jangjong

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=9572.msg94243#msg94243 I use this. It's 5 beta2, but easily upgradable to the latest rc

This is awesome. Just what we needed.

Well.. since I wanted to post up something like this too.. I will post it here. I don't know how many people know, but back in 01, someone created this unraid image for VirtualBox (http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=9572.msg94243#msg94243) I took unRaid 5 beta2 image from that thread and converted to vmdk file. The VirtualBox image was just a hdd image anyway. Create a VM in esxi, add this as the main hdd, and you will be able to boot up the machine. This will be like booting to unraid without any hdd. but again, this is unraaid 5 beta 2, so probably needs to be updated. To update this to the latest unraid, boot up the machine, go to \\tower\flash\ then replace the two file that needs to be replaced here's the file https://mega.co.nz/#!M58ljS6A!TkHakWeygkZNqTi1WwfKo0gMAdsDK2NRcAchg1vndNo

update.. the problem may not be passing through the video card.. i am not able to passthrough USB devices, which means no keyboard or mouse (dedicated input device for the vm) Looks like it's a bug in 5.1.. because i see that some people were able to do it in 5.0u1, but not able to in 5.1. maybe you should install 5.0u1 instead to get it to work. there's a thread about this issue here: http://communities.vmware.com/message/2183426#2183426 Hopefully.. they will have a fix for this...

I'm planning on doing something similar.. (a xbmc vm that uses the video card) Have HD 5450 card right now, so i ordered ATI Rage so that can be the main video output for console and 5450 can be hw passthrough. I should be getting it tomorrow so I will let you know how this works out.

I see that you saw this post: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=22675.0 Not sure if you read them though. The whole thread is about how having more than 4GB of ram in unraid is causing some problems with transfering. Some people think it's specific to MB's ( I don't ), some people just think it's because of the limitation of 32 bit software. ANYWAY, for people to help you, they need more than what you said here. saying something's not working isnt enough. Please attach your syslog and spec of your machine

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=25052.0 I'm just gonna slide this in right here.

I don't know what you mean by they're showing on Raid. but you have to add those virtual disk as an IDE drive, not SCSI. I don't know if unraid supports SCSI. Does it? The screen shot is from "Advanced Options" when you're adding a new virutal hdd

I was just commenting because of this guy that wanted to use unraid without the usb: I'm fine with two USB lol One Question though. You decided to go with CIFS (SMB). Any reason for that? Maybe this could be a question for someone else.. I am using CIFS as well.. but I do see NFS option in unraid. What do people use in this case? and why? I just don't have a good experience with NFS and maybe I'm doing something wrong.

Man.. I was afraid this would be the answer. Would I be better off going with this then? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131841 And probably going with Celeron G1610 since it's only $35 over at microcenter Edit: or this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116407 Hm.....

I am planning to build a small NAS for a friend and came across these two boards. My friend wants NAS to consume the least amount of electricity and it has to be small (thinking PC-Q25B). I am leaning towards C60M1-I because it uses less energy (9W vs 18W), fanless, 6 sata, and price. E350M1/USB3 looks good too though because better CPU and USB 3.0.. My question is.. is C60M1-I powerful enough for sabnzbd & sickbeard? I am not planning on doing any sort of transcoding.. I just need to get those two running. Do I need to go with E350 to get that to work? What do you guys recommend?

right. esxi without usb is possible. however, licensed version of unraid without usb is not possible, or at least that was my understanding since your license is tied to your usb.

You can choose SMB to be hidden for disks as well. Select the disk from the main page and you will see the same option

That's what i have. Two USB drives. The usb drive is necessary because unraid license is tied to the USB drive. You can use the free version without the usb.

This is what you need http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=11449.0

FYI. It enables IOAPIC. Reference page 4 of this PDF manual on ESXi. Ah! That's what it does. Thanks!

so, i did more testing with the sata card i recommended. idk if you already had set the pass through for MV8, but the monoprice sata cards need similar hack. meaning.. you need this line for the sata card; pciPassthru#.msiEnabled = "FALSE" where # is the pciPassthru number for the sata card. i was able to pass thru the card without above line, but whenever i try to preclear my test drive, it would give PSOD (Purple Screen of Death). but after adding that line, i was able to preclear my drives without any problem. I am not an esxi expert.. so i have no idea what that line does.. lol

Forgot to mention this.. If you want it to install automatically on boot, you need to put it in /boot/extra/ /boot/packages/ is only used for plg files usually.

They're interchangeable. so 'installpkg lame-3.99.5-i686-1cf.txz' will work. I am not too sure what the difference is between the two. I know that is txz has better compression rate than tgz.. and txz is 'newer' pkgs and tgz is 'orginial' pkgs for slackwares.

You can just use this pkg: http://www.slackers.it/repository/lame/pkg/lame-3.99.5-i686-1cf.txz A quick and dirty way of doing this is.. you should have lame-3.98.2-i486-1sl.txz (Maybe it has a differnt file name) in the package folder. You can rename the new lame-3.99.5-i686-1cf.txz to that file name so airplay thinks that you already have the package and install this new version

I see. I just switched over to esxi set up and wasn't sure what would be practical and what makes sense. This is something to think about. btw yes. you are right that it basically creates a virtual switch (vSwitch, they call it).

That's a very good point.

Separate VM specifically for pre clearing isnt a bad idea.... maybe i should do this lol Anyway, I have two of these: http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10407&cs_id=1040702&p_id=2530 I tested yesterday that I am able to pass through these cards to my unraid machine without any special hacks like MV8 needs.. but didn't try anything else. Just tested to see if i could pass through them and i was able to.. ------------------ Side note: Do you think it's really good idea to have another vm to run sabnzbd and transmission? I was thinking that couchpotato and sickbeard can probably be moved to another vm.. however, dont you think leaving sabnzbd and transmission in unraid is a good idea since you don't have to copy over what you are downloading through network and maybe better performance from downloading to the file server directly? idk. just a thought lol this is why i havent moved them away from my unraid vm yet

No, it is not specific to supermicro board. I had a different board (ECS) before, and it had a problem but yes, you should use default. you should only use 4gb when you see a problem. If you see a very slow write speed (under 5 mb/s), you should try 4GB

wow. kinda childish play in my opinion. from that post, all i got is "i made something better than unraid! use mine! stop using unraid! unraid sucks!" i don't really care if he thinks his product is better than the whole world. im happy with what i'm using.