August 9, 20214 yr Hi All, I've been looking around the forums, however I didn't see or find an answer I was looking for, so decided to create this post. I really like UNRAID and will be using it in the future for my home server. However it's going to be at least a year before I buy all the hardware/UNRAID license. In the meantime I would like to test UNRAID in Hyper-V. My questions are: 1) Can I get UNRAID working in hyper-V (I think thats a yes) 2) If I can get UNRAID working in Hyper-V, can I get the trial version activated using a USB stick with a GUID? 3) Once the trial has ended, can I start all over again and use the same USB stick I loaded UNRAID on to boot UNRAID again/start the trial again? 4) If I can't use UNRAID trial again, then if I purchase UNRAID and keep using that purchased version again and again in Hyper-V, would that work. I would like to create 4 virtual disks for the array also. Thanks, Tremorguy
August 9, 20214 yr 34 minutes ago, Tremorguy said: Hi All, I've been looking around the forums, however I didn't see or find an answer I was looking for, so decided to create this post. I really like UNRAID and will be using it in the future for my home server. However it's going to be at least a year before I buy all the hardware/UNRAID license. In the meantime I would like to test UNRAID in Hyper-V. My questions are: 1) Can I get UNRAID working in hyper-V (I think thats a yes) 2) If I can get UNRAID working in Hyper-V, can I get the trial version activated using a USB stick with a GUID? 3) Once the trial has ended, can I start all over again and use the same USB stick I loaded UNRAID on to boot UNRAID again/start the trial again? 4) If I can't use UNRAID trial again, then if I purchase UNRAID and keep using that purchased version again and again in Hyper-V, would that work. I would like to create 4 virtual disks for the array also. Thanks, Tremorguy it is a requirement to be able to run UnRaid successfully that the USB drive contains the UnRaid licence is passed through including its GUID, and I am not sure that is possible with Hyper-V? It certainly used to be a problem.
August 9, 20214 yr 1 hour ago, itimpi said: it is a requirement to be able to run UnRaid successfully that the USB drive contains the UnRaid licence is passed through including its GUID, and I am not sure that is possible with Hyper-V? It certainly used to be a problem. Still an outstanding issue with USB passthrough on Hyper-V, impacted some colleagues last week. They just went with VirtualBox. VMWare player is another option too.
August 9, 20214 yr Author 4 minutes ago, tjb_altf4 said: Still an outstanding issue with USB passthrough on Hyper-V, impacted some colleagues last week. They just went with VirtualBox. VMWare player is another option too. Using VirtualBox is totally fine also, the main thing is really reinstalling a trial after it's ended or if I should purchase a license and then use Virtualbox for the testing.
August 9, 20214 yr 4 minutes ago, Tremorguy said: Using VirtualBox is totally fine also, the main thing is really reinstalling a trial after it's ended or if I should purchase a license and then use Virtualbox for the testing. You won't be able to reset the trial with a reinstall, but you can extend the trial if you need more time to decide.
September 16, 20214 yr So it isn't possible to create a disk in Hyper-V, copy the contents of the Unraid files to it, and use that?
September 16, 20214 yr 2 minutes ago, IMTheNachoMan said: So it isn't possible to create a disk in Hyper-V, copy the contents of the Unraid files to it, and use that? Unraid must find its license and the flash drive GUID it was registered to.
September 16, 20214 yr 3 hours ago, trurl said: flash drive GUID I guess it isn't possible to emulate that in Hyper-V. Thanks.
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