Cobra

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  1. Yes, I have tested going back and forth between snapshots. Everything appears to be working fine. I see your point how it would probably be a struggle to get something comparable in the native GUI. Half of the battle is just getting it updated to correct version and setup with this. That is why I thought a decent workaround would be a docker to manage it though VNC with a GUI. An example that I have seen would be the Filebot-GUI docker which does something similar and provides a GUI to that app. Maybe someday I will do this, I am still learning and a noob in that regard to creating dockers. It is certainly fun learning it though.
  2. I have been on a quest to get a working snapshot solution via a GUI as this is the last feature I really needed that is not currently available. I have been successful in getting an external connection to the host via virt-manager on a Linux Mint 17.2 machine. I have tested snapshots and all seems to be working. Is anyone aware of any potential limitations in this scenario? So far this solution seems fast and very pleased with managing VM's in this way. I wonder if leveraging this somehow in the system is possible, maybe a docker of this with vnc connection to it preconfigured. If you simply try to add virt-manager via the software manager the current version is at 0.9 in Mint, this version does not have support for snapshots. I have followed these steps to install the latest 1.2.1 version which does contain support for snapshots. http://virt-manager.org $ wget -q -O - http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add - $ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu trusty-getdeb apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list' $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install virt-manager Adding the Connection: Use Method TCP Main screen that shows all VM's (I only currently have 1) Snapshots (far right button visible with updated virt-manager)
  3. the NVMe drive is not showing up in unRAID at all, does not show up under tools/systemdevices from the gui. It is working fine, currently have VMware ESXI 6.0 loaded on it. I think I am going to go down the path of running unRAID virtualized. I really need to use snapshots in KVM, hopefully that will make it in as a feature at some point. Until that time I will just use VMware.
  4. I had similar issues getting up and running but my Asus GTX970 Turbo works fine now in both Windows 2008 Server R2 and Linux Mint 17.2. I originally did have HyperV enabled on Win VM and also saw the error43 message until starting with that disabled. It also may have been a problem that I was attempting to update drivers over RDP instead of the GPU passthrough, sort of forgot as I have never used that before.
  5. Hello, I just wanted to provide some feedback on my recent experience with unRAID 6.1 and converting this machine into a dedicated unRAID box. Background: I have been following unRAID since the 4.x versions but never made the move to embrace it. Once 6.1 was out and I saw what Dockers were capable of I had to make the move. I really like the ability to keep data/dockers on same physical hardware so an additional trip across network is not needed. The well rounded feature set of unRAID makes a Synology NAS look like a toy. Before this build I was running the Win10 tech preview on it and decided I did not want to run an OS where I have to constantly monitor the WinUpdates for the snoopy ones to block. Before Like most people who make the move I had an existing solution in place and that was a Drobo b1200i iSCSI 12 drive device. This has worked fine for a year or so and I eventually got tired of hearing the fans in this thing run while I am trying to work all day in the next room. This also uses 200+ watts just sitting there. (the drive spin-up time seems much longer than unRAID so I never used that feature to avoid the lag. The enclosure got damaged in shipping when I bought it and had to make wedges so the drives would stay seated properly. The thing is turned off now and never been happier with it After System Specs: Motherboard: Asus X99 Deluxe CPU: Intel i7 5690X PSU: Rosewill Quark 1200W GPU: (2) Asus GTX970 Turbo Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws DDR4 2666Mhz 32GB Cooling: NZXT Kraken X61 Water cooling Case: NZXT Phantom 530 White Full Tower Drives: (1) 16GB Verbatim Store N Go flash drive (1) Intel 750 Series 2.5" 400GB Pcie NVM express drive (currently has Win10 installed, does not show up as a device at all but I see it listed during boot) Not sure what I need to do, maybe format elsewhere to remove win boot mgr. (2) Seagate 4TB (1 parity, 1 array) (2) WD 4TB Blacks (array) (2) Samsung 840 EVO 120GB SSD (cache pool) My Docker Experience Prior to this build I have never used a Docker before and was really surprised of the doors that can open. I have not had any trouble with the process and the Community Applications section is fantastic. The one thing I wish Dockers had more of is some way to see status in the GUI of resource consumption. I have looked around at other docker solutions and very impressed with Rancher and the interface there. I wish unRAID had a similar GUI for Dockers. I see there are Rancher dockers available in docker hub, I wonder if that could work with the unRAID dockers for management. http://rancher.com/rancher/ Favorite tip: With heavy use of Docker and a KVM stored on 120GB it seems that space goes fast. I had originally set the docker image to use 10GB and ran out of space. Someone on forums suggested a trick to expand it easily with GUI only and it worked perfect. I turned docker off, kept image name the same, put in new size of 60GB and like magic I had more space without moving the existing Dockers around. Thanks! KVM Feedback I was previously running VMware with a VMDK I wanted to convert. Like most people it seems VirtIO drivers always cause some headache. Forum posts here were enough to get me going. I installed VirtIO drivers in my VMware VM, uninstalled VMware tools, and did the emu-img convert to .qcow2 format of a Win2008 Server R2 VM and it worked perfectly in KVM. I assigned one of the GTX970 GPU's to the VM and it worked like magic, GPU passthrough worked, drivers working in the server OS, I did not have to modify any config files to do this. The only thing I did not see how to do is assign both of my GPU's to Windows. Do you know what happens when you forget to click the box for USB keyboard to be passed to the VM and you click Ctl-Alt-Delete when looking at login screen onscreen? unRAID comes down instead with an ungraceful shutdown. I suppose nothing can be done to detect that key sequence and prompt for Y or N to shutdown. The one feature that I am missing that I really need is snapshots, it sounds like that is possible through command line though right? Has anyone been able to run virt-manager on a separate machine and get it working with snapshots? Thanks in advance I have been telling all of my friends/family who are looking for a NAS to go this direction.
