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Thanks for the correction on the process! I think I want to change to BTRFS because of TRIM support in BTRFS to reduce the wear on the SSD drive? But happy to be corrected again :-)

I have an SSD drive containing the Xen Vms and docker image. I have used Crashplan extensively to back up normal machines. I have installed the docker version on unRAID b12, and have passed through the /mnt directory into it. I am using it to back up my normal shares. I would like to use it to backup the running Xen VMs, but I'm not sure how open files are treated. Has anyone tried it? Can I, and more importantly, should I ?! Cheers,

I have a 500GB cache drive which contains my XEN vms and Docker image. Should I change it to BTRFS. If so, then is the process as follows? Stop all VMs Stop all Dockers Copy cache drive contents to array disk Stop array Unassign cache drive Format cache drive *How do I get Unraid to recognise this drive as new and then let me format as BTRFS? Reassign cache drive - Start array Copy cache drive conents from array disk Stop array Start array for Docker and VM to restart I am running b12 Cheers

Hi Squid, good catch. I had over provisioned the VMs. I take it that Xen doesn't do thin provisioning. I've reduced them now, so XEN + Dom0 takes around 22GB RAM. I've restarted Crashplan and Squeezeserver and so far still running. Memory usage for Unraid seems high - 80%, should I increase the amount allocated? How do I know how much memory Docker containers are taking? cheers.

