donnyk

Yes i did mean syslinux brain fart I'll give it a try again and see if it works i may have missed something.

Did you read the earlier posts? Did you label your boot disk UNRAID ? I believe so yes, under /dev/ the disk by label portion directory was completely missing. When i created the drive image i basically added a new hard drive to another vmware virtual machine, then mounted it and ran a quickformat it on it and set the label to UNRAID then ran sysconfig with -f to force because the drive was not removable and of course copied the files. Then i detached the drive from the windows vm and attached it to the vm i had configured for vmraid, as i said it booted but had a few errors. I can try it again to make sure I did not make any errors but in the long run I intend to have more then 3 drives so its likely not worth the effort. It would be ideal to have a version which will install to the HDD and use a hard drive serial or something of that nature for license purposes. Then again if its a VM i suppose that is all fake able.

using what, vmware, virtualbox, etc? It booted just fine for me but it noted that usb was missing and network config was messed up (loopback was missing even).

Just as an update setting the driver to e1000 in the vmx file works great. However the issue remains of the usb key, is there any chance of sensible instructions for installing to a hard drive, is that something that may be an option in version 5? I created a hard disk image that booted but it had a few errors due to the usb device not being present.

Ya i just found that.. thanks! I'm about to give that a try. In the short/mid term i'd like to buy unRaid, however if i go the vmware ESXi route at home as i would like I wont be able to use a usb key. Is there anyway around this without going the full slackware install route?

I should add that my testing was with 4.5 final.

Hi All, I've been looking for a nas that suits my needs for quite some time and I'm fairly certain i've found that with unRaid. I do however like to prototype things before i commit to them fully so i built a usb key for unRaid, attached it to vmware workstation and booted off the key within a vm. The problem with this however is that the network card that vmware emulates is not supported, is anyone aware of solution to this problem? The more i thought about it however though I realized perhaps runnig unRaid inside a vm might be a great idea, would provide the ability do multiple things on the same machine without hacking my unRaid install to bits to install Vmware and with a more advanced version of vmware (or another vm platform) i could encorporate NFS and iScsi shares as drives within unRaid that it would then expose to the network via SMB/CIFS. I could build a slackware dev environment and build the required pcnet32.ko driver but i would have to continually maintain this every release. I was wondering if anyone had come across this problem before and if they had come up with a solution? Is there another virtual machine software that exposes a network card unRaid supports? Or is the appropriate place for this within the feature request forum to incorporate the required driver into the kernel. Thanks in advance, Donny