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Depends how you interpret "Use Case" i.e. Business Analysis or Software Development. No worries, I think my points are pretty clear.

I think jonathanm made his point and I responded. Use case would be an investment of time to gain greater market share. since I do not have the cost of development of adding the ISCSI features set to the software, I am unable to tell you what the financial impact would be or model a ROI / business case. However if we are looking at bring in more and different user into the user base $$ the method of using what is being post as an "want" in the forum is anecdotal and not really a good measurement in this case. Since the folks that really are looking for the added feature are probably using using some like FreeNas, Nas4Free, openvault etc...to meet their requirement. And these are the folks that could provide a greater market share / revenue stream, and probably are folks that are the "Home Lab" users that pay for subscriptions like VMUG ~$200 a year. The "Home Lab" market using NAS, Docker, and VM technology is no small market, considering VMware has invested in VMug to promote there brand.

I understand about being pragmatic, I am fairly new to Lime Tech / unraid and have 25 years of IT under my belt. I have used Kimchi, Ovirt, Linux, Xen Server, Citrix, Hyper-V, Vmware/VMUG looking for an all around home lab platform that can be easily used as a game machine on the weekend and home lab during the week. This what has attracted me to move over to Lime Tech / unraid, prior to Lime Tech I was using my VMug subscription to provide the GPU passtru for gaming with VMware and for a lab environment, this seem to be to bloated so I tested Rhev / Ovirt which was nice but didn't like distributive architecture and the number of servers required. My last venture was with Fedora and using Kimchi which was straight forward KVM/Libvirt with HTML5 interface which used NoVNC and Spice, however it did not offer total platform like Lime Tech. So from my perspective if Lime Tech had ISCSI, SPice, and VM Cloning bundled in its HTML5 "Single Pain of Glass" this would be the Ferrari vs a Lexus. I also give you Kudos on the community interaction, I use Samsung Smartthings Home Automation and they have very good community support as well which brings on a lot of market share from its competitors which drives more customers of all types. Great job on the software....I wish I came up with the idea.

I sense a little resistance, it must be personal when there are so many request from the user base. I am sure we can work around or find a different platform. The community is probably a mix of Gamer's and hobbies/home lab IT folks that would like to use similar technology that they either are learning or working with.

Yep I know all the options, Spice is much better protocol for both linux and MS VM's and is already built in to libvirt, I was just asking to have the option with websockify.....no big deal I can just use virt-manager to manage the vm;s instead of using html5. I if I can install Kimchi on LT.

Does VNC provide Sound support?

Correct, Currently I use either my synology or linux servers for my vm and servers to create clusters etc...it would be nice if I can do the same with Limetech so I can move a way from the other storage and consolidate. Other NAS's in the market currently have the options...and folks like having it.

One good case would be for home labs, and for IT professionals using LT NAS in conjunction with other system OS's like Microsoft, Citrix, Redhat, and VMware. ISCSI is a cross platform industry standard for connecting storage and it would be nice to have.

Lime Tech is a great product for IT users / home labs, however it lacks some functionality that I believe would be beneficial. Two VM functions that I find myself having to use virt-manager for is cloning and spice, if we could get at lease get the cloning function this would be great since it already exist in kvm/libvirt. Thank you....

What is the the command line to get the GUI console? or is the only way is during boot up?

Do you need a /8 network (16.7M addresses) ? Yes, I know my network sub-netting...unless this is a limitation in the programming.

Drop down out of the network setting for the subnet mask does not give you the option for a 255.0.0.0 subnet, it only has 255.255.0.0

I am have problems with the VM disappearing in (Meta Data) the web browser with 6.2.0-rc4, this seems to be weird behavior and I have to us the existing image file to create a new VM. Seems a little buggy to have this happen, and start happening with the latest update.

I like the new console option, is there a way to start this from the command after boot?

This really nice and I see you can set this at boot, however is there away to get GUI after the boot from the command line?