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No, I haven't tried that. So it's a bit more complicated than I implied above. I actually had moved an original bare metal install of windows to a vm, and have an ntfs partition that was originally on that system that I use for my steam library. So for the 2 other vm's that I mentioned above (true actual vm's), I was mounting that ntfs partition as a separate mapped drive - but can only boot up 1 of those 2 vm's at the same time. Is it possible to mount an ntfs partition as an smb share for the vm's?

So my system has 2 discrete graphics cards and 2 windows VM's setup with a graphics card dedicated to each of them. A 'standard' 2 gamers on 1 PC setup. Each vm is installed on its own vdisk of course, but in order to save ssd disk space I had created a single partition to share game installs between the 2 vm's. So in Steam, I use the 'shared' partition as the library install point, and when either vm is loaded they can access the installed game. Only recently did I actually try to run both vm's at the same time and discovered that when one vm is running, it locks the 'shared' gaming partition and prevents the other vm from running. In retrospect this makes sense since I'd imagine it would corrupt files if 2 systems were writing to it at the same time. But is there any way around this? Is it possible for the 2 vm's to be 'aware' of each other, still mount the shared partition, and just prevent files in use from being loaded (i.e. the same game or save game file)?

Thanks for the detailed response - much appreciated. So I have the libvirt in a system share that is cache only, the iso is in a share that is set to cache "yes" and then the VM image is on the array...so a mix, but given the VM image is on the array, I would image it's the culprit as you suggest. The downside to moving the VM image to a disk off the array is that you lose redundancy, correct? An alternative I could see is to assign the share that the VM image is stored in to 1 disk in the array, so that I could minimize the number of disks spun up all the time. Downside to that?

I installed an Ubuntu VM on my machine to enable a VPN service to route all my web traffic through (basically using the spaceinvader1 tutorial). This was ~30 days ago. Now every time I login to my server, all of the disks are spun up all the time. First question is whether this is bad for the drives...I know it uses more energy, but is it bad for disk life, etc. Second question is whether its bad for disks or not, what can I do to get the disks to spin down again. I assume its the VM that caused this. Thanks!

Yeah that did it. Adblock. Can't believe I didn't think of that. Was never a problem before. But I switched the port from 80 to something else a few months back, so maybe that was it. Either way, thanks for the help.

The main issue I'm having right now is that my user shares do not appear in my webGUI, and I cannot create new ones. All of my folders and files are still file (AFAIK) on the array. The config files for the shares exist on the flash drive too. I don't recall when this particular issue arose, but I can give a brief history of recent issues that may be of use. I'm not exactly sure what the problem was, but I was having issues with my cache drive. It was formatted as BTRFS, had a docker image on it. I recall one day a few months back that it was mounting as read only. Tried to fix it by scrubbing, but I don't recall that working. Long story short, I ended up reformatting it to xfs. I believe even before the reformat I was having issues with the user shares disappearing. Since the reformat, I've run drive diagnostics on the cache drive, as well as all of my reiser formatted array drives, while in maintenance mode. Everything seems ok with them. Just ran squid's Fix Common Problems app and that came back clean too. Not sure what the problem is...hoping someone can help. unraid-diagnostics-20160511-2302.zip

I've installed this docker, which is pretty awesome by the way, but I have a question about keeping changes persistent. From my understanding, and experience, let's say you use apt-get within the ubuntu vm to install a new application. Then you decide to make a change to the docker configuration in unraid (say adding a new port that gets carried through), which results in the base image being reloaded and you lose the changes you made (i.e. the newly installed application). Is there any way around this? One thing that I saw you can do is to map /etc from the ubuntu vm to a directory on the cache drive in unraid. Do you see a downside to this? EDIT: Actually just saw that I can't even start the docker when I do this, so clearly it's not a viable option. Back to the first question - any way to keep something persistently installed? Say apache for example...which installs to /etc/apache2.

Very noob post - be gentle. So, I want to install either TaskBoard or kanboard on my unraid server and have either available via the web. TaskBoard says it requires Apache2 running PHP 5.5+, with sqlite and php5-sqlite. Kanboard requires Apache with PHP 5.3.3+, with mbstring, gd, and pdo_sqlite. Now I'm very new to trying to set up a webserver, so I was trying to use dmacias' Apache Web Server plugin. As far as I can tell, I've installed this properly. I copied the Taskboard files into the Apache Document directory on my cache drive, and when I go to port 8088 on my localhost and click on Taskboard I get to the app. But after I enter the default username and password, nothing happens. For Kanboard, after copying the files to the Apache Document directory, again, I can see the folder when I navigate to 8088, but when I click on the kanboard link, it just takes me one level deeper into the directory structure. I know I'm missing something here. Either I haven't installed an extension or enabled something properly, or maybe I didn't compile one of the apps. I've searched forums for the plugin as well as the 2 apps, and I cannot figure out what to do to get these to work. Is there an easier way to install Apache with the extensions I mentioned above? I've also tried the TaskBoard Docker app, but that doesn't work either...same problem...when I enter the default username and password, I cannot log into the app.

I'm new to Docker, so these questions might sound dumb. I'm running unraid 6 beta10. In the Docker tab of the GUI I have 2 entries for Crashplan. I must have set one up via the GUI using the template from gfjardim. Then after that, I used the command line, since I thought that was necessary to start the app. After looking at the entries, it looks like the first one didn't actually do anything (no ports are listed), so I'm assuming the first entry is unnecessary and can be deleted? The second thing is with respect to uncommenting the machine address and port number in the ui.properties file in the Crashplan app on my computer I use to access the unraid server. If I remember correctly, previously when using Influencer's Crashplan plugin, you would recomment those lines once you were done setting up the backup. Do I need to do that here as well? Or is it ok to leave it uncommented? Thanks for the help! One additional followup I thought of after I posted. When I used the command line to setup the Crashplan Docker, I set the path to my config as a new folder called /mnt/user/appdata/crashplan, likely because I saw that example somewhere. This folder didn't actually exist before, so the command created one. But now this shows up as a new share, and it is not on the cache drive. Should it be? And if it is supposed to be on the cache drive, can I change the location of the config folder after the fact to my normal app folder on the cache drive (in other words, can I change the setting in the docker entry)?