I have only these 3 containers installed. Using 6.0 b12 with 32GB RAM on a Supermicro X10SL7-F. Crashplan works ok with less than 100Gb files selected. It crashes with more than this. The gui says "disconnected from backup engine". It already has 1024M in the srv parameters Squeezebox has about 100Gb of music to scan. It crashes every few seconds. Below is a syslog excerpt. I guess both these containers need more RAM? How do I do that? Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: cpuload invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x2000d0, order=2, oom_score_adj=0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: cpuload cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: CPU: 1 PID: 1591 Comm: cpuload Not tainted 3.17.4-unRAID #1 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: Hardware name: Supermicro X10SL7-F/X10SL7-F, BIOS 2.00 04/24/2014 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: 0000000000000000 ffff880056507b48 ffffffff815e4145 ffff880055e1c890 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: ffff880056507bd0 ffffffff815e0bc1 ffffffff8107f1a2 0000000000000000 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: ffffffff815e9979 0000000000050bc8 ffff880056507ba8 ffffffff81099a70 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: Call Trace: Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [] dump_stack+0x45/0x56 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [] dump_header+0x7a/0x1df Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [] ? ktime_get+0x49/0x87 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x50/0x60 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [] ? delayacct_end+0x50/0x59 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [] oom_kill_process+0x6d/0x328 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [] out_of_memory+0x40c/0x425 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x6eb/0x832 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [] alloc_kmem_pages_node+0x74/0xeb Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [] copy_process.part.38+0xeb/0x15f1 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [] ? get_empty_filp+0xa8/0x16d Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [] do_fork+0xb4/0x29d Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [] ? __set_task_blocked+0x5e/0x65 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [] SyS_clone+0x11/0x13 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [] stub_clone+0x69/0x90 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: Mem-Info: Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: Node 0 DMA per-cpu: Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: CPU 0: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: CPU 1: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: CPU 2: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: CPU 3: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: CPU 4: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: CPU 5: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: CPU 6: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: CPU 7: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: Node 0 DMA32 per-cpu: Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: CPU 0: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: CPU 1: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: CPU 2: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: CPU 3: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: CPU 4: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: CPU 5: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: CPU 6: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: CPU 7: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: Node 0 Normal per-cpu: Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: CPU 0: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: CPU 1: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: CPU 2: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: CPU 3: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: CPU 4: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: CPU 5: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: CPU 6: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: CPU 7: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: active_anon:179851 inactive_anon:10785 isolated_anon:0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: active_file:6100 inactive_file:17272 isolated_file:5 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: unevictable:36 dirty:14187 writeback:2960 unstable:0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: free:68443 slab_reclaimable:54932 slab_unreclaimable:12316 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: mapped:13226 shmem:116814 pagetables:3038 bounce:0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: free_cma:0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: Node 0 DMA free:6240kB min:48kB low:60kB high:72kB active_anon:1216kB inactive_anon:220kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:20kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:15968kB managed:15884kB mlocked:0kB dirty:0kB writeback:8kB mapped:64kB shmem:412kB slab_reclaimable:4800kB slab_unreclaimable:1540kB kernel_stack:432kB pagetables:28kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB free_cma:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:140 all_unreclaimable? yes Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 1553 1553 1553 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: Node 0 DMA32 free:267532kB min:5016kB low:6268kB high:7524kB active_anon:718188kB inactive_anon:42920kB active_file:24404kB inactive_file:69068kB unevictable:144kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):20kB present:3612964kB managed:1592052kB mlocked:144kB dirty:56748kB writeback:11832kB mapped:52840kB shmem:466844kB slab_reclaimable:214928kB slab_unreclaimable:47724kB kernel_stack:4784kB pagetables:12124kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB free_cma:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:575948 all_unreclaimable? yes Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: Node 0 Normal free:0kB min:0kB low:0kB high:0kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:19443856kB managed:6640kB mlocked:0kB dirty:0kB writeback:0kB mapped:0kB shmem:0kB slab_reclaimable:0kB slab_unreclaimable:0kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:0kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB free_cma:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? yes Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: Node 0 DMA: 61*4kB (UEM) 72*8kB (E) 97*16kB (EM) 3*32kB (R) 1*64kB (R) 1*128kB (R) 0*256kB 1*512kB (R) 1*1024kB (R) 1*2048kB (R) 0*4096kB = 6244kB Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: Node 0 DMA32: 62229*4kB (UEMR) 2190*8kB (UEMR) 66*16kB (UEMR) 1*32kB (R) 1*64kB (R) 2*128kB (R) 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 267844kB Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: Node 0 Normal: 0*4kB 0*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 0kB Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: 140175 total pagecache pages Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: 0 pages in swap cache Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: Swap cache stats: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: Free swap = 0kB Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: Total swap = 0kB Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: 5768197 pages RAM Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: 0 pages HighMem/MovableOnly Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: 4859304 pages reserved Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ pid ] uid tgid total_vm rss nr_ptes swapents oom_score_adj name Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 1101] 0 1101 5395 618 16 0 -1000 udevd Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 1308] 0 1308 58495 891 26 0 0 rsyslogd Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 1478] 1 1478 1856 370 7 0 0 rpc.portmap Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 