[glow=red,2,300]This is a proof of concept thread only until 6.0 goes final.  It is meant mostly just to show people that it is possible and chronical the basic issues we'll have to deal with.

 

In the mean time tread lightly, use at your own risk, and I suggest you keep a bare-metal PMS install at the ready!!![/glow]

 

So this is my log of how I got , or am trying to get, Plex Media Server installed into the UnRaid provided Ubuntu VM.  OK technically I've already upgraded to Ubuntu 13.10, but everything below should work fine for 13.04 as well.  If you want to upgrade to 13.10 that is another topic for another thread as is how you would go about making a snapshot of your 13.04 VM.

 

So first off you will need to actually get the package.  Unfortunately right now it is not loaded into the repo so you need to download and install it manually using:

wget http://downloads.plexapp.com/plex-media-server/0.9.8.18.290-11b7fdd/plexmediaserver_0.9.8.18.290-11b7fdd_amd64.deb

 

If you try installing it now you will see that you are missing avahi-utils so you will need to install that with:

apt-get install avahi-utils

 

Now you can install with

dpkg -i plexmediaserver_0.9.8.18.290-11b7fdd_amd64.deb

 

Now use your PC browser and go to [your VM ip]:32400/web/index.html and you should see the opening page for a brand new PMS install.

 

NOTE: When PMS was running on UnRaid direct UPnP "seemed" to work fine and the myPlex servers were able to connect to my server.  That did not seem to work with the VM.  So I had to go back into my router and manually create a port forward. 

 

At this point I'm stopping and posting because I still need to figure out how to give my VM access to /mnt/user, smb access, or bite the bullet and enable NFS.  I say bite the bullet because damn it if NFS just doesn't seem to be never ending trouble on UnRaid.  Yes, I'm skurd of NFS

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Very nice. So the migration to virtualization had begun. I'm not going to lie I'm hesitant about the vm's hopefully a wiki will guide the tecky inept.

well all i can say is Tom's instructions were easy to follow to at least get you to a basic VM.  I wanted to update to 13.10 and that was easy.  Snap shots were easy (xl save -c /mnt/user/PC_Backup/Xen/ubuntu.13-04.20140201). I needed more memory and more vcpu for plex, editing the .cfg was easy (I'll add that to the OP).  Right now I'm working on installing the Unity Desktop because I find xfce ugly AND somehow all the icons got jacked and that is apparently pretty common in xfce.  I can't say I NEED Unity, but I'm playing.

 

The "hard part" will be cleanly migrating my Plex Library from /mnt/... into the VMs default library location.  I'll have a backup and I'll use copy.  So worst case if I mess it up I can start over and in the mean time I can always start plex on UnRaid proper and watch a show to calm my nerves

Any updates to getting your unRaid shares into the VM?  I too need to run Plex.  Currently have a AMD dual core Athlon II e series 2.9 Ghz and 4 GB of Ram.

 

Kryspy

Any updates to getting your unRaid shares into the VM?  I too need to run Plex.  Currently have a AMD dual core Athlon II e series 2.9 Ghz and 4 GB of Ram.

 

Kryspy

 

I seem to have everything running okay mounting UnRAID via CIFS shares into the VM. I have SAB, SB & Plex all running. I did have a write issue from SAB/SB, but fixed it by adding permissions to the fstab file

 

NFS is completely pooched, but CIFS works.

 

I used IronicBadgers VM.

 

somehow all the icons got jacked and that is apparently pretty common in xfce.  I can't say I NEED Unity, but I'm playing.

try

apt-get install gnome-icon-theme-full

to fix the missing icons