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Hi, I've done a NMAP vulners scan on my network and picking up loads of vulnerabilities in tomcat 8.5.73. I noticed an update was made in github to automatically use the latest buid of tomcat. I've deleted my guacamole docker and redeployed, but it is still building with this version of tomcat. I believe 8.5.83 is now available. Any hints on how I can get it updated? Thanks, CC

Hi Guys, Don't suppose any of you have come across this issue? I've started to shut my server down in the evening when i'm not using it (power costs are getting out of hand) and Crashplan starts "Syncronising Block Information" every morning. The backups don't run while this is in progres. When it eventually finishes, it just about time to shut the server down again. Do you know if there is any way to change this behavior? Maybe a way to cleanly shut down CP before shutting down the server, or some configuration option that I'm missing?

Hi Guys, As a 13TB Crashplan user, I am not the happiest of bunnies after this announcement. I've had a look around at possible alternatives. My requirements are: Very large, preferably unlimited storage. Don't want to break the bank (about £10/Month) File versioning. I'm busy trying out a combination of Duplicati (available in community applications) and Jottacloud, and so far it looks promising. I'm testing Jottacloud with the free 5GB account, but if it works I'll be upgrading. I must say, I'm not looking forward to uploading 13TB again, last time it took 7 Months!!!

Hi WeeboTech, I've actually not been using my virtual ESXi machines as much as I thought I would, but I did get them working. There was a bit of messing around to hide some cpu features. <cpu mode='host-model'> <model fallback='forbid'>Nehalem</model> <topology sockets='1' cores='4' threads='2'/> </cpu> And also some extra qemu commands. <qemu:commandline> <qemu:arg value='-machine'/> <qemu:arg value='vmport=off'/> <qemu:arg value='-enable-kvm'/> </qemu:commandline> There was also no vfio drivers for ESXi, so I had to fall back on e1000 nics. Overall they work pretty well, but as I say, I've not been using them as much as I thought I would (I just use KVM to do virtualization). Thanks, CC

Hi Jonp, Sorry for not getting back to you sooner, I hadn't turned notifications on. I'd be happy for this to be featured in your blog. I've actually made some changes over the last couple of months (details in my signature). I've getting into gaming more than I thought I would and not had any performance problems. Thanks, CC

Hi Mate, I'm a torrent fan myself, I'm really pleased with sickrage. I'm in the UK so need to use a vpn to find the actual torrents then pass them to a seperate vm running transmission. I gave usenet a try, but didn't like the fact that you need to fork out for a seperate indexer.

Thanks! I use Kodi at the moment for viewing media (local via HDMI - don't have much of a need for streaming at the moment), I tried plex on my old media centre (old dell laptop) about a year or so ago and didn't much like it - I might give it a try again now that I've got a bit of horsepower and my media collection is a bit better organised (Thanks to Sickrage and Couchpotato) The dual Xeons have a cpu mark of 9679, so I would think 4x 1080p streams would be possible - just a guess though, I've never tried it.

At last my project is almost done... My poor little Microserver was getting pushed to it's absolute capacity (N54L with 4GB Ram running 2 Ubuntu, 1 Freebsd & 1 Windows7 VMs as well as the owncloud & Guacamole dockers). Needless to say it was a bit sluggish. Inspired by this post http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=40349.0 I started to do a bit of googling. There is a very good blog on hacking the z800 motherboard into a non-standard case and getting it to run on an ATX PSU http://andybrown.me.uk/wk/2014/11/01/z800/ This is my kit list. Nanoxia Deep Silence 6 Case HP Z800 Workstation Motherboard (Revision 2 - so no X56xx Xeons for me ) Matched Pair Intel Xeon X5570 2.93GHz Transcend 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC1333 PC3-10600 1.5V ECC DIMM ATX 24P + IDE 4P Molex to 18P + 10P Converter 1GB XFX HD 5450 Silent GPU 2X Zalman CNPS10X-Optima Shark's Fin Blade CPU Cooler 850W NZXT Hale82, Hybrid Modular, 80 PLUS Bronze EVGA SuperNOVA 1.3KW Gold PSU (The 850W wouldn't start it so it got RMAed, also the first EVGA was a DOA) 5 Port Belkin F5U220qjLI USB 2.0 PCI Card 256GB SanDisk X110 Enterprise Class 24x7, 2.5" SSD I also transferred the following from my MicroServer. 3x HGST 4TB 7.2K SATA 2x Samsung 1.5TB 5.4K SATA The physical build was quite challenging - especially drilling the motherboard tray, balancing it on a couple of M4 nuts and washers (used as spacers) and getting the PCI slots lined up with the back of the case. Moving this case is also a nightmare - it is massive. I read reviews before I got it and they all said it was huge, but I didn't really realise how big until it was in front of me - it's heavy too. Not fun carrying it down 2 flights of stairs fully built. The first thing I did when if finally came to life was put a copy of Windows 8.1 on it leave it running prime95 overnight to make sure it wouldn't die. I then ran a passmark performance test - 1511 (the GPU let it down a bit - but no matter I only want this GPU for Kodi) I then put the Unraid trial on it and built a virtual Windows 8.1 VM with all the virtio drivers (with only 6 GB of ram and the first 2 cores from each CPU) - passmark this time of - 1320 I'm happy enough with that. I stopped docker and all the VMs on my Microserver, copied everything from my HDD cache to the array, moved the disks to my z800 frankenserver, put my licenced usb key in and fired it up. It worked!!! Just needed to change the cache drive to the new SSD and start the array. Copied the VM's and docker image to cache and started the VM's. The only problem I had here was a message from docker telling me to recreate the Image because of something in one of the Betas - I did this and redownloaded the dockers, pointed them to their old config directory and they all worked. I built a kodiubuntu VM and passed it the GPU (so easy with the GUI now!), passed it a couple of 9p mount points and that worked too!! I couldn't believe how easy and awesome unraid is!! This may seem like overkill for a nas/mediacentre, but I have big plans for the future... I've got some more memory on the way (48GB worth!) and I'm keeping my eye on ebay for any decent graphics cards for reasonable prices. I want to build a Windows machine for a bit of light gaming and get this - I want to virtualise ESXi inside KVM, I've read that it can be done and it will mean that I can get rid of my old IBM x3650 that I use to lab things for work. Wish me luck, here are some pics and screenshots. My initial testing, after spending a couple of hours tracing a fault with the custom power cable. The physical windows 8.1 passmark. The virtual windows 8.1 passmark (only 6GB of ram and half the available cores) After tidying the cables and mounting all the drives. Up and running. VMs and Docker apps happily chugging away. I've really enjoyed this build and looking forward to completing it soon. If anyone has any suggestions on running ESXi as a KVM VM I would be very interested in any pointers.

