jbartlett

Converting my CentOS & WHS2011 images from IMG to QCOW didn't seem to work.

I was able to get Plex running under docker but when trying to add sections, it seems that the VM can see the disk mounts on UNRAID but viewing them shows no contents. I updated the config files to add a mount point for /media linked to /mnt/user but it still doesn't display any contents. How do telnet into the VM?

After installing docker, some of the directories didn't have the permissions to allow browsing inside. Running the same command as the "New Permissions" script on it corrected the issue.

I converted a CentOS IMG to qcow and used the example XML you provided and modified only to apply to my local paths and CPU. I get the following error on launch: root@NAS:/mnt/vm/CentOS# virsh create centos.xml error: Failed to create domain from centos.xml error: internal error: unexpected domain type kvm, expecting xen XML file: <domain type='kvm'> <name>CentOS</name> <uuid>0ea490aa-5de5-4d04-a383-50a1ec6f1639</uuid><!-- uuidgen --> <memory unit='GB'>8</memory> <currentMemory unit='GB'>8</currentMemory> <vcpu>8</vcpu> <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='q35'>hvm</type> <loader>/usr/share/qemu/bios-256k.bin</loader> <boot dev='cdrom'/> </os> <features> <acpi/> </features> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>destroy</on_crash> <devices> <!-- VIRTUAL DISK (IMG)--> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <source file='/mnt/xen/CentOS/centos.qcow'/> <target dev='hda'/> </disk> <!-- VIRTUAL CD-ROM (ISO) <disk type='file' device='cdrom'> <source file='/mnt/path/to/isos/boot.iso'/> <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/> <readonly/> </disk> --> <graphics type='vnc' port='5900'> <listen type='address' address='0.0.0.0'/> </graphics> <interface type='bridge'> <source bridge='xenbr0'/> </interface> <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/> </devices> </domain>

If you can telnet in but not access the web gui after a crash, it's likely processing the transaction logs(?) on each drive. Do a tail on the syslog to see what's happening.

I have True Image set up to split the backup into 25 GB chunks and using a cache drive. Backups are written fast and spread out on the array.

I use True Image to backup my PC to the NAS via SMB though it's been tricky getting it to see the UNRAID server from all computers. It does all of those with the addition that you can create images that exclude certain files or directories (say, for example, those files are already backed up to the NAS). I have it set to keep two full backups, each with a daily incremental backup for two weeks. When it's ready to create the 3rd full backup, it purges the 1st full backup.

Ah. I see that to get it on 32bit UNRAID, you had to download the 32bit compiler and compile the utilities. But the executable built on one 32bit server works on another 32bit server. So, anyone have it compiled in 64bit?

Is there a 64bit package of this utility for Slackware?

So far, I have plugins for CPU, Network, Streaming files, parity monitoring, UNRAID & SMART drive status, and XenTop Memory & Network utilization. Background tasks are created to perform the different monitoring and results are written to files on /tmp and a monitoring front end for display. These plugins are near completion but I can't provide a preview just yet, mainly because they all display the information in the same location on the screen and I need to work on arranging them in a 80x25 layout. Just needs polish. The XenTop plugin will likely be "disabled" or removed from release depending on if Tom removes Xen in favor of KVM. Oh, I still need to research how to invoke background tasks.

I've been working on a set of bash script files which does this and a lot of other neat crap such as VM monitoring, drive health checks, streaming files, etc. I'm writing it so each display section is basically a plugin to allow people to add in stuff they want or remove stuff they don't want. Then I'll create a front-end page for the UNRAID GUI to also display the info.

Happened a couple times when restarting a Win8 VM with PCI binding. The computer will become totally unresponsive requiring a shutdown via holding the power button down - the reset button does not do anything. But when it happens, my entire LAN goes offline too. None of the computers attached to the LAN can access any other local computer or remote web site until I shut off the NAS. The only exception was my work laptop which was connected via VPN to my work network.

And post your full syslog too.

Tom said previously that he wants to add multiple drive parity. He also questioned about having UNRAID master/slave machines so he's had the thought.

The server starts with the disks spinning and they just do not stop... UNRAID doesn't touch drives not assigned to the Array or Cache slots.

Back in the MFM days, I found it extremely satisfying to open up the bad hard drive to reveal the platters, then power it up and press the drive head onto the platter to make pretty designs. I mounted another platter from the drive in a picture frame and hung it at my desk.

I've never seen drives outside of the array spin down, though I haven't experienced the spinup issue.

XBMC wants to directly query a MySQL database which is not the same as a web service, which is sending an XML SOAP file to a URL and then parsing the XML SOAP response. Don't get your hopes up too much.

It's a slightly different story limiting to my Movies & TV shares. I have a lot of backups on my NAS, several are directory backups and not in a library of sorts. Including support media Movies: 2813 files in 700 directories TV: 2923 files in 71 directories Since I limit CacheDirs for mainly these two directories, it's more reasonable to use.

Select only the top level share. In this case, "Media". If you only want to cache the Movies, you'll need to put the movies in their own top-level share.

I took a different path, how many directories and files put on my NAS Directories: find /mnt/user0 -type d | wc -l Files: find /mnt/user0 -type f | wc -l 989,576 files in 60,700 directories

Yeah, plug it in backwards and you cross the red/black wires and power flows the wrong way through your electronics.

For some reason, I didn't now these things existed until I saw it on the Buy/Sell forum. I plan on picking one up for my UNRAID server so I can plug in the USB drive in an unused internal USB port on the motherboard. So just in case there are others who are likewise clueless. Support for USB2 and USB3. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=-1&IsNodeId=1&Description=usb%20motherboard&bop=And&Order=PRICE&PageSize=50

It is my understanding that the cache memory is used and released as other needs demand. Ie - it uses only free memory. It doesn't just cache directories but files as well so if you read files on one but not the other, it would skew things. Could be wrong. *shrug*

I have this problem too. Googling around shows that it's a kernel improvement that broke unifying communication. For me repeatedly unplugging and plugging into different usb port got the keyboard working after ~10 tries. I've never had any problems with my Logitech. Are you using the standard "Keyboard/mouse" USB ports? They're the ones located where the PS/2 ports are/used to be.