This is my first post, I’ve searched the forums trying to find a solution for my issue with none found.
I’ve recently upgraded to ElectricEel via the web GUI and added two additional drives to my zvol using the new features - that worked great.
My issue is I cannot seem to get my VM (Win 11 pro) to recognize my Quadro 600 correctly. I want to use it for PLEX transcoding. It states the driver is installed but showing Error 43 (which I know is quite common). There seem to be some resolutions for ealier versions of Scale but nothing for Eel from what I can tell.
I had attempted to remove the passthru and reinitialized it, reinstalled the driver and same issue. Has anyone else ran into this? Did you end up resolving it? Should I simply try another nVidia card?
My apoligies if there is already a post regarding this, I haven’t found it. Thank you in advance for your help.
Great question - I should have stated that in my original post.
Under System > Advanced Settings > Isolated GU Devices > I have Isolated the GPU.
In my PLEX VM, I click Edit and scroll to the bottom and have chosen the Quadro 600 in the list (its the only option there). After that, it adds itself to the devices list.
0000:0a:00.0 ‘VGA compatible controller’: GF108GL [Quadro 600] by ‘NVIDIA Corporation’
VM boots to Windows - everything seems to work great except I cannot do anything with the card because of its error.
Sorry, I’ve never experienced that and not passing through any pcie to my VMs at the moment. I won’t be able to help. Silly question : do you use your Windows VM only for Plex? Why not simply use the app and allow it to use the GPU? You don’t need to isolate it in that case and use, though.
Not a silly question at all. Though its currently only for PLEX, I use Windows VMs as I tend to use them more for other things eventually. I am not familiar with other OSs like Linux, and I feel the PLEX app might not offer exactly what I want out of it.
And no worries - I believe I have things correctly configured, perhaps my card isn’t compatible. I might have an old 710 I can pop in to test later.
Thank you very much for your replies Happy New Year!
Instead of adding it as a gpu, have you instead tried adding it as a pcie device? I remember most gpus have two componants detected, the gpu & an audio device; you’ll have to add both ‘pcie devices’ of the gpu or the VM won’t recognize it properly.
I’m not sure why you wouldn’t want the Plex app as a standalone & a windows vm as a standalone, but fair enough. It would reduce overhead, you can still keep the VM for other tasks, and you wouldn’t need to punish yourself by trusting windows to host something 24/7
I double checked and looks like I have both PCI Passthrough Devices applied (gpu + audio). I’ll play with it a bit more and see if removing it and re-adding it can resolve it but I think I tried it already.
As for moving away from a Widows OS handling Plex, I likely will eventually. This is the last part of this little project of mine I wanted to resolve (it irritates me that the GPU is there, unusable).
I appreciate your suggestion and will update if anything changes! Happy New Years!
Hey @Fracture87 did you ever figure this out? I’m experiencing the same issue and have not yet been able to resolve it. I’ve tried using DDU to reinstall drivers, and most of the other suggested steps that I could find when searching TrueNAS, Error 43, VM, etc. I am trying to get passthrough to work on Windows 10 or 11, and thus far have not been able to get either to work. I was just using this GPU in another computer, so I know it works, and I was even able to get the GPU passed through to a Linux Mint VM.
@holdenfershee Are you using the same GPU? The OP’s issue with trying to get the App working and needing a VM is related to the Quadro 600 not being supported under NVIDIA’s current driver (GF108 is the Fermi chipset, which is considered legacy at this point)
NVIDIA Error 43 in VMs is usually related to the old driver’s “I don’t want your consumer card to work in a VM” detection, but that should have been removed as of NVIDIA driver 465.xx or later.
Unfortunately I have not resolved the issue. It makes sense that my card/driver support is no longer, but I would have hoped there could be some kind of fix - at least for short term. I had tried a 1050ti as well, no luck. Which card are you using?
Still no good news, unfortunately. Could not get this to work with newer or older drivers. I’ve tried reinstalling and using Windows Server. Still nothing. I have a 2070 Super.
Happy New Year!