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Very Similar for me. I've always just thought because I have a PCI-E Raid Card, its reporting that memory capacity rather than the mobo?

When it shows the screen during the installation where it would usually show a disk, click on "load drivers" and browse to the virtio driver CD (you'll need to specify the ISO when you set up the VM). after that, it'll show up the disk you assigned and your off. Mine blue-screened after one reboot during installation, but its been fine since.

Thanks for all the input guys. Any criticism is welcome as i want a system that will last the test of time... To answer a few things in the thread so far... the z800 motherboard DOES support 5600 series CPUs as long as you use a 003 revision board. you might need to get a 5500 series to initially boot to bios with and update it, but the 003 revision definately supports the 5600 range. The z800 mobo is so cheap is because it doesnt have standard ATX mounting holes and its HUGE. you need to modify your mobo tray to mount it in a case.... unless you get a hp z800 case. it also has non standard power connectors and undocumented i/o pin-outs. So its a big project in itself just to get it to boot inside a case. So thats why its so cheap. if you take into account the cost of your time, it might be more cost effective to just get an E-ATX dual socket mobo. I was quite willing to take on the challenge though. What spurred me to take a punt with all of this was to replace my NUC (i3-4010U) to something 4k capable, and as someone else pointed out, my unraid server is always on when the NUC is anyway, so using a VM on the unraid box makes alot of sense. Passing through a x265 decode capable hdmi2.0 card to a vm ticks that box. Bearing a few other posts in mind, the 2011 socket route does make alot more sense than sticking with 1366, especially when there are 12core cpus in that range which will only get cheaper over time and allow upgrade ability for a few years to come. Now i just need to find a dual cpu mobo with as many pci-e slots as possible and the best 2011 socked xeons for a decent price

If its single monitor, id look into using a raspberry pi as a remote desktop terminal maybe? if your monitor has usb ports, that would power the Pi, so not very many cables if its using wireless

@jonp I realise the specs are a little old, but each of the Xeons are better performance wise with my current i7 3770 PC, I dont think i'll notice much of a difference! plus the mobo is a steal at around £60, when you look at newer socket dual CPU boards, the price jumps through the roof! Usage wise, 99% of the time its only used for Office type stuff with music playing in the background. If anything i think it'll be like using a hammer to break an egg! the main outlay in all this is the case, which will be recycled for many years to come if i decide to upgrade in a couple of years. After typing the sleep question, i think it was a daft one to ask, but i'll throw some clarification to what im trying to achieve... this will be the VM that'll be used by people in the house who have no idea what a VM is, im wanting to mimic what we do at the moment with our main pc which is where we invoke 'sleep' using a keyboard button. basically it spins down the hdds, stops graphics output and mutes the sound, blah blah. If i cant do that and all im doing is turning off the monitors, the speakers could stil throw out notification sounds, the screens could come on if my dog decides to fall asleep against my desk and make the mouse move etc. It'l be one of those "nice to have" bits once everything is up and running i think. I could write a batch script to turn off the screens\mute the sound etc, but the tricky bit will be to undo all that when you want to use the machine again... i dont know, im typing out loud! @snoopy yes, my server sits next to the PC it'll be replacing and on the other side of a wall that the HTPC is on. so 2x hdmi to my monitors for the windows machine, and one hdmi through the wall to my AV receiver. if anyone is interested, these are the possible bits i'll be buying: Mobo: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Genuine-New-HP-Z800-Workstation-Motherboard-576202-001-460838-002-/121450083451?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c46fd347b CPUs: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Intel-Xeon-X5680-3-33GHz-3-6GHz-Turbo-12MB-6-4GT-s-SLBV5-LGA1366-CPU-Processor-/291383759919?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43d7d3542f Case: http://www.corsair.com/en-gb/obsidian-series-900d-super-tower-case HTPC GPU: Nvidia GTX 960 (HDMI 2.0 and x265 hardware decoding), or something similar when i come to buy that supports HTPC type stuff Windows GPU: whatever is good at the time to do light gaming USB3 Card:http://www.scan.co.uk/products/lycom-usb-31-type-a-dual-(2)-port-card-pci-e-20-x4-up-to-10gbps , then off to a usb3 hub for stuff to plug into.

