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I'm running 7 beta 2, so I don't know if this is a new issue. I'm trying to add a couple of command-line arguments to QEMU for a particular VM in the text box in the VM edit UI: After updating/saving and then coming back to edit, the arguments are gone, like this: If I display the inline XML (new feature), there's no XML displayed for this section - and going full XML view I can't find where these arguments should be inserted. Can anyone validate this with Unraid 6.x?

Has anyone had experience with a VM that won't allow shutting down from within the VM nor from Unraid's UI? Any attempt at shut down just spins it back up again a second later. I can't say when this started happening, nor whether it happened with Unraid 6.XX or whether it only started with 7.x This happened with a MacOS VM which was bothersome because it needed to be up and down frequently on a schedule. At the moment I'm only running Home Assistant where this happens and it isn't a big problem as HA is supposed to run 24/7. It's still something I'd like to get to the bottom of. I haven't seen this happen with some other VMs like straight Debian, pfSense (freeBSD), Fedora Server.

The price of formatting a USB thumb drive and some searching and testing is all you need The beauty is there's little to nothing to set up from a software or hardware perspective if you just want to boot and check the identified hardware and install some drivers.

That's because of poor design, as TN definitely doesn't offer anything you'll miss in Unraid.

https://github.com/ZoeyVid/NPMplus#list-of-new-features You can migrate. That's what I did when I ran it early this year. Last week on a new install I just started directly with NPMPlus. Shouldn't need to lose any settings. See here: https://github.com/ZoeyVid/NPMplus#migration

Because NPM is definitely broken - butI didn't the the same number of issues I've seen other people complain about. NPMPLUS is more regularly maintained and active, has a lot of new features and fixes.

NPM can apply TLS to any URL. First look at how the URL is originally accessed. If it's accessed by HTTP, then in NPM you set HTTP as target along with the correct IP and port for the page/service. Assign it a certificate - that you've already provisioned - and turn on the option to force TLS/HTTPS. That's the basic amount of work you need to do for most pages. Making sure of course that you're using a FQDN and that your cert includes that name or a wildcard on the base domain (domain.tld). Some pages need more options, like websockets, header manipulation, etc. Some need additional configuration in their own settings, so keep that in mind. Some services actively block reverse proxies. The last piece of the puzzle is that you absolutely need DNS to resolve your URL - if it's an internal site, you should have internal DNS server or at least a forwarder or resolver with overrides. Unbound, DNSmasq, PiHole, AdGuard Home, others, or combination. Also, I STRONGLY recommend using NPMPlus (available in Community Apps) rather than the original NPM. For Home Assistant for example, this is all that's needed in NPM - BUT, you have to make changes in Home Assistant to allow the reverse proxy.

I don't know what you're doing with the domain, nor whether you've exposed Unraid itself to the internet (insanely bad idea), but foreign IPs knocking at your door 24/7 is normal for every internet connection. I've got dozens of connection attempts coming in every minute of every day. All blocked by my firewall of course - which in this respect is what even a $10 consumer router does. Set up a firewall/router like pfSense. Set up Netbird or Tailscale for VPN mesh and use a reverse proxy like NGINX Proxy Manager or Traefik to give everything (you want) on your LAN their own FQDN and TLS connectivity. Keep the firewall blocking all external traffic.

If you feel like doing a lot of hacking, you can likely get a 1U Apple X-Serve case pretty cheaply. But like I said, hacking. You'll have to redo everything inside it to fit your own board.

Very nice, this is going to be a huge time-saver for anyone using Traefik with Unraid's default Docker apps.

I'm pretty sure that topology really only affects how you establish the tunnels, as you'll still need the software stack, openVPN in this case, running at each location. The difference is then that each location is a "client" rather than a "server" - which does make more sense. The hardware/software requirements are going to remain the same. I've been thinking (a bit) about rolling this out for testing myself, as I'd like to deploy something similar for clients who don't have the capability, or desire, to run/manage their own systems. Still in the stage of considering logistics and potential for headaches on my end before looking at the specifics.

You can probably do this with most any self-hosted NVR (not DVR) software. Frigate (getting really nice this year), Scrypted NVR, Shinobi, Blue Iris, etc. A hundred cameras, each one in a different country? Yeah. Others have mentioned some particulars. The NVR pulls the video from a URL. The cameras don't connect out to an NVR. So you need VPN sever running where the cameras are, not where the NVR is. So something along the lines of... At each location you set up a firewall/router with Wireguard (or your favorite VPN of choice), whatever switching you need, VLAN, etc. and the camera(s). At your NVR location you'll connect to all the VPN instances to pull the camera(s) video over RTMP, RTSP, RTC, etc. (dependent on your cams and NVR sw) You can even put something in the middle (at either location or a different location) to massage and rebroadcast the streams as needed. For instance if cams have limited stream support and you need something different. go2rtc for example or even Scrypted (non-NVR) can do this very efficiently.

