TheSpatulaOfLove

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  1. A few weeks ago, my cache SSD failed spectacularly.   I was unable to recover the Appdata folder from the SSD drive before it went down in flames.

     

    Fast forward, I purchased a new SSD and installed, but found that I couldn't get the appdata backup from the array to pull over to the new SSD.   I assume there may have been ongoing corruption from the SSD failing and it may have not been a complete backup. 

     

    So I recreated the appdata from scratch and started over.   Unfortunately, it has not been stable.   I loaded a docker (homebridge) and it was working okay, except for the inability to check for updates.   I had seen this previously and saw some posts about a workaround, but ever bothered to address it and assumed it would be patched in the next unraid release.

     

    Yesterday, I noticed my homebridge stuff was not working.    I tried to login to the webgui, and it threw a bunch of errors.   I didn't spend a lot of time researching why and decided a Microsoft Shuffle may be a simple fix, so I rebooted the machine and went to bed.    Boy was I wrong.  

     

    I woke up this morning to dockers completely missing.    I tried to load another docker and got this error:

     

    Error: open /var/lib/docker/tmp/GetImageBlob1352818194: no such file or directory

     

    Is my install toast?   Do I need to redo Unraid?

     

    Help.

     

     

     

  2. 52 minutes ago, ghost82 said:

    Hi, there's no solution at the time of writing for recent version of big sur (>=11.3), so applying the mentioned patch to the kernel is not enough.

    Apple in recent os checks for some other and that's why we are still unable to enable content cache.

    It's far from my knowledge on how to write a new patch, because it could require the coding of a lilu plugin.

     

    Apple is also changing a lot of things with monterey and ota delta updates: we are aware of what's causing this, but changes to bootloader are in standby, and they will be probably pushed in a pr when monterey release will be out.

     

    Thanks for the clarification.  

     

    I'm not looking to do anything super-whiz-bang on this VM.   Content caching was a nice to have, but what I'm most interested in was having all the iOS devices (10 of them) wirelessly sync/backup to the OSX VM since no one in my family seems to care about backing their crap up. 

     

    In order to meet my objectives within the limits of the current state, would you recommend I start over with a High Sierra (or other) install?

     

  3. On 8/17/2021 at 2:40 PM, ghost82 said:

     

    UPDATE: sorry, this was in some way misleading.

    It seems the patch is no longer working from big sur 11.3 beta, and it seems there's no ready workaround possible; see also here:

    https://github.com/ofawx/VmAssetCacheEnable/issues/1

     

     

    It was discussed here in the forum in the past.

    Content caching is enabled (not greyed) in system preferences if the kernel doesn't see the VMM flag in cpu futures.

    Easiest way is to apply a kernel patch in the bootloader (opencore): following patch will change the name of the VMM flag (to XXX) and content caching will be enabled.

    Add this in the EFI/OC/config.plist

     

    	<key>Kernel</key>
    	<dict>
    		<key>Add</key>
    		<array>
    .....
    .....
    		<key>Patch</key>
    		<array>
    .....
    .....
    			<dict>
    				<key>Arch</key>
    				<string>Any</string>
    				<key>Base</key>
    				<string></string>
    				<key>Comment</key>
    				<string>Block sysctl machdep.cpu.features VMM flag</string>
    				<key>Count</key>
    				<integer>1</integer>
    				<key>Enabled</key>
    				<true/>
    				<key>Find</key>
    				<data>AFZNTQA=</data>
    				<key>Identifier</key>
    				<string>kernel</string>
    				<key>Limit</key>
    				<integer>0</integer>
    				<key>Mask</key>
    				<data></data>
    				<key>MaxKernel</key>
    				<string></string>
    				<key>MinKernel</key>
    				<string></string>
    				<key>Replace</key>
    				<data>AFhYWAA=</data>
    				<key>ReplaceMask</key>
    				<data></data>
    				<key>Skip</key>
    				<integer>0</integer>
    			</dict>
    ......
    ......
    		</array>

     

     

     

    Hello

     

    I spent some time spinning my wheels trying to get Content Caching to work on my recent BigSur install.   The addition of this to my config.plist didn't seem to resolve the issue.   Is there a step I missed?  Was I supposed to apply the previously mentioned patch as well?

     

    The behavior:  

     

    I was able to get the BigSur (11.5.2) install up and running with some minor hiccups from SpaceInvader's tutorial.   One thing that I was struggling with originally was the build-in eth0 thing.    I resolved that successfully and was able to sign in with my Apple ID.  

     

    When I applied the snipped code above and rebooted, it seemed to kick me out of my Apple ID within the install and I had to sign in again (with 2FA, etc).  

     

    I headed over to the Content Caching function and the checkbox is still grey.  

     

    Not sure if there is anything to try next.

     

     

     

     

  4. Is there an ETA for the developer supported Unraid docker?   I tried the one currently in the apps section and it went down in flames.    Won’t start anymore. 
     

    When it did run, initial import lit up my server, but eventually slowed to a crawl.    After 30 something hours of processing, I had to pause the sync process to manage something else and when I tried restarting the docker, it just crashes.