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Catalina Mojave and HighSierra - new video 28 october 2019 MOJAVE 10.14 . (Update 24 October 2018) _______________________________________________________________________________________ OLDER VIDEOS ABOUT MacOS VMs _______________________________________________________________________________________ High Sierra 10.13 (Update 24 September 2017) So now High Sierra is here its time for a new video. Things are a lot better for OSX VMs now. Since qemu 2.9 we don't need to use a patched clover. We can pass through the CPU frequency to the guest from the XML. This video although for High Sierra will also work for Sierra HOW TO INSTALL HIGH SIERRA OR SIERRA ON UNRAID CREATING INSTALL MEDIA (Update 24 September 2017) Video guide here >>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFPiK1Ggbks INCREASING PERFORMANCE IN AN OSX VM . (march 2018) Advanced techniques for hardware passthrough etc. (Update March 2017) This video is about advanced OSX VM techniques in KVM with unRAID. You will see how to pass through physical devices to a KVM osx sierra VM such as GPU, sound and USB. You will learn to what hardware that you can use and how to edit the XML template to add the hardware. You will learn how to use a Nvidia GPU in Sierra by installing the Nvidia web drivers. You will see how to get your HDMI sound working using an HDMI audio kext. I will quickly run through using virt-manager to avoid manual edits then discuss common osx VM problems. Note if using High Sierra as of 24 September 2017 Nvidia have not released web drivers for this OS so we cant have them working in 10.13 (but soon we should) Advanced OSX VM techniques in unRAID. Get everything working!

I've been recommending these cages for users wanting to build a server. They eliminate the most common problem users have, and that is knocking cables loose while adding or exchanging drives. Over time, the ability to painlessly swap in and out drives, and even swap problematic drives between ports to isolate problems, is priceless. Consider this all to common scenario. You want to replace a drive (maybe it is failing, or maybe just want to upsize it). You open the case and swap out the old and swap in the new. In the process, you can't help but touch a few cables with the back of your hand. No harm done. You put the server back together. Boot up. Everything looks good. You start the drive rebuild. 2 hours later you check on progress. The array is offline. A different disk in your array is showing a red + (it has dropped offline). Looking in the logs you see that it was getting link resets and ultimately the drive dropped offline. One of those cables you thought you harmlessly touched - it wasn't harmless. Even the slightest skewing of a cable can create an intermittent connection. You now have a more complicated recovery to do, and if you make a mistake, could easily lose data. Hot-swap cages are not the cure - they are the vaccine. Once you have them and they are burned in, this should never happen to you. These are a pretty good deal. $67 delivered. And you can make an offer (looking at purchase history looks like seller has been accepting most offers). http://www.ebay.com/itm/SUPERMICRO-CSE-M35T-1B-5-x-3-5-Hot-Swap-SATA-Hard-Drive-Enclosure-/172642519582?hash=item28324bca1e:g:c7oAAOSwXj5XGSS3 Seller has 100% positive feedback. These particular cages are highly recommended by me. I have a bunch of them and they work flawlessly. They have 92mm fans that cool quite well. and these can be swapped for quieter fans if needed. Three of these together with an Antec 900 or similar case, gives you an excellent 15 drive case for an unRAID server.

Size of the array doesn't really matter. You will find fans of any given brand of drive, and just as many who think a given brand is junk. Some of the people here consider their Unraid setup from best-in-class perspective and use only "enterprise" hard drives. I think many are like me and buy good deals, whatever the brand. In the end, I treat all drives exactly the same. I run pre-clear a minimum of 3 times before I put it in my array; I always have a spare drive that has already been pre-cleared sitting on the shelf and I run 2 parity drives. That gives me peace of mind (generally speaking) and, in theory, enough time to recover from a failed drive. Perhaps I've been lucky, but I've only had to make use of my spare drive once in the last 8 years. Whip

Install CA Cfg Editor. Load /mnt/user/Pool/zenstates.py switch the Line endings from CRLF to LF (bottom left). Or, re-edit the file using Notepad++ (not Notepad) and do the same thing under Edit, EOL Conversion

Thanks for the info. I looked back through the releases and lbzip2 was included in 6.6.0. I have removed it from the 6.6 repo

Do you have python installed? And did you make zenstates.py executable? ( chmod +x /mnt/user/Pool/zenstates.py )

Another way to handle this is to install the "Libvirt Hotplug USB" plugin and manage the USB device for the VM once it is started.

On ebay you need to be careful about fakes from China, either by a new one at regular price or if you want to same some money buy an used server pull, those are usually trustworthy if buying from a reputable vendor, I bough all of mine used and never had issues.

