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    The "Mark Read" button...

    in Forum Feedback

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    Any chance of getting the "Mark Read" button moved from the right side of the screen to the left?  When on my laptop I find my self scruubbing acroos to the right side to hit it then scrubbing back over to the left to hit home.... :(

     

    unRaid as a virtual machine guest

    in General Support (V5 and Older)

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    ah, but it makes perfect sense if I want to just have some data on the VD's and use them in my unRaid on full distro's experiments

     

    Oh, yes, a sandbox unRAID.  That too.  I always keep some such virtual unRAIDs handy for experiments.

    I wal just pointing out that you can also have a fully functional Pro unRAID with real disks out of a virtual box.

     

     

    What about vmware ESX? Can it present the drive underneath as an SATA Drive?

    I'm only used to vmware workstation & vmware server.

     

     

    Do yourself a solid and try the Sun version of VirtualBox.  I like it much better than VMware.  Haven't played with ESX, it's too hardware picky as far as I can tell.  And unlike VMware Server, Virtual Box Let's you have as many drives as you want.

     

    unRaid as a virtual machine guest

    in General Support (V5 and Older)

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    I got unRaid Pro to work under Virtual Box.  First, to get it to boot from a USB key, I went to http://agnipulse.com/2009/07/boot-your-usb-drive-in-virtualbox/ and created a .vmdk file which will connect the USB key as a bootable hard drive.  But as noted previously, the UUID gets reported as -2, so you're stuck at basic level and 3 drives.  I then plugged in my second USB key drive and attached it to the VM.  No dice.  Then it ocurred to me to change the label on the boot key from UNRAID to UNR.  Voilla!  The system saw the SECOND key drive as UNRAID and the UUID was visible... Pro up and running  :)  All config changes get recorded to the second key.  I then created another virtual hard drive (1 gb, fat32, bootable) while in my Slackware VM and copied the contents of the flash to it, but did NOT label it UNRAID.  Then I "syslinux'd" it.  I then reconfigured my unRaid VM so that:

     

    My newly created boot drive was attached to IDE Primary Master

    My CD/DVD was on IDE Secondary Master

    My 5 array +1 parity virtual drives were attached to a Sata controller.

     

    Turned on the VM and it booted FAST off the virtual HD, it used the one attached USB key (labeled UNRAID) for config and license and I was up with pro and 6 array drives.

     

    Caveat: Performance is abyssmal.  Parity check is running about 6mb/sec :( Thank God I only created 100gb drives :o

     

    Hope this helps someone....

     

    Dune Prime/Base 3.0

    in Applications

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    My guess, based on the current progress, you'll have a direct-show solution for all of the HD audio codecs, that will work with an Asus Zonar, ATI 5XXX series Video card AND Clarkdale I3 and I5 Intel CPU's, in a month or two - FFDSHOW.  It's about 85-95% there already....  Yes, windows only, but since the work is open source, I don't think it will take long for the Linux gurus to add it into XBMC.  ;)