GrantE Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 I have...had...a lovely 80TB unraid server. Then my house flooded and everything is destroyed. I have backups of the config and docker containers. But it will be awhile before I have hardware to restore them to. Things are tough right now and I really want to get plex back up with a bit of content for my kid so they can have a bit of normalcy. What I do have is a hyper-v server at a friend's house I can setup some VMs on with a tiny bit of storage (at least compared to the server that got flooded). Far from ideal, but better than nothing until I can get things sorted out. Can I run unraid in hyperv as a VM without any USB drives, even in trial mode for a couple weeks? That would let me directly restore all the docker configurations instead of having to setup docker manually on a Ubuntu VM or something. I tried the manual install instructions, mounted a VHD file, format FAT32, name it UNRAID and copy the files over etc. When I boot it, it gets to the point of "Waiting 30 seconds for device with label UNRAID to come online", but can't find the disk. I double checked and when mounting the disk it does come up as UNRAID and a FAT32 drive. So I can't get past that. I can probably get them to put in a USB drive if needed for licensing the trial license or even installing to, but not sure if I can boot from that in Hyper-V on server 2019. Any ideas how I can get something running temporarily? I'd be very grateful for any ideas you might have. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 Trial still requires a flash drive. Quote Link to comment
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