1482] 32 1482 3209 485 11 0 0 rpc.statd Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 1492] 0 1492 1615 430 8 0 0 inetd Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 1502] 0 1502 6232 641 15 0 -1000 sshd Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 1511] 0 1511 48118 2548 97 0 0 ntpd Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 1521] 0 1521 1096 404 7 0 0 acpid Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 1533] 81 1533 4359 52 13 0 0 dbus-daemon Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 1535] 0 1535 1617 417 8 0 0 crond Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 1537] 0 1537 1615 25 8 0 0 atd Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 1541] 0 1541 49065 1206 93 0 0 nmbd Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 1543] 0 1543 68502 3506 133 0 0 smbd Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 1575] 0 1575 2777 578 11 0 0 xenstored Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 1582] 0 1582 21173 488 15 0 0 xenconsoled Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 1586] 0 1586 42174 1749 50 0 0 qemu-system-x86 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 1591] 0 1591 2384 592 9 0 0 cpuload Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 2786] 0 2786 22264 835 17 0 0 emhttp Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 2787] 0 2787 1618 434 8 0 0 agetty Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 2788] 0 2788 1618 431 7 0 0 agetty Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 2789] 0 2789 1618 435 8 0 0 agetty Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 2790] 0 2790 1618 423 8 0 0 agetty Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 2791] 0 2791 1618 412 8 0 0 agetty Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 2792] 0 2792 1618 436 8 0 0 agetty Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 2862] 61 2862 8613 778 22 0 0 avahi-daemon Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 2863] 61 2863 8547 60 21 0 0 avahi-daemon Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 2871] 0 2871 3186 408 11 0 0 avahi-dnsconfd Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 2941] 0 2941 72056 472 21 0 0 shfs Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 2951] 0 2951 291894 1821 48 0 0 shfs Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 3014] 0 3014 206642 6616 67 0 0 docker Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 3071] 0 3071 3000 628 10 0 0 rc.snap Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 3072] 0 3072 2998 626 10 0 0 rc.snap Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 3084] 0 3084 1631 386 8 0 0 inotifywait Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 3085] 0 3085 1631 365 8 0 0 inotifywait Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 3086] 0 3086 2998 193 10 0 0 rc.snap Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 3087] 0 3087 3000 195 10 0 0 rc.snap Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 3702] 0 3702 28047 3168 28 0 0 xl Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 3848] 0 3848 28047 3166 27 0 0 xl Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 4003] 0 4003 28047 3173 27 0 0 xl Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 4187] 0 4187 28047 3205 27 0 0 xl Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 4377] 0 4377 44973 3206 29 0 0 xl Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 6545] 0 6545 2420 651 9 0 0 mount.ntfs-3g Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [23346] 0 23346 8437 1279 21 0 0 my_init Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [23358] 0 23358 49 4 3 0 0 runsvdir Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [23359] 0 23359 44 4 3 0 0 runsv Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [23360] 0 23360 44 3 3 0 0 runsv Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [23361] 0 23361 44 4 3 0 0 runsv Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [23363] 0 23363 16469 412 36 0 0 syslog-ng Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [23364] 0 23364 7111 61 17 0 0 cron Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [28062] 0 28062 731509 11989 328 0 0 qemu-system-x86 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [29459] 0 29459 669384 11078 237 0 0 qemu-system-x86 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [31221] 0 31221 705257 11875 183 0 0 qemu-system-x86 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 537] 1000 537 76189 6555 148 0 0 smbd Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 4059] 0 4059 76704 4035 145 0 0 smbd Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [18430] 99 18430 110518 174 30 0 0 btsync Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [12671] 0 12671 20727 476 14 0 0 apcupsd Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [ 4064] 0 4064 697096 11146 193 0 0 qemu-system-x86 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [26722] 0 26722 626644 8252 183 0 0 qemu-system-x86 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [10468] 0 10468 601944 9954 169 0 0 qemu-system-x86 Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [10574] 0 10574 25565 674 23 0 0 xl Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [10880] 99 10880 76734 6115 149 0 0 smbd Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [31860] 1000 31860 76990 6855 148 0 0 smbd Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: [17371] 0 17371 3334 844 11 0 0 smartctl Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: Out of memory: Kill process 28062 (qemu-system-x86) score 29 or sacrifice child Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: Killed process 28062 (qemu-system-x86) total-vm:2926036kB, anon-rss:36548kB, file-rss:11408kB Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower avahi-daemon[2862]: Withdrawing workstation service for vif11.0-emu. Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: xenbr0: port 12(vif11.0-emu) entered disabled state Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: device vif11.0-emu left promiscuous mode Feb 14 21:33:01 Tower kernel: xenbr0: port 12(vif11.0-emu) entered disabled state Feb 14 21:33:03 Tower php: /usr/bin/docker start LogitechMediaServer Feb 14 21:33:04 Tower kernel: nf_conntrack: falling back to vmalloc. Feb 14 21:33:04 Tower kernel: nf_conntrack: falling back to vmalloc. Feb 14 21:33:04 Tower kernel: device veth90e73bc entered promiscuous mode Feb 14 21:33:04 Tower avahi-daemon[2862]: Withdrawing workstation service for vetha2e80c0. Feb 14 21:33:04 Tower kernel: eth0: renamed from vetha2e80c0 Feb 14 21:33:04 Tower kernel: docker0: port 1(veth90e73bc) entered forwarding state Feb 14 21:33:04 Tower kernel: docker0: port 1(veth90e73bc) entered forwarding state Feb 14 21:33:04 Tower php: LogitechMediaServer Feb 14 21:33:04 Tower php: Feb 14 21:33:05 Tower kernel: kworker/u16:5 invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x2000d0, order=2, oom_score_adj=0 Feb 14 21:33:05 Tower kernel: kworker/u16:5 cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0 Feb 14 21:33:05 Tower kernel: CPU: 4 PID: 17484 Comm: kworker/u16:5 Not tainted 3.17.4-unRAID #1 Feb 14 21:33:05 Tower kernel: Hardware name: Supermicro X10SL7-F/X10SL7-F, BIOS 2.00 04/24/2014 Feb 14 21:33:05 Tower kernel: Workqueue: khelper __call_usermodehelper Feb 14 21:33:05 Tower kernel: 0000000000000000 ffff880000b0ba00 ffffffff815e4145 ffff88000b988810 Feb 14 21:33:05 Tower kernel: ffff880000b0ba88 ffffffff815e0bc1 ffffffff8107f1a2 0000000000000000 Feb 14 21:33:05 Tower kernel: ffffffff815e9979 000000000020073b ffff880000b0ba60 ffffffff81099a70 Feb 14 21:33:05 Tower kernel: Call Trace: Feb 14 21:33:05 Tower kernel: [] dump_stack+0x45/0x56 Feb 14 21:33:05 Tower kernel: [] dump_header+0x7a/0x1df Feb 14 21:33:05 Tower kernel: [] ? ktime_get+0x49/0x87 Feb 14 21:33:05 Tower kernel: [] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x50/0x60 Feb 14 21:33:05 Tower kernel: [] ? delayacct_end+0x50/0x59 Feb 14 21:33:05 Tower kernel: [] oom_kill_process+0x6d/0x328 Feb 14 21:33:05 Tower kernel: [] ? oom_badness+0xb0/0xf9 Feb 14 21:33:05 Tower kernel: [] out_of_memory+0x40c/0x425