i'll be passing through a GPU, connected to two monitors via DP\HDMI and a pci-e USB3 card for keyboard\mouse, so it'll be direct access (in theory). That'll be to replace my main PC

Guys, As my "plan" is going to cost me a considerable amount of ££ and time, I wanted to run things past people who possibly have this sort of setup already to give their opinion on day to day usability. I need it to be stable enough for my IT illiterate other half to not have to call me up every other day when things don't work! With KVM maturing very quickly on unraid, Im thinking of replacing my daily driver PC and my NUC (HTPC) with an upgrade to my unraid server and have those running as KVM Machines. My current setup is a single CPU Xeon system, 16GB DDR3 with a 6x port SAS\SATA Raid card with my SSD and HDDs for the array off it. As it was a cheap server mobo i bought, ive no spare PCI-e slots to do any sort of GPU\Sound card or USB Card pass through to VMs. My proposed new system will be: HP z800 Workstation motherboard 2x Xeon X5680 6 core CPU 48GB RAM Corsair 900d to house the beast of a motherboard 2x GPUs to pass through to VMs 1x USB3 expansion card to pass through to Windows VM 1x Sound card to pass through to Windows VM Host OS would be Unraid. Daily driver PC would be windows 10 with a graphics card\sound card\USB3 card passed through to it. HTPC would be kodibuntu or another windows 10 machine with Kodi installed with a Graphics card passed through to it. Here are my questions: 1. Can i use different brand graphics cards for different VMs without KVM being funny? Eg, use an nvidia card for the HTPC and ATI for the daily driver? From what ive read so far, there wouldnt be an issue, but just want to check. 2. Does KVM support putting VMs to "sleep", and waking via usb input (keyboard\mouse input) like a normal PC does? if yes, does putting the VM to sleep also put the hardware it would have passed to it into some sort of low power mode? if not, i'll just have to map the sleep key to turn off monitors so it "feels" like the machine has gone to sleep. 3. People who have HTPCs or Windows Machines accessing via a console (not vnc or rdp), what is responsiveness like compared to a "normal" PC? any noticeable lag\stuttering? 4. Im expecting a few fps lower performance on gaming, but is it still usable? I would test all the above myself, but without any expansion slots to put in a graphics card, i'm a bit stuck without spending some money! Also, If people are interested, I'd be happy to do a build log when i come round to actually getting stuck in and building (probably July). Thanks guys

Im in the same boat as a couple of other posters and dont have a spare PCI-e slot for a graphics card to pass through... As this matures and graphics cards appear with x265 decoding and hdmi 2.0, that might be enough to push me over the edge and upgrade the mobo... been eyeing up a dual cpu motherboard for a while now and need an excuse to pull the trigger! Also means i need to buy a 4k capable av receiver and tv though... quite an expensive upgrade Im blaming you guys when my other half starts asking questions!

Hi Guys, If anyone else on here is a bitcoin user, you'll know why full nodes are important for the bitcoin network. This page sums it up quite well: http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-nodes-need/. Obviously this wouldn't be used as a wallet, just as a node. There are bitcoin docker images out there, but its a little beyond my capabilities to get this running on unraid.

Brilliant. I wasnt aware of the kodi-send stuff. That'll make life alot easier! I know unraid can use crontab files in /etc/cron.d to schedule stuff. Can easily generate those files here: http://www.crontab-generator.org/. Scheduled library stuff should be easily automated with cron and kodi-send once im happy its behaving. Thanks again.

Hi Guys. Got everything installed yesterday evening without a hitch (thanks sparklyballs!). Couple of kodi questions though if anyone can help. I'll be copying the sources.xml file to the headless setup later this evening to add sources (or can you manaully add these into the mysql db?, but looking at the xml file, it doesnt seem to specify here what dataset to lookup against... tvdb, moviedb etc. Where would you set these, or does it just fall back to the default for that media type? or again, would you set this in the db? Where can you set the frequency of library updates and cleans? at the moment my xbmc box will scan on startup, but with this being an always on setup, it wont be getting turned off\on like my other box will. Feature request: Ability to set sources (and passwords if needed) with variables in the docker template. Thanks again. Mark

Guys, trying to clear out my old beta7 docker settings and im getting the following when running through the instructions on the OP. btrfs subvolume delete /mnt/cache/docker/btrfs/* returns: Transaction commit: none (default) ERROR: error accessing '/mnt/cache/docker/btrfs/*' rm -r /mtn/cache/docker/ rm: cannot remove â/mnt/cache/docker/btrfsâ: Device or resource busy EDIT: Missed the DockerMan.plg hiding in the plugins directory. Deleted the plg and the DockerMan directory, rebooted and i was able to remove the legacy docker directory in /mnt/cache/docker. must have been locking a file and preventing deletion. also get this message on the docker page now: Fatal error: Cannot redeclare pgrep() (previously declared in /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/webGui/include/helpers.php:112) in /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/webGui/include/myPage_content.php(71) : eval()'d code on line 14 Any ideas?

Take a look at the docker plugin available on the latest beta. The owncloud docker plugin would fit the bill quite well.

Hi guys, Just wondering if anyone is taking the time to re-encode their x264 mkv's into x265 to save on space? Now openelec/xbmc supports x265 I'm quite surprised that 99% of releases are still in x264 if the file size differences boasted are actually true. Almost tempted to download bluray rips and encode to x265 myself going forward. Also slightly off topic, but would the unraid os be capable of re-encoding video (albeit slowly!) to x265?

My issue was that i pointed the data folder at a folder that already existed. I created said folder through windows if that makes any difference? Try and point the datapath at a folder that doesnt yet exist, like in your case '/mnt/cache/appdata/ownclouddata' and let it create the ownclouddata folder itself. I can only assume if that works its something to do with the default permissions it assigns when you create folders and the user the docker service runs as doesnt have the necessary permissions to create subfolders\files somewhere. Mark

/mnt/user/DockerAppData/owncloud Cleared the content of the folder and re-downloaded everything and im in business.

Id be interested to hear a response to grumpys earlier posts on the use of slackware over a more widely used, widely supported distro. I understand that it would be a 'starting from scratch' sort of scenario, but is it something we can expect in the distant future? (eg v7, v8?)

Hi Guys, When creating a docker for ownCoud im getting the following error when it started: *** Running /etc/my_init.d/00_regen_ssh_host_keys.sh... No SSH host key available. Generating one... Creating SSH2 RSA key; this may take some time ... Creating SSH2 DSA key; this may take some time ... Creating SSH2 ECDSA key; this may take some time ... Creating SSH2 ED25519 key; this may take some time ... invoke-rc.d: policy-rc.d denied execution of restart. *** Running /etc/my_init.d/config.sh... *** Running /etc/rc.local... *** Booting runit daemon... *** Runit started as PID 310 nginx: [emerg] BIO_new_file("/opt/server.pem") failed (SSL: error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory:fopen('/opt/server.pem','r') error:2006D080:BIO routines:BIO_new_file:no such file) the nginx error is repeated constantly from that point. I edited the subject variable as noted in the OP, but still no go. Am I missing something simple? Mark

Loving Docker so far. If anything im finding out apps like this exist! Im primarily a windows server guy so finding all these cool open source apps that have previously been out of scope for unraid (unless i was being blind in the plugin forums) is really quite cool.

Hi Guys, I have a QNAP TS-669 Pro with 6x2TB drives for sale. The unit has only been briefly used while I was studying for my Vmware VCP exam. Drives installed are all Seagate 2TB SATA III Performance HDD ST2000DM001. These retail for £890ish new, and the drives at about £65 each. Looking for approx £950 Mark

bump, reduced to £55

dropping the price to £65 £55 for a quick sale

Hi guys, PCI-e (8x) Dell SAS card for sale. Was spec'd for a server in error and the card is sat here not doing much. has 2 4x external ports, so ideal for attaching an external HDD enclosure to an existing Unraid Server. This is the card: http://accessories.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=ca&l=en&s=corp&sku=342-0910 sale is for the Card only. Looking for approx £85 £65 £55 +£3 P&P but would accept reasonable offers. Mark