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Thanks @jonathanm Yeah that's a good idea. I will check that out. So i guess you tweak the file size on the duplicati end yes? Any tips? ?

Hi I have put together a video guide for setting up nextcloud that maybe helpful for some users. Following this video there will be one (in a few days) on setting up the linuxserver letsencrypt container for use as a reverse proxy. Hope its useful...

Hi guys. This is a tutorial on how to install Nextcloud as a Docker Container on unRAID. It shows how to set it up using the excellent container by the linuxserver guys. It shows how to use it with a mariaDB database to greatly improve performance. There will be another video in a few days showing how to use with a reverse proxy. Hope its useful.

Heres the next part in the pfSense series added to the top of this thread post Part 8 Open NAT for XBOX ONE and PS4

Heres the next part in the pfSense series added to the top of this thread post. Part 7 - Firewall rules, Portforwarding/NAT, Aliases and UPnp

Hi @AranethonIf you want to download torrents then use delugevpn. Trying to use proxy via privoxy through the sabvpn will not work for deluge as far as i know but @binhex will know for sure. Using the privoxy for use with sonarr and the other 'arrs' will work fine. If you access the container for sonarr etc and run "curl icanhazip.com" it will not return the vpn ip. This is expected. This is because you are running this from the base image and not from within the app itself (sonarr , radarr). These are configured to use proxy within the app itself and not the container. To check all is working then enable the proxy in sonarr point to sabvpn/deluge and do a manual search. You will find results. Shut down the sabvpn/delugevpn whichever you are using then try a search again. Nothing will show.

Thanks @SSD glad you liked the guide. I am not sure how it would go from VM to physical with the activation. Getting the VM from a vdisk to a physical disk would be easy but the problem is the windows would have been activated with the uuid generated by the unraid template manager. So then when loaded as bare metal the uuid would then be from the MB. So it would need to be activated again then the uuid copied back from bare metal to the VM XML. I am not sure if windows would allow the activating with the new uuid from the bare metal. I will have a go sometime and see what happens...

This video is a tutorial on how to dual boot a bare metal windows 10 with unRAID. Then when in unRAID being able to run the same windows install as a VM. Often windows will not like being installed as bare metal and a VM due to its activation on the physical and virtual hardware. However, if we copy the UUID from the bare metal install and then use that in the VM xml then activation isn't a problem. Hope its useful!

A few new pfsense videos added at top of post. Part four, five and six.

Awesome work @binhex thanks for making this container. Only had a moment to have look but from what I have seen a great improvement over the previous one. Love that we can manage compressed files in this. I think I will try and make a new video on this new container when I can.

Please try enabling more cores as there is only 1 thread in the xml you posted. Try maybe this and see if you can install. There are no single core single thread cpus in a real mac that will run osx high sierra. So this could be your problem as to why it will not install. Your cpu is dual core 4 threads so try using this edited top part of your xml here. <domain type='kvm'> <name>OSX High Sierra</name> <uuid>c6a1ef6f-3cc9-4545-d81e-a4585879fa85</uuid> <metadata> <vmtemplate xmlns="unraid" name="Linux" icon="linux.png" os="linux"/> </metadata> <memory unit='KiB'>4194304</memory> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>4194304</currentMemory> <memoryBacking> <nosharepages/> </memoryBacking> <vcpu placement='static'>4</vcpu> <cputune> <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='0'/> <vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='1'/> <vcpupin vcpu='2' cpuset='2'/> <vcpupin vcpu='3' cpuset='3'/> </cputune> <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-q35-2.9'>hvm</type> <loader readonly='yes' type='pflash'>/usr/share/qemu/ovmf-x64/OVMF_CODE-pure-efi.fd</loader> <nvram>/etc/libvirt/qemu/nvram/c6a1ef6f-3cc9-4545-d81e-a4585879fa85_VARS-pure-efi.fd</nvram> <boot dev='hd'/> </os> <features> <acpi/> <apic/> </features> <cpu mode='host-passthrough' check='none'> <topology sockets='1' cores='4' threads='1'/> </cpu> <clock offset='utc'> <timer name='rtc' tickpolicy='catchup'/> <timer name='pit' tickpolicy='delay'/> <timer name='hpet' present='no'/> </clock> Try both with and without this line <topology sockets='1' cores='4' threads='1'/> Also please edit your previous post and remove the osk key from your post. We are not allowed to show the osk key in the forums here. Thanks.

