I have unraid and am happy with with it.

 

Question

 

I have a piece of software that runs under windows 11 called Prof Media 13

 

Is it possible that I create a VM with windows 11 and run this software through that as my Blu ray drive will not reach to my desktop computer.

 

I am planning on adding a docker container to rip dvds to MKV files 

 

I have never used any VMs in the past.

 

Rod

 

 

unraid has dockers that can rip.

I use the docker make by jlesage/makemkv
https://hub.docker.com/r/jlesage/makemkv


Yes you can use a unraid windows 11 vm and pass a physical disk drive to that vm.

Unraid terminal lsblk


and/or lsscsi

AS you can see I have 2 disk drives. One I have set up for vm passthorugh via usb and the other direct connected to my Mother board for docker disk rips.

in Linux the disk drive physical access is normally at /dev/sr0

My makemkv docker example addon sg# was the old kernel method...


It is easier to pass a usb attached disk drive to a VM though as it will appear as a checkbox in unraid...
BUT You Can via sata/ide attached...- to pass a physical disk via vm xml code:

XML code to add under devices:

<disk type='block' device='cdrom'>
  <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
  <source dev='/dev/sr0'/>
  <target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/>
  <readonly/>
</disk>

 

for other vm help and code and setup I recommend you take a look at this form with my documentations/notes and other form users info over the years...: