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Thanks. This fixed the issue. Gary

Interesting. I have not yet found a need to use this yet. I have kill scripts for shutting down VM's which the apcupsd plugin handles for me. This is actually a good idea. Should be implemented in unRAID as default behavior. The powerdown plugin rotates logs but doesn't archive them. I might have to do this myself! Gary

Yeah, this was the direction I was thinking. I have a few scripts that are setup this way. But we need a webGUI page to manage and display them. Most users aren't able to do this sort of thing manually. Like a dressed up CPanel interface to cron jobs. There would be built-in tasks to select, like the mover or parity check, and users could add a script of their own to schedule and run. Email or log the results (or both). A lot of people have asked for startup and shutdown tasks too, so I thought this would be a good place to implement that too. Rather than chosing a date/time, you would choose an event, before or after array stop, or before or after array start. Security might be difficult though. I don't know anything about Linux security except what I read here. You'd have to protect users from screwing up stuff with scripts they found on the internet.

I had the same problem on 2 of my flash drives. I posted a defect report already. See here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=36643.0 Use your syslinux folder from unRAID 6b10a. Gary

I would like to see the task scheduler expanded to be more configurable. We already have a few items that can be scheduled in unRAID, like a parity check and the cache mover, plus there other scripts or functions that people add manually to cron like smart drive tests, backup or sync, and array status emails. A central place to schedule pre-defined functions and add additional ones would be cool. Could be something as simple as a script or .xml or .plg file that performs some function, we select it from a list (list box) or add a new one (similar to installing a plugin), and then we can schedule it by time, day, week, etc. Even better would be to add the ability to add shutdown and startup tasks in the same way as the other tasks. As far as displaying scheduled tasks to the user, they could be displayed with a calendar or a queue list sorted by time and date. I’m sure others have some good ideas about this too. This is probably something to add later on or in stages. Not really a short term or easy request to accommodate. Gary

JustinChase, I pretty much have the same board as you and get the same results from sensors-detect so you can use my sensors.conf file above below too. Here is my /boot/config/sensors.conf file: # sensor configuration chip "coretemp-isa-0000" label temp1 "MB Temp" label temp2 "CPU Temp" Don't forget to add modprobe coretemp in your go file. Gary

eroz, try this for your sensors.conf file and save on your flash drive. Since you are returning results from sensors -u coretemp-isa-0000, I am pretty sure it will work. /boot/config/sensors.conf # sensor configuration chip "coretemp-isa-0000" label temp1 "MB Temp" label temp2 "CPU Temp" Don't forget to add modprobe coretemp in your go file. Hope that helps, Gary

Check out the Wiki for information on setting up CPU and board temperature sensing here: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Setting_up_CPU_and_board_temperature_sensing You'll want to save your sensors.conf file to your flash drive here: /boot/config/sensors.conf Gary

Bonienl, Thanks for all your hard work on these plugins and the Dynamix integration into unRAID! This really looks great! Gary

Just wanted to report my upgrade from beta 10a went smooth and both my unRAID server and Xen VM's work great. Thanks to everyone involved! I know this was a big release and required a lot of work from many different people to get this one out. Gary

This is the method I use: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=30496.0 I know others use it too. SNAP is another method but I haven't tried it as the above mentioned method in the thread works just fine for me. Gary

Interesting! I had no idea that this had been changed. I'm not sure of the impact. I haven't played with the 6.0 beta yet, and never will as all I have is a production server. I might do a 6.0 release candidate, but will probably wait until final. -Paul Here is what I have found when using it with unRAID 6b10a. The script seems to work just fine. The disk settings only have md_num_stripes and md_sync_window as available options to change. In the disk.cfg file on your flash drive, there is still an md_write_limit value and it's default is 768. Changing the 2 available options seems to have no effect on the md_write_limit as it still has a value of 768, even if I choose really high values for md_num_stripes and md_sync_window. If you upgraded from unRAID v5 and had used custom values like I did, those values are retained in the upgrade to unRAID v6. However, changing the values in the webGUI will reset the md_write_limit back to it's default value of 768. Also, the default values for all 3 of these settings in v6 are still the same as they were in v5. There does seem to be a difference in the values for unRAID v5 vs. v6 so if you are running the v6 beta, I would use the script to re-calculate better values for unRAID v6. Gary

That would be pretty cool!

This is odd. I only get an email notification when a new thread is created, not when there is a new post. Maybe there is an option when choosing to subscribe to the announcement forum as to how the user is notified, i.e. new thread or new post. So the way it works for me is non-obtrusive.

I almost got an R9 290 last week since AMD dropped the price on them but have held off as I keep reading the NVidia cards are better at pass-through than the AMD cards on KVM. As much as I like to get a GTX970 I would be upset if it didn't work. I think I'm going to play it safe and get a GTX 750 Ti. Its cheap enough where if it doesn't work I won't be too upset over it.

Just thought I would let you know that my Windows 7 VM on Xen works great under beta 7. It ran good on beta 5a, but crashed every few hours on beta 6. Another thing I noticed is an increase in network speed. I use MetaBrowser 2 an my scan would normally take 70 seconds to read through 1000 media folders. Under beta 7, I am getting speeds of 45-50 seconds. This is exactly the same VM with no changes made to software or hardware under the above mentioned beta's. Thanks

I think he means having unRAID act as a PXE Boot Server either natively or as some sort of plugin with a webGUI interface to manage it. This could probably be done with docker too although I haven't seen one yet. The idea was most likely from this thread http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=31297.0. I've done this myself as outlined in that thread as I do a number of Windows installations and run Memtest86+ and on quite a few machines. I haven't used it since running the unRAID 6 beta's as I want to have a stock configuration during the beta cycle.

Question: Is there anything new or different in beta 7 that might help a Windows VM under Xen run more stable? What about KVM? I have a windows 7 VM running on Xen with unRAID beta 5a that runs for weeks without a hiccup. On beta 6 it crashes every 12 to 24 hours. Converting it to KVM is useless due to hardware changes, so I did a a fresh install of Windows 7 on KVM with unRAID beta 6 and I have networking problems where I can never get the VM to use a static IP address. Its like every reboot causes network discovery issues and always falls back to DHCP mode. I haven't tried much else because beta 5a works so well. Also, I have not tried Windows 8 either due to the amount of work required in reinstalling programs and initial setup. If Windows 8 is better than Windows 7 running in a VM (under Xen or KVM), I could try that instead. Note that I'm not doing any hardware pass through here. Just need a stable Windows VM. Thanks.

Did some googling and you're right, the QCOW2 format has it's own type. <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2'/> <source file='/mnt/vm/WHS2011/WHS2011.qcow2'/> <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/> </disk> Unfortunately, WHS2011 couldn't recover from the conversion. Couldn't see it's own OS to boot. Likely driver issues vs XEN. You can also use your converted qcow2 file in Xen and xl by changing this line in your cfg file: disk = ['file:/mnt/SSD/Xen/Windows7/Windows7.img,hda,w'] to this: disk = ['qcow2:/mnt/SSD/Xen/Windows7/Windows7.qcow2,hda,w'] There are a few other ways to do this but I know this works in the webgui too.

I upgraded to v6 from v5a without any problems. My Windows 7 VM works just fine. It automatically starts and stops perfectly when rebooting or shutting down unraid. I also used the webGUI to change my cache drive from rfs to btrfs without problems. Once that was done, I noticed the docker service shows as started. Thanks for all the great work that has gone into this!

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I have an HD for a cache drive but use an SSD outside the array for VM storage. I don't really want to use my SSD for a cache drive as I prefer to have them separate.

I have 11 drives for data, cache, and parity. I also have an SSD that is not part of the array for VM storage.

The above error is repeated ad nauseum before displaying the statistics of each drive. You can fix this error by placing the following code at the top of the smarthistory.php file: if( ! ini_get('date.timezone') ) { date_default_timezone_set('America/Chicago'); } Change 'America/Chicago' to your own timezone as listed here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php Basically, those few lines set the default timezone in the php file rather than the php.ini file. Gary

Thanks for the special pricing! I picked up one yesterday. unRAID 6 here I come