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I have a script that calls: modprobe em28xx When the array is started. Then I have my Plex docker setup for an autostart delay of 30 seconds, to give the script time to fire and for modprobe to load not only em28xx but all of its dependencies such as the dvb_core driver. For me, /dev/dvb, isn't an actual path until the modprobe script fires. That is the real reason my Plex docker has an autostart delay, the docker crashes on start if the drivers haven't been loaded and /dev/dvb hasn't been created. When I said that my USB stick doesn't show up in the dvb plugin, I meant it ONLY doesn't show up in the adapters list on the plugin GUI. If I had to take a guess why, it would be that the GUI is looking for the devices at boot time, but that the device doesn't show as a dvb device until I load the driver at array start. I hope this helps, if not let me know.

I AM THE CAT!!! So, starting with the NVIDIA build for 6.8.3 AND the DVB Build for 6.8.3 I was able to smush the DVB drivers into the NVIDIA Build, I had to modprobe the specific driver (em28xx) for my Hauppage WinTV-Dual-USB as I didn't manage to get it to auto-load but it works, SEE!: my only problem is that my DVB adapter, a hauppage WINTV-Dual-USB do not show up in the UNRAID DVB plugin but plex does detect and stream from it just as well as it did previously. Now I would like to point out that there is no polish on this setup, I have to manually modprobe the driver after boot time at this point, before I start my plex docker (thank you LSIO for the docker, that was the last thing that I needed to make this thing work, the official plex docker wouldn't do the HW transcode) and that, after testing this issue it does not go away on a reboot. Here is how I did it, bask in the simple power of duct-tape based jank: I first downloaded both NVIDIA and DVB plugins. Then I selected the LibreElec 6.8.3 (because that is what works with my tuner) build in the DVB plugin and installed it Reboot the server I then confirmed that my DVB device was showing in the DVB plugin Sifting through the syslog (check my snip it helps to show what I mean) I wrote down the dvb driver that my device was being assigned to (the snip is from after the combination but it is identical to the way that it would be from the before combination) Then I copied the bzfirmware and bzmodules files from my flash share I then installed the NVIDIA 6.8.3 build in the NVIDIA plugin Reboot the server I confirmed that my Graphics card was showing in the NVIDIA plugin I copied the bzfirmware and bzmodules files from my flash share (yes, i did this twice, once for the DVB setup and once for the Nvidia setup) I then unpacked both of them in windows into separate folders (you could do this in whatever you want but i like the simplicity of the windows GUI) I then copied the contents of the DVB bzfirmware into the NVIDIA bzfirmware folder chosing NOT to overwrite any existing files I then copied the contents of the DVB bzmodules \4.19.107-Unraid\kernel\drivers\media to the same folder in the NVIDIA bzmodules folder I then shared both folders to a linux VM I spun up for this and used mksquashfs to zip them both back up (make sure to use the -all-root option to avoid contaminating the permissions of the output bzfirmware and bzmodules files) I then copied the two brand new bz files on top of the ones in my flash drive After a final reboot (and some related troubleshooting that led me to migrate my plex container to the LSIO version) all I have to do is modprobe my driver back in after boot EVERY SINGLE TIME! and start my plex container My next task will be to setup a user script that runs on array start to modprobe that driver so I don't have to do it by hand but it is almost midnight here and I have to work in the morning.

@CHBMB I went to try out your combined Nvidia / DVB build based on 6.7.1rc2 but the Unraid Nvidia plugin no longer shows that particular build. Do you have a link somewhere to that build that I can try and install myself?

Someone further up in this thread said that they used mksquashfs to add a firmware file for one of their devices.I'm not sure how it worked but look through the forum you should be able to find somebody that has done it.

I would try it

I have used modprobe before for devices I couldn't get to show up at boot. If you know how to get the module for it then the only thing to remember is that UNRAID unpacks into memory at boot so you may need to copy the module every time before you modprobe.

I need a sanity check here. I get errors for disk 5 when I sync parity but the "idiot light" on the dashboard for that drive shows that the drive is ok. I am not sure why, if I am getting errors unraid would indicate that the drive is fine. i have attached the downloaded smart report for the drive, and looking through it it does show something called "elements in the grown defect list" as 2, where all other drives show this number as 0. Should I bite the bullet as it were and replace this drive? hubris-smart-20200523-1145.zip

Thank you for your work on this. I appreciate you.