Your shortened URL is crap-full of trackers. Post the direct AliExpress link so someone can check out the chipset on that product. However, another potential solution (which will require some creative mounting depending on your case) is to use an M.2 to PCIe adapter and then connect a nice affordable Mellanox card to it, which definitely works with Unraid.

I'm fine with the way things are for my personal use. I'm just thinking out loud about what can be beneficial for a higher-level customer who doesn't have either our experience, or knack for digging up technical info. There's still a big market out there for the very tech-literate crowd, but the market for more consumer-focused individuals is huge. People who aren't going to even be looking at things like TruNAS, ProxMox, etc. But might be headed toward proprietary solutions from QNAP, Synology, etc. and might not mind stepping up to a simple bolt-together alternative. On a personal level, I'm more interested in remote management of Unraid systems that I can deploy for others who would love the benefits of what this type of system can offer, but aren't necessarily up to doing even a pre-made Synology solution. So not quite a homelab for those ppl, but a storage and application server that "just works" (with a casual maintenance schedule) - plex, home assistant, etc.

I don't use it for everything. And it starts OFF when installed. But when someone does want this functionality, it's not exactly something most people would suspect they need to go search for a plugin to achieve, seeing as it's the kind of setting that's available as part of most core operating systems and applications they're used to using. Making things easier means a wider audience. Which means more sales potential. You can see in this very forum people questioning the fact certain "add-ons" don't come preinstalled and whether they might disappear. Docker for instance, via CA. Anyone even faintly familiar with the TrueNAS apps (charts?) fiasco can see why.

These I consider critical and core to Unraid's broader functionality Community Applications CA Auto Update Applications Unassigned Devices Unassigned Devices Plus Unraid Connect A setup wizard with information and the option to enable a number of plugins would go a long way to help people get the most from the system. Reading the manual is going to help the 1% or fewer people who do that as they're setting up. 🤣

The problem is discoverability - It's not obvious what's missing nor what's available as a plugin to a new or even seasoned user. This can be mitigated by having some plugins be part of a base install. This allows updating them outside of the core timeline, while keeping them obvious/known.

This makes it super convenient to add any number of predefined label groups. The issue with using it for Traefik labels is that you can't pre-define the label file with substitutions/variables, so it's not convenient to get the container's name into a label value. I gave this a quick test and notice that key.value pairs aren't saved, nor can they be pre-defined by the plugin. It also requires pairs to be entered one at a time and into two different fields, which makes editing a bit slow. Maybe you can consider adding a configuration to the plugin where you can set up some defaults? And with variable substitution support so that the same defaults can easily be reused. Example: traefik.enable=true traefik.http.routers.$containername.entryPoints=https traefik.http.routers.$containername.rule=Host($containername.$TLD) traefik.http.services.$containername.loadbalancer.server.port=$containerport

So you want an "Unraid" pool. That's confirmed as coming, but no date/version has been announced for it yet. Hopefully in a future 7.0 beta.

Examples on three different systems:

Unraid isn't an appliance. VM and Docker are core features of the product and how it has, besides its merged Array, differentiated itself from other products. Both Docker and KVM are also well supported outside of Unraid, so no matter what happens, IMO, there's no danger of losing anything.

I've been farming Chia for about 40 years, mostly the old-fashioned way, but I've branched out and have been working on larger builds over the last 5 years I've watched a lot of high end server and cabling videos, and with 3-4 months of build work this is how it's turned out. It was a lot of work, but with careful planning and accurately sizing each cable, I think I was able to nail the organization and clean layout. You can see here my latest Chia work, it's F Murray Abrahm - I think the likeness came out pretty well, but the version on the left still needs some trimming.

Make a user style in Stylish, Stylus or other extension for your browser. The original CSS gets modified like this: @-moz-document domain("your local domain here") { #header { background-size: 1200px 90px; } } Specifying the size of the banner image overrides the default "100%" width and stops it from resizing as you resize the browser window. Put in the size of your own custom image - default (full) height seems to be 90px.

The technologies and software under it (which they didn't write) are great. Just too bad about the front of house. Steak in the hands of some people just ends up hamburger. Another case in point is OPNSense. The software it's based on, pfSense is so much better (and usable) in every way. For a few weeks I thought I was living on backwards planet Bizzarro because the opn fanbase is so rabid and in love with it. One might say almost cult-like.

30 year software designer. As I understand, we're here in this forum because Unraid is well suited to whatever use case we're putting it through. If you want to use Proxmox, knock yourself out. I would never bring it up as any kind of (positive) example with respect to Unraid's feature set nor future plans. And as far as Unraid backup solutions, there are some compelling alternatives out there already, a number of which have been mentioned.