging too much, but are they honestly doing anything more/worse then google? Especially considering we are getting an OS for $20.
edit: Oh small note: disabling windows search also disables the search option in Outlook. Might not sound like a big issues, but if you are using your pc for business you don't really have any alternatives to outlook :(
Hi, Rob. I'm glad you like the video. Regarding Microsoft selling the data, you can read on their website about that here privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement/ be sure to click the learn more under each section to see what they collect and what they do with the data.
Microsoft's business plan is very different to what it was years ago when they just sold the OS. Remember most people using Windows 10 got a free upgrade from 7 or 8. Microsoft definitely wants people on Windows 10. They are even going to block windows updates for 7 and 8 on some computers running new chipsets blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/01/15/windows-10-embracing-silicon-innovation/#F8KcZCqmDzUVOeKX.97
I am not saying its right or wrong Microsoft collect data and use it in the ways they do. And yes google facebook etc all go the same. But they don't run the OS on my PC so I can choose. I expect my tablet and phone to constantly serve me ads and send tracking data. But I kind of think of my PC as my own private space.
Yes thats a good point, I can see why disabling search would be a problem with Outlook. I didn't think of that
Excellent. Thanks.
I wonder if you could tackle a prickly problem I've been having with trying? My unRAID setup is wicked thanks to you, but one task I am trying to automate is commercial removal via Plex dvr, my Windows Vm, and MCEbuddy
Hi David. That would be something I would like to look into in a future video. But not for a few weeks as the next few videos are already planned :)
FYI, the download link to get the Win10 ISO from Microsoft doesn't seem to work when accessed from Windows 10. It filters existing windows users into using a tool to create an ISO. However, the following article shows how you can use Edge to trick the site into thinking you're on a different OS / Browser. I just spoofed an iPad and was able to download the ISO after reloading the site:
answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-windows_install-winpc/how-to-download-official-windows-10-iso-files/35cde7ec-5b6f-481c-a02d-dadf465df326?auth=1
Thank you for your great videos. For some reason my windows 10 VM i created and added the virtual sound card and not I see the volume slider but still no sound is hear on the remote desktop on noVNC that is included with unraid. I also tried the hardware passthrough option and for some reason audio will no be heard on the remote pc I am using. Thank you for your help and anyone that can help me.
Question: Can I use an attached nvme drive, with windows already installed on the same computer previously, as a vm?
Background: i built the computer for unraid but wantrd to learn more before installing unraid. But wanted to use the pc for gaming while I learned from your videos. Now my computer is set up with unraid and the nvme is just sitting there in unassigned devices with a liscensed windows and all of my games installed on it.
I only see
Single: cpu 0
Single: cpu 1
Single: cpu 2
Single: cpu 3
Without the CPU Thread Pairings...
Anyone know what CPU I need to pick for windows 10 VM?
I'm using an Intel® Xeon® E-2224 CPU @ 3.40GHz
thanks!
I'm just curious how Linux Mint would look running a VM of Windows 10 Pro. Any body done this and get the same results of 4K gaming at 60fps, no sweat?
Thank you! Helps us noobs alot!
How did u get the layout for win10? Keep up the good teaching :)
Hi André do you mean the desktop theme that i am using on windows. I use a programme called classic shell as I really don't like the default windows 10 style. www.classicshell.net/
Thanks a lot:) I watching your videos over and over again... Building a unraid server and your guid is BEST :)
Followed guide step by step, and everything is working, but after creating windowsdisk share, when I go into windows to map the network drive and browse, there are no servers listed. BTW, under network, I see other network devices, like Roku and our TV, and I even see the Plex server running on the same Unraid box. Any suggestions on how to get my unraid server to appear?
I was able to "solve" this issue by enabling SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support, but I don't know that this is ultimately the best long term solve as I believe SMB 1.0 was turned off by default by Microsoft over security concerns. If anyone reads this and knows of a better solution, please share! Thanks! And Spaceinvader One, thanks for the great tutorials! I donated some money to you a week or so ago after I got Mojave running as a VM. Cheers!
I'm looking for a way to take a current windows 10 install and move the drive it is on to an unassigned drive and run windows 10 from that drive to a VM without losing data or starting over
I just installed a fresh Unraid install on a server and this doesn't work. It keeps bringing me to the UEFI shell and I can't get any further. Maybe these instructions are out of date.
For NT 6.3 or 6.2 I had to use the Windows 7 driver.
I cannot get the VM to start correctly, it immediately goes to recovery instead of starting the installer, or it throws an error with a bunch of shell information... if I try a docker container the install fails with errors about missing drivers... so either way I cannot get a windows install to work...
thanks a lot for all the amazing videos. Just one question: I set up a W 10 VM and everything works fine, except the internetdownloadspeed ( not the upstream! ) on my vm is very slow. Any help possible?