Just tried this. Backing up to a SNAP mounted USB disk, around 400GB of files. UI keeps saying Disconnected from Backup Engine and the server end crashing and restarting. I checked the memory settings and they are defaulted to 128m and 1024m. I tried increasing but made no difference. If I drop the backup set to around 200GB, 50k files, then it seems to work fine. Which is the best log to look at?

config2 does look as though pcnet32 is already enabled. I was following my nose somewhat, so maybe I did not copy the config file across correctly in the 1st place. Certainly the 1st time I tried to boot into unraid, it could not see the ext3 filesystem, and once this was fixed, it did not see the network. Just thinking out loud here: In order to make installation easier, what would the feasibility be of creating a package that could run on the stock unraid ram/flash drive, containing the correct kernel headers + source, the "make" program, perl, pam, anything else required, and a wrapper script to run the vmware installer, and then package up the results into the onetime and realtime packages? So all someone needs to do is download this package, and the vmware install.

Given this a go today... and now have VMware server 2 working on my production unRAID ! I built a Slackware dev environment as a VM, added unRAID to it, installed VMWare server 2, created the packages, and transferred to my production unRAID. Here are a few helper notes I made below for installation using unRAID 4.4.2, and Slackware 12.2. Hope this helps somebody. This was the 1st time I have recompiled a kernel. I would not have succeeded without the posts and wiki notes referenced below! Next steps for me are probably to boost the ram to 4gb, and replace the celeron with a core2duo. I want to run 3 VMs (Homeseer+Squeezecentre, SageTV, Gallery2) on it so I can cut down to 1 machine on 27x7. The VMDKs are on the cache drive at the moment which is a failure point, so I need to work out whether to move them onto the array, or put a cron script in to periodically suspend the VMs and copy them elsewhere. Building the dev environment. -Built within VMware workstation 6.5.1 -Created New VM with "Other Linux 2.6.x Kernel" option with 15GB disk and 512 ram. -The wizard provides a SCSI disk by default. I deleted this disk and set up an IDE disk of 15GB -Connected the virtual CD device to the Slackware 12.2 DVD ISO I had previously downloaded. -Booted into the ISO, and ran CFDISK. Created a 1GB linux swap partition and an approx 14GB linux partition -Ran setup and did full install, formatted disk as ext3. -Set root password so that I could use putty as an SSH client to allow me to easily copy and paste from instructions in this thread. -Do not try to install VMware tools, as cannot have VMWare tools and VMWare Server on the same machine. Adding Unraid to the new Slackware 12.2 install (ref post http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2937.0) -Step 2 can be reduced to "cd /usr/src". Wgets are not required as slackware 12.2 is already the correct version for unraid 4.4.2 -Step 3 should be modified for version 4.4.2 to "wget http://download.lime-technology.com/unRAID%20Server%204.4.2.zip" -Step 4 not required as we already have a full and correct install. -Step 5 need to have copied the config2 file attached to the post into your /usr/src directory prior to running this step - I did this by using "vi" to create a text file and then paste the contents of config2 into putty. Could also do it by uploading to a convenient webserver, and using wget. Or by mounting a share as described later. Need to rename the file as ".config" -Step 6 needed modification of menuconfig as per step 8 on this wiki entry http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_unRAID_on_a_full_Slackware_distro#Modify_the_unRAID_config to add in ext3 and the ide drive config. I did not do this to start with and ended up with kernel panics because it could not find a file system. NOTE Also needed to add "pcnet32" network device driver otherwise the unRAID did not see the network. -Step 8 my vm hard disk was /dev/hda2. It took a couple of goes to get a working kernel config. I had to run "lilo -v" each time I re-compiled before I could boot into it. -After all this, I could boot into my unRAID dev environment. Installing VMWare Server onto the unRAID dev environment -Followed instructions on this post http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=862.msg24297#msg24297 -Step 3 I downloaded vmware and put the .gz file onto a share on tower. Then I mounted that share using this command "mount -t smbfs -o username=root,password=**** //tower/Share /mnt/tower" on the dev environment and copied it across. Need to do "mkdir /mnt/tower" beforehand, and I think the share names are case sensitive. I could then "cd /mnt/tower" to browse to my share and copy files over. Copying the packages to production unRAID -Step 9 Copied the created packages to unRAID by mounting the cache drive with "mount -t smbfs -o username=root,password=**** //tower/cache /mnt/towercache" after creating /mnt/towercache.