Yeah that's the size of it.

Sure, this plug-in is basically an automated way to replace the kernel with a custom compiled one that contains the drivers you need.

I never did find a fix for this issue.

The reason they rolled back the kernel was due to an unresolved bug. I cannot remember exactly the bug, but my brain says something to do with LDAP or AD authentication. Or I could have had too much to drink tonight. YMMV

The guy who usually updates it is super busy at the moment

I am having trouble with Virtualbox on a Windows 10 VM. I have manually enabled nested VMs BEFORE starting my Win10 VM with the following commands: modprobe -r kvm_amd modprobe kvm_amd nested=1 but nested Virtualbox VMs hang at their bios pages. None of them successfully boot. Can I get a little help please?

https://www.boincstats.com/stats/challenge/team/chat/1074 I found it here

Just reassembled my old UNRAID server, an old dual Xeon x5670 box with 48 GB of RAM, put a drive in it just to run the Boinc docker on it. It also qualifies as a space heater with 24 threads all completely maxed out. Then also installed Boinc on my old laptop for the points lol.

@SpencerJ Enroll the UNRAID team in the upcoming "Against Corona!" Team challenge on BOINC.

Here are some pictures of the server. I have also included a picture of the BIOS system information screen showing both processors and their stepping. Hp z600 https://imgur.com/gallery/75NmllI

This used to be my UNRAID server. Has two 3.5" caddies, 6 total SATA ports (SATA II), can accept up to 2 5.25" drives (comes with an ASUS DVD RW drive), comes with an older than dirt video card from NVIDIA, I will also include a SATA III card with 3 ports and 2 M.2 slots on card that I have used for the whole time I have had this setup. Doesn't have any drives in it at this moment. although I used two 2TB drives in the caddies. Wanted better single thread performance for my windows 10 VM for games and although this thing has 12 cores @ 2.93Ghz to play with, single thread performance was only about 1300 on Passmark. Made an excellent Plex Server for the time I used it. I want $275 for it shipped to anywhere in the continental US. I will pay shipping. I will only do PayPal goods and services as the transaction type. already sold

No trouble with the LibreElec build with my Hauppauge WinTV-Dual via usb. Passed it to Plex docker via /dev/dvb/adapter0 and /dev/dvb/adapter1 it has been rock solid on every build since 6.8.0rc2. Not writing to complain. just writing to say thank you. I appreciate the work this took and appreciate the seamless nature of its use.

For what it is worth, there is a plug-in called UNBalance that allows you to move data off of an array drive into other drives.

48GB DDR3 ECC 16 GB to windows 10 WM 4 GB for Ubuntu VM Thinking of doing a 16GB ramdisk for scratch/ windows 10 "pagefile.sys"

I would like to see QEMU non-native emulation support. QEMU already has the ability to emulate non-native architectures. Just building all the emulation targets would be awesome. I honestly don't care if that means I have to write my Domain XML from scratch on non-native VMs; I would really like this as an option, especially if your already compiling QEMU for UNRAID. I would also like a drop in method for adding kernel modules, for drivers and the like. Rather than compiling a custom kernel for each use case.

I would like to build QEMU from source so that I might include the ability to run VMs on emulated Architectures (PPC, ARM, etc.) I have tried everything that I know about linux and learned so much about Slackware in the process. However I just cannot figure it out. I continue to have problems compiling Qemu and using it from the command-line not to mention that I still haven't even been able to try building a VM from XML. I just don't know enough about configuring and compiling binaries in any system much less Slackware. This is a hobby project honestly, I want to create a VM that emulates a late '99 Power Mac that I can install some of my older games on and play for funzies. I would also like to learn more about installing/compiling/configuring binaries on UNRAID in the process if possible. If anyone would be willing to devote some time to show/teach me how to make this project closer to reality I would be very appreciative.

I have a few old games from an old power pc mac that I would like to see if I could setup a virtual machine to run. I know that QEMU has support for emulating completely different architectures but am completely baffled on how to set one up. I don't know if the QEMU binary for PPC emulation is included in UNRAID either. Anyone ever played with this idea or know anything about it?