JonathanM

You can already do that somewhat by assigning your own spin-up group(s) and having your media isolated by type. Yep, and if spin up groups as they are defined now are removed, then having the OPTION to turn on a user share group spin up would replace that function. I never suggested that spinning up all drives in a share would be a default setting.

How about replacing it with a new feature related to shares rather than hardware ports? IOW, if you check this setting on a share, then as soon as a file in the share is accessed, all drives that participate in that share are immediately spun up as well? That setting combined with spin down timers could cover almost any scenario I can think of.

When you stop the array, does the VM save state and then resume when the array is restarted automatically?

https://github.com/theone11/virtualbox_plugin/raw/master/virtualbox-package-2015.06.07.tar.gz just downloaded fine for me. Can you ping github.com from the unraid local console or telnet successfully?

Can you connect if you open a VPN tunnel to the remote site?

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=3146.0

I just did this move with a cut/paste over the weekend and it was instant. No copying of any files across my Windows PC or the network. Not sure of the "behind the scenes" details of how it works, but it does. If the source and destination are on the same physical drive, the move will be nearly instantaneous, as only the directory listing has changed, the data has not moved. If you are intending to vacate a drive by copying the data to a different drive, it will not be quick, it will move at whatever speed your network connection and drives can handle. Most peoples parity protected unraid systems are drive speed limited instead of network limited, so there is very little difference between doing a drive to drive copy over the network or locally.

Webgui is not restartable after it is killed. It will either start responding after you kill the offending process, or you will have to restart the server.

To expand on this just a bit, if limetech published a list of approved hardware, and the software "just worked" on that specific list, and any other hardware was supported only by the community, would that help or hurt? For advanced features like sleep, fan, and temperature monitoring, that approach is almost required. As it is right now, limetech pretty much only supports features that are common to 90% of hardware available, and the the "extra" features like sleep and temp are left to unnofficial addons that may or may not work seamlessly. To almarma, which approach would you prefer? Would you rather be told that unraid will only work fully if you buy a specific motherboard?

Go back into this plugin and hit the support link for those applications cant It's at my friends home, the server i'm trying to help him out but remotely Free teamviewer session?

Many people have cache only shares which keep the icon yellow constantly. I would be ok with changing the behaviour to ignore cache only shares, and only show yellow if there were unmoved files that should be moved with the next mover action.

Bingo. That was the main reason to make the change, IIRC.

For those that choose to remain on the single unprotected drive cache model, I'm afraid the constant appearance of the yellow triangle for even normal array operations may cause a "boy who cried wolf" situation. I'm not sure of a good way to solve this. A single cache drive with files yet to be moved, or cache only shares, is "normal" and shouldn't need to be investigated, but is currently yellow. Low disk space on the cache drive, or files that should have been moved but weren't because of some error, those conditions need to be investigated.

I'm hearing multiple conflicting opinions on whether the key file must be the only one. Pretty sure I saw somewhere in the V6 development that you could put all your owned keys in the config folder, and unraid would find and use the one that matched the current flash GUID. I haven't tried it, but it would be good to find out for sure.

Unclear what you mean by reading the disk, the current contents will be completely erased. Any new content should be able to be read by unRaid V5 as long as it is written to a ReiserFS file system, regardless of partition alignment. Switching partition locations (jumper or alignment) or changing FS from XFS to Reiser will erase current content.

But if you do that, then having a red ball drive is impossible. :'( How about red being pear shaped? That way when a drive fails, it's gone pear shaped? ;D http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pear+shaped

I'm using the same webserver plugin, and I just turned on authentication and ssl in the webserver instead of using the phpvirtualbox authentication. Makes it much easier as I just have a single ssl login to get to several reverse proxied hosts as well as the phpvirtualbox.

Which webserver are you using to host phpvirtualbox?

This is the part that took me a few days to get through my head. I had come up with great ways to empty a disk, thinking it would save time, but it really doesn't fit. Thankfully, the steps can be separated, and many can be (have to be) completed with the array up and available, so there is no reason to force it into a single outage window. The server is still available while parity is being built. It may be a little slower, but still usable. The only time the server would be completely down for an extended period of time is if you add a new drive that hasn't been precleared, and the array is offline until the clearing process is complete.

Good luck with that.

I like it. You could start a real "Who's on First" routine with that.

I STRONGLY recommend not modifying Joe. L's script without his direct permission and control. It got ugly the last time someone did. If you wish to rewrite the preclear script from scratch so it is your own work and name it something else, there will be no conflict.

Not without Joe L.'s permission. (author of preclear script).

Install the virtualbox guest drivers in the VM's OS. Figured as much, Thanks. Have you ever come across a situation where you were unable to install the addons? For example while you're trying to install an OS and there's an option you're unable to select with your keyboard or mouse. Curious is all. Nope. Keyboard always worked correctly for me, and mouse is typically just scaled funny. If you move it around the screen enough you can get the pattern and click where needed, or just use the keyboard. I have never met a mouse only dialog box in an OS install screen, only in third party software. Use tab, space, arrow keys, enter, and shift in some combination and you can get about anything done in any UI.

Install the virtualbox guest drivers in the VM's OS.