For the Linux users who don't like using unRAID's browser-based VNC client to connect to their VM's, you may have tried using Remminawith less than stellar results. When I first tried out Remmina with unRAID, I was met with an immediate and abrupt window closure. I tried again thinking this may be a glitch, but sadly saw the same behavior. Some quick Googling didn't unveil a fix so I tabled th ...
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unRAID, Windows & the Invisible Mouse Cursor
If you've ever setup a Windows VM in unRAID, you've probably noticed that the mouse cursor is almost invisible in unRAID's noVNC window. Installing the virtio video driver helps some, but it's still very difficult to locate.
I've tried a few solutions to enhance the visibility of the mouse cursor, but the best and simplest trick I've found is to invert the curs ...
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unRAID Automatic USB Hotplugging (Libvirt)
A long time ago, I figured out how to have an unRAID server detect a hotplugged USB device and automatically associate this device with a VM. I wasn't ever planning on revisiting this issue as unRAID was supposed to implement this as a feature in a future release. Well, after several years and numerous unRAID upgrades, not only am I still waiting for this feature, but the solution I was using ...
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unRAID NVIDIA GPU Passthrough Fix (QEMU)
I tried out unRAID last year as an alternative to VMWare vSphere because getting non-server hardware to work with vSphere is getting more difficult with each release. Now I know that unRAID's bread and butter is functioning as a NAS, but in recent releases they've added a ton of features, one of them being VM hosting support via QEMU. One of the surprising features that led me to eventually pu ...