@Yardon I guess you must have been installing with a GPU passed through yes? The OP is installing the osx using an emulated GPU (vnc graphics) so this wouldn't cause an issue. The issue that you had is that you had an Nvidia gpu as primary GPU. If an Nvidia gpu is the only/primary card in the server it will not pass through (showing a black screen( unless you pass through a vbios file with it)). When you enabled the integrated GPU in the mb bios the Nvidia card then became the secondary GPU in the system and then it worked OK. The reason for this is on boot the primary GPU vbios is shadowed and this can cause a problem with nvidia hence it must either be secondary or have a vbios passed through in the xml. @gareth_iowc what is the host CPU in your server? Please also post your xml here.

Hi @gareth_iowc looking at your xml i see you are only using 1 thread for the vm <vcpu placement='static'>1</vcpu> I would use at least 2 vcpus then also remove the below topology line in the xml <topology sockets='1' cores='1' threads='1'/> Also in your xml below you don't have the osk key. This is okay but only if you are using the fake smc kext. I would advise using the osk key in the xml rather than the fake smc kext, but you must use one or the other not both. <qemu:commandline> <qemu:arg value='-usb'/> <qemu:arg value='-device'/> <qemu:arg value='usb-mouse,bus=usb-bus.0'/> <qemu:arg value='-device'/> <qemu:arg value='usb-kbd,bus=usb-bus.0'/> <qemu:arg value='-smbios'/> <qemu:arg value='type=2'/> <qemu:arg value='-cpu'/> <qemu:arg value='Penryn,vendor=GenuineIntel,kvm=on,+invtsc,vmware-cpuid-freq=on,'/> </qemu:commandline> so with osk key XML should look like this ( but with the real osk key (which I cant put in this post)) <qemu:commandline> <qemu:arg value='-usb'/> <qemu:arg value='-device'/> <qemu:arg value='usb-mouse,bus=usb-bus.0'/> <qemu:arg value='-device'/> <qemu:arg value='usb-kbd,bus=usb-bus.0'/> <qemu:arg value='-device'/> <qemu:arg value='isa-applesmc,osk=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'/> <qemu:arg value='-smbios'/> <qemu:arg value='type=2'/> <qemu:arg value='-cpu'/> <qemu:arg value='Penryn,vendor=GenuineIntel,kvm=on,+invtsc,vmware-cpuid-freq=on,'/> </qemu:commandline> </domain>

Hi guys. This video is about PCIe passthrough. It discusses what IOMMU is and how it works, the PCIe architecture and how it can effect iommu groupings. The video also shows some solutions for dealing with passing through devices when they are not alone in an iommu group. Hope its useful.

Great glad you got a good deal

Part 3 is up now

I would probably replace the 2 nics to one dual or quad port card. You could use a virtual nic. I have found sometimes problems using the virtio nic and have used an emulated e1000. Seems with virtio pfsense doesnt always see the card on boot when it is on some buses. However manually assigning to a different bus it is detected. Also when using a virtual nic be sure to disable checksum hardware offload in the pfsense settings.

second part now up

Editing right now. Should be up tomorrow Work has been really busy and getting in the way !!! Always the way for me at work, a job I think will be a couple of hours turns into all day

Hi @joelones Just set in the bios of the pfsense to enable wake on lan. When the machine is off it will still power the lan port for wake on lan. I use @Squid excellent user script plugin to send a wol ping using etherwake command This script runs on array stop etherwake 00:01:3e:4e:5a:b8 I also use another script for when the array starts This uses ssh to login to the pfsense machine and shut it down this way only one pfsense is running at a time ie ssh [email protected] /etc/rc.halt You will need to generate some ssh key pairs on unRAID and copy the public key to the admin user in pfsense. All of this will be covered in my pfsense videos

I am starting a series of videos on pfSense. Both physical and VM instances will be used. Topics such as using a failover physical pfSense to work with a VM pfSense. Setting up OpenVPN (both an OpenVPN server and OpenVPN multiple clients). Using VLANs. Blocking ads. Setting up squid and squid guard and other topics. T This part is an introduction part gives an overview of the series of videos and talks about pfSense and its advantages. Second part of is on hardware and network equipment Part 3 install and basic config Part 4 customize backup and aupdate Part 5 DHCP, Interfaces and WIFI Part 6 Pfsense and DNS Part 7 - Firewall rules, Portforwarding/NAT, Aliases and UPnp Part 8 Open NAT for XBOX ONE and PS4

Nice

gave me an idea to use wget and ftps

This video is a tutorial showing how to 'fairly securely' auto start an encrypted unRAID array by hosting the keyfile on an ftps server online or a local ftp server on your cell phone.