paolinop

Yes, that problem is solved. I thought to remember that Disk Utility could be invoked from the Utility menu on the top of the screen... Now Mac OS is installed, but I could not pass through my old Quadro FX 1800 graphic card to the BigSur VM. I tried to change a lot of options with no luck. It's a pity cause the two options available for the VNC virtual graphic cards are both very slow, and I found no way to change the resolution. Any advice/link? Thanks for again the heads up, by the way cheers P

If I remember correctly the disk utility used to be available from the menu up in the screen... I was almost sure about that, but of course I was wrong!

Of course I tried. First thing I did. No Disk Utility available on this Recovery! EDIT: Sorry sorry sorry The Disk Utility was among the options in the recovery startup screen! My bad, I goofed Let's see how it plays out Thanks for the reminder, I wouldn't check again if you didn't answer

Installed Macinabox docker, chose Big Sur, executed the two user scripts... and now I am stuck at the Recovery. It boots off the recovery virtual disk, and even if I choose to reinstall Big Sur, the system cannot find the volume for the installation. Tried to change the third disk from VirtIO to SATA {like in the video shown in the first page of this thread}, but to no avail. It shows only the Base OS disk, no install disk, no target disk. Even the recovery is not visible, though after a while it defaults to it... Of course I edited the user script as per instructions. Here are a few screen captures Before writing this post I have tried to search for an answer on this forum. I guess I used the wrong keywords, cause it is the first time I could not find a solution. Any clue? I am quite green, I started with Unraid short time ago, and I still have to learn a few basic details, especially regarding Dockers and VMs management. EDIT: maybe it's important, the machine is an HP Z800 workstation, with two Xeon X5670 processors and a total of 64GB of registered RAM. It has worked well so far with Centos Stream 8 and Microsoft Server 2022 VM's. I can feed a couple of USB devices to the VM (Bluetooth works fine), but if I choose the onboard audio both the VMs cannot start. Cheers Paolo

Thanks for the answers/links. Of course when I use the word "manual" I mean the Wiki. The GUI sends you there if you need to find out about a certain function. I have already read most of the basic content of the Wiki, and I also checked a few of the more complex configuration option. Next step will be reading the Docker FAQ... I am going through the interesting process of uogeading/adapting an old HP Z800 for Unraid use. I already found a couple of speed bumps but the problems seem to be finally solved. I will probably open another thread about this project if I find enough interesting info that could help others who want to do the same thing Cheers Paolo

I just tried Unraid 9 (booted from a USB thumb drive I created months ago). The computer is an old HP Z800 workstation I bought for very little money. Now it has a dual Xeon 5630 and 64GB registered ECC, but it will end up with a dual 5670 and 96GB RAM. The three 5.25" bays offered the space to install a 4-drives 3.5" cage, so there is space for 8 internal 3.5" drives, but there is ample room available to fit a few SSD 2.5". I will also fit a Samsung 950 Pro NVMe on a cheap dumb adapter. It has an option ROM so I should be able to boot Windows 11, just in case I need a Windows machine for some special task (Unraid will serve only Mac OS machines plus a Chromebook, plus the laptop of some guests). The intended use would be to run Unraid 99% of the time, but with the option to boot a Win11 installation off a 512GB NVMe if need arises... After the first boot I have been positively impressed by the features and the design of the WebGui, but I noticed a few things I didn't expect. I tried to read the first part of the manual and also browsed the Internet in search of further details. Probably it's just my fault: I couldn't find the kind of general info that could have answered the questions I am going to ask. Here are 3 simple questions: 1) I read a bond interface is installed by default, though my USB Wireless adapter (correctly recognised, I believe) is disregarded and not presented as a network interface in the configuration. Seems a bit strange, could serve as a backup IF in case the Gigabit switch goes belly up. Any easy way to put the wireless USB thingy to good use? 2) I found no approximate/generic information about the amount of data that is created on the parity drive, depending on the total data residing on the array. The general rule apparently says that the size of the parity drive has to be equal or bigger than the larger drive of the array. Is it always true? What about a single 6TB parity disk that serves a huge array of 12 4TB disks? 3) is it still true that the best practice is to use XFS for the array and leave BTRFS for other uses (for example for a cache drive)? Most guides, especially those regarding the hardware, are quite dated. Not sure if most configuration suggestions still apply to the latest releases. I guess that browsing this forum would help a lot in his regard 🙂 Regarding my request for good "medium level" documents about the features/design choices of Unraid, feel free to suggest interesting URLs. They might be also useful to other new users. I found few interesting recent documents. On the other hand there are plenty of videos (on YouTube for example). Not as useful as text documents, IMHO. Cheers Paolo