  6. Problem solved on the channels.xml creation. I was the dummy. I did not notice but it was creating the file in the webgrabplus root and I had only kept checking the data folder as it created one there too but it only had the dummy channel and not my actual channels. whew. Edit: Getting EPG data went smoothly, it generated the guide.xml file with my channels. I selected the tv_grab_wg module in the configuration. I was able to map the EPG Source to the proper channel that is now showing up as an option. The EPG showed up after restarting TVH. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.
  7. Thank you for the prompt response. Yes I have uncommented the line, there was a line above that I was not sure if it needed to be uncomment as well, I tried both ways and did not have success. *url_index.headers {host=dd.schedulesdirect.org} url_index.headers {credentials=mysdusername,mypass} I did not see an internal EPG grabber that would work. I am in the US and only see OpenTV, VIASAT, UK Freeview/Freesat, and EIT: DVB Grabber. None of these options looked like it would work for SchedulesDirect in the US. Edit: sorry, I found it, I was not selecting the module drop down. I will try this out.
  8. Hello, I am trying to get Schedules Direct with the WebgrabPlusplus docker working in the TVH 4.0 docker. I have read all 25 pages of this thread and see a couple people have had success with this on pages 14-17 but have a few questions. I have a Schedules direct account and made my lineup (only 6 channels or so). I have edit the schedulesdirect.ini file to uncomment the line and enter my username and password. I am trying to get the channels.xml file to create properly but so far it is only creating the file with the dummy channel that is in the Webgrabconfig file. I have everything mapped properly with the containers going to the same /data location. Webgrabplus does create the file though. From Webgrabplus ini file <channels> <channel update="i" site="schedulesdirect.org" site_id="" xmltv_id="dummy">dummy</channel> </channels> the schedules direct ini file at the bottom ** ##### CHANNEL FILE CREATION (only to create the xxx-channel.xml file) ** ** @auto_xml_channel_start index_site_id.scrub {regex||(<station .*?</station>)||} scope.range {(channellist)|end} index_site_channel.modify {substring(type=regex)|'index_site_id' "<name>(.*?)</name>"} index_site_id.modify {substring(type=regex)|'index_site_id' "<station id=\'([0-9]*)\'>"} index_site_id.modify {cleanup(removeduplicates=equal,100 link="index_site_channel")} end_scope ** @auto_xml_channel_end Log file from Webgrabplus docker after it is started WebGrab+Plus/w MDB & REX Postprocess -- version 1.54.6/0.01 Jan van Straaten Francis de Paemeleere many thanks to Paul Weterings and all the contributing users ------------------------------------------------------------ file /data/guide.xml not found, creating a new one .. update requested for - 1 - out of - 1 - channels for 1 day(s) update mode - set per individual channel i=index .=same c=change g=gab r=replace n=new dummy updating, using site SCHEDULESDIRECT.ORG, mode full i job finished .. done in 0 seconds The created guide.xml file <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <tv generator-info-name="WebGrab+Plus/w MDB & REX Postprocess -- version 1.54.6/0.01 -- Jan van Straaten" generator-info-url="http://www.webgrabplus.com"> <channel id="dummy"> <display-name lang="en">dummy</display-name> <url>http://www.schedulesdirect.org</url> </channel> </tv> Sorry for the lengthy post but I have created an xml file manually with mc2xml app and placed it in the data folder as well. How does the TVH 4.0 EPG grabber pick this up? I only see an option for xmltv as shown below but notice it gives a bind error at the bottom when trying to hit save. I see on the schedules direct site where the xmltv id is available for my lineup, it looks like I could almost create the channels.xml manually with that but not sure what to use for siteid assume that would be a url to specific channel. Did you guys crack open the docker image and manually add the tvgrab script? If so any help is appreciated on that part. The detail provided here should be enough to see where I am in this process.