Hello all,

 

I am finally going to make the switch from a CentOS system to Unraid because of the new virtualization technology.

 

The parts for my new build are still on the way and I was in the process of building a plan of attack when I came across a question.

 

I have an extra SSD that is 120GB that I would like to store the VMs on but not use as a cache drive.  I regularly write 1TB of data in a day and if I understand correctly the cache drive needs to be over that.  While looking at the walkthroughs the cache drive is what is commonly used to store the VMs.  Is there anyway to utilize this SSD in this fashion or will I need to purchase a larger cache drive?

 

Thanks

See here

See here

 

Thanks. I was able to find steps to mount drives I am just not sure if the VMs can be loaded from a drive that Unraid does not know about.  I have worked with xen in the past so I know I can modify the config files to point to any directory I wish, I just wasn't sure if unraid would be unhappy with it.

 

More or less, has anyone done this before?  If not, when I do my build late next weekend, I can give an official yay or nay.

I've done this on my test box and it works absolutly fine 

I've done this on my test box and it works absolutly fine 

 

Awesome.  Thanks much, I appreciate it.

Here's how I setup my GO file and smb-extra.conf.

 

You can set this up anyway you like though.

Just ensure you are sharing a directory on the disk / partition not the disk / partition itself otherwise you will get write access problems.

 

mkdir /mnt/xendisk
mount -rw -o noatime,nodiratime,discard -t ext4 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD322HJ_S17AJ9CQB09792-part1 /mnt/xendisk

 

[global]
security = USER
guest account = nobody
public = yes
guest ok = yes
map to guest = bad user

[xen]
  path = /mnt/xendisk/xen
  read only = no