Assuming MariaDB is already up and running, bash into the docker container (or select console on the mariadb docker context window). In the console enter the following command, if there's no password set on mariadb, press enter on password prompt. mysql -u root -p Once logged in run the following commands, modifying password and username fields as you require. CREATE USER 'monicaUser' IDENTIFIED by 'monicaPassword'; CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS monicahq CHARACTER SET = utf8mb4 COLLATE = utf8mb4_general_ci; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON monicahq.* TO 'monicaUser' IDENTIFIED BY 'monicaPassword'; Note the created values, these will need to be added to the database connection details in the .env file I've also set up the collation (in the statement above) to allow for emoji data to be stored, we turn this setting on in Monica in the docker .env file by setting emoji usage to true # Use utf8mb4 database charset format to support emoji characters # ⚠ be sure your DBMS supports utf8mb4 format DB_USE_UTF8MB4=true

Any LSI with a SAS2008/2308/3008 chipset in IT mode, e.g., 9201-8i, 9211-8i, 9207-8i, 9300-8i, etc and clones, like the Dell H200/H310 and IBM M1015, these latter ones need to be crossflashed. SAS controllers can use SATA devices, and if you buy say an eight port controller now and need more ports in the future you can also use a SAS expander, that unlike SATA ports multipliers are reliable.

That is what it is. But it also has a CF update built into it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

@Ruthalas After looking further into this package I got interested and wanted it working too haha. One method I knew would work was to add all variables to the docker template... no thanks 😛 Though some google-fu and trial and error, I eventually worked out how to pass the .env file and got monica running. If you manually create the monicahq folder in appdata directory and add the .env file there, you can point to it in the Extra Parameters section of the docker template (advanced setting enabled) with this: --env-file=/mnt/user/appdata/monicahq/.env Other than adding port and the appdata path (probably needed later on) this is all that is needed to get the service going, but be warned it may need some further tweaking. I've also setup monica's db in mariadb, if anyone is interested in how to set that up I'm happy to share.

Hello, Nice work on steamcachebundle, makes LAN parties a breeze. Would it be possible to add Xbox download cache to the docker as well?

I am currently using four, just found out about newgroup ninja, I also use Giganews but may drop them soon as they are expensive, tweaknews and usenetserver.com. For Tweaknews I buy blocks when needed, they have been great for older hard to get stuff.

Haven't checked in a couple of years. The list I used originally showed them as using different backbones (the whole reason for having multiples).

They are European based so less stringent with DMCA, but you've been very lucky to survive with one provider - you're probably getting new releases meaning you're getting content before it's removed

you can run any of my vpn docker images at the same time, the only trick to keep in mind is that you must watch out for port conflicts, privoxy uses the same port for all of the vpn images, and thus you will get a conflict on port 8118 on the host side, so ensure this port is changed on the host side to prevent this.

A few advantages of this type of solution: 1 - You can grow it over time. Buying just one of the M35Ts will provide 5 hot swap ports. That will keep many users happy for a while, and then you can add a second and later a third ... Norco is a bigger initial purchase. Many users have an old tower leftover and can set up a small array with hot-swap for only about $70. And can incrementally grow it over time without losing their investment in hotswap cages. Once you start a project like that, buying a Norco and scrapping the existing investment can be more expensive. It is nice to have a low cost of entry, and then be able to spend incrementally to grow as needed, even if ultimately you will have spent more. 2 - This case takes up very little floor space. I personally am not interested in having a computer rack in my house, and would much prefer the small footprint of a tower case. And even if I was ok having one, the WAF is very low! 3 - These work better than the Norco's, which many users report as having quality issues. The Norco's also don't cool particularly well (I bought a Norco 5in3 that I assume is the same design and didn't like it at all. Luckily I found a forum member and traded it for his SuperMicro). The supermicro drive cages leave the entire top and bottom of the drives open for complete airflow - and the cages are made of aluminum. They are an excellent design. 4 - The hot-swap units can be moved between cases, and even used to create drive towers that can sit external to a case and provide storage. Norco's have no such flexibility. 5 - Removing all of the drives from a tower case leaves a relatively light shell that can be moved, lifted to a workbench, whatever to troubleshoot or enhance. I don't own one, but my sense is the Norco would be considerably heavier and more unwieldy. Especially lifting off the floor! I prefer to be able to work on my server without needing another pair of hands. My newest case is on wheels, and it was easy to move the hot-swaps into it. Being on wheels makes it particularly easy to move around even with a lot of drives installed. To each his own, but these are the reasons I think the tower option is better, at least for some of us.