Helsing001

I found out about UNRAID yesterday and today I wanted to test it using the free trial. I don't have a spare machine right now. I want to build my own NAS in the future if I find a good OS for it, otherwise I'll stick with my Synology. I am willing to buy UNRAID after 30 days - but for the moment I want to test its functionality. I feel like the UNRAID team doesn't provide any easy way for me to test this. I spent 4 hours today trying to start this OS in a virtual machine. After 3 hours not being able to pass the waiting up to 30 seconds for device with label unraid to come online error I realised that if I downgrade to 6.9.2 the error disappears. One hour after, I'm still struggling with Unable to connect error on localhost after startup. Is there any easy way to test this other than bringing down my very old laptop from the attic and use it instead of a VM to test the functionality of UNRAID? My understanding is that all these 'limitations' are related to licensing. As a software developer myself, one of the first thing I learned is that you don't want to anger your already paying or potential customers by over-protecting against ilegal distributions of your software. I think we're all aware that illegal distributions of UNRAID already exist, so maybe ease up the experience of users who really want to use this software legally. Provide an ISO image and maybe a standard serial number licensing model.