I think you're the first person ive ever inspired! IF you want to repay me, buy double of everything and i'll PM you my address! On a more serious note, id be interested to see how you modify the motherboard tray to accommodate the non standard mobo mounting holes. Thats the only bit i think i'd struggle with. Im still debating the Z800 or looking at a Z820\supermicro board and going dual socket 1150... No problem, I'll definitely do a build log. Still waiting for the case and cables, got everything else. Then need to find time

Hi Guys, Just want to say that OP really inspired me - I've started gathering bits to do a similar build. Under the guise of an "essential upgrade" to get it past the other half Nanoxia Deep Silence 6 Rev. B Anthracite, £200.77 - Ebay HP Z800 Workstation System Motherboard, £86.13 - Ebay Matched Pair Intel Xeon X5570 2.93GHz, £40.40 - Ebay Transcend 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC1333 PC3-10600 1.5V ECC DIMM, £25.00 - Ebay ATX 24P + IDE 4P Molex to 18P + 10P Converter, £6.00 - ali express 1GB XFX HD 5450 Silent GPU, £19.85 - Scan 2X Zalman CNPS10X-Optima Shark's Fin Blade CPU Cooler, £40.75 - Scan 850W NZXT Hale82, Hybrid Modular, 80 PLUS Bronze, £69.98 - Scan 5 Port Belkin F5U220qjLI USB 2.0 PCI Card, £2.99 - Scan 256GB SanDisk X110 Enterprise Class 24x7, 2.5" SSD, £69.58 - Scan Looking forward to a bit dremel and drill fun to make it all fit.

Try editing your XML, I use this: <metadata> <vmtemplate name="Custom" icon="/mnt/disks/HGST_VMs/MediaGrabber/MediaGrabber.png" os="ubuntu"/> </metadata> It works for me.

Thanks, I've updated my original post.

Hi Everyone, This is my first post, so be gentle on me I've been using Unraid for the best part of 2 years now, and I love it. After moving to v6 and adopting Xen, I was even more impressed (I had been using the Virtualbox plugin to run a few VMs in v5 and found it really unpredictable) I got a bit of a fright when I saw that Xen was being dropped, and reluctantly started to migrate to KVM - I'm glad I did, it does everything that I need and after quite a bit of google-fu I managed to get a working process to backup running VMs... I put together this script in Powershell, mainly because I can find my way around PS. I've got very little experience with shell scripts and my 'Nix skills leave a bit to be desired. A quick summary of what it does: It will read the configuration from a CSV file. Things like the VM name, the disk path, how many days, weeks, months to keep backups. It will then use plink to: ssh to unraid and take a snapshot of a running VM. Make a copy of the disk file Recommit the snapshot back into the running VM and delete the snapshot. It will then use 7Zip to compress the disk file and save it to an archive. If there are more than the specified Days,Weeks,Months of backups in the archive it will delete the oldest on the the set. It requires either p7zip to be installed on unraid, or 7zip installed on the windows machine it is running on (I've commented out the options for the windows 7Zip) I got the 64 bit version 9.20.1 of p7zip from slackware.org.uk and installed it like this. wget -O http://slackware.org.uk/slacky/slackware64-14.1/system/p7zip/9.20.1/p7zip-9.20.1-x86_64-1sl.txz #move it to /boot/extra to install on boot - Thanks Trurl mv p7zip-9.20.1-x86_64-1sl.txz /boot/extra/ installpkg p7zip-9.20.1-x86_64-1sl.txz I've left my configuration as an example in the CSV file, you would need to change it to your own configuration. I also had some trouble with plink to start off with, if you run it from cmd and open a connection to the unraid box it will save the ssh keys and work from then on. This is still a work in progress, and I'll update it as and when I get time (a rare commodity at the moment) I'm using: HP Microserver N54L 4GB RAM (tempted to up to 16, but don't really need it yet) 3x HGST 4TB 7200 RPM disks (one is parity) 2x Samsung 1.5TB 5400 RPM disks (slowly replacing these) 2x HGST 500GB 7200 RPM disks in BTRFS Cache pool I am open to, and would welcome any feedback and suggestions. Thanks, CC backup_kvm_v0.3.ps1.zip