Currently thinking of upgrading the 'production server' in the home to Beta4 and have a few questions.

 

1. Has anyone looked at running a MineCraft Server such as MineOS+ as a VM, this would be wonderful for the little buddy here who currently plays it locally on his desktop computer.  Setting up a Minecraft Server has been on my todo list for awhile now and if the new unraid made this easier that would be wonderful.

 

2. What is the 'sleep' functionality like currently, i previously used Influencer's S3 sleep plugin, am currently using the Dynamix one, but i rely on my server regularly going to sleep when there is no activity and being woken by various devices mostly XBMC's when they need data.  Does the server going to sleep, sleep the running VM's or do they need to be shutdown before the server would go to sleep

 

3. Lastly, has anyone thought about running SteamOS on their unraid.  It would seem this could be great, my unraid lives underneath my 55" TV and if a few hardware upgrades could enable this in the lounge room i could imagine it being amazing.

 

Thanks for your time

Adam

1. I just checked this out and was able to install the TurnKey MineOS

 

cd /mnt/cache/domains/
mkdir mineos
wget --no-check-certificate https://www.dropbox.com/sh/apwuxs889wz06os/iVjcJHX9vu/mineos_tkl-x64.iso

 

 

-- Then I copied my windows7 configuration and tweaked it.

name="mineos"
kernel = 'hvmloader'
builder="hvm"
vcpus=2
memory=2048
disk = ['file:/mnt/cache/domains/mineos/mineos.img,hda,w' , 'file:/mnt/cache/domains/mineos/mineos_tkl-x64.iso,hdc:cdrom,r']
vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3e:01:01:02,bridge=xenbr0' ] #<--- Every MAC Address has to start with 00:16:3e the rest you can customize.

# boot=[c|d|n] # Selects the emulated virtual device to boot from. Options are hard disk (c), cd-rom (d) or network/PXE (n).
# Multiple options can be given and will be attempted in the order they are given. e.g. to boot from cd-rom  but fallback to the hard disk you can give dc. The default is cd.

boot="cd"

acpi = '1'
apic = '1'
viridian = '1'
xen_platform_pci='1'
sdl = '0'
vnc = '1'
vnclisten = '0.0.0.0'
vncpasswd = ''
usb = '1'
usbdevice = 'tablet'  

on_poweroff="destroy"
on_reboot="restart"
on_crash="destroy"

# Enable Xen VGA Passthrough gfx_passthru=1
# VGA Passthrough Palit NVIDIA Geforce 8400 GS PCI Express x16 VGA card. pci = [ '01:00.0','00:1b.0' ]
# PCI Passthrough Intel HD Audio Controller. #pci = [ '00:1b.0' ]
# PCI Passthrough all the USB Controllers. # pci = [ '00:1a.0','00:1a.1','00:1a.2','00:1a.7','00:1d.0','00:1d.1','00:1d.2','00:1d.7' ]

 

Created the disk image to install to

truncate -s 2G mineos.img

 

Then VNC to the ip of your unraid box. The password is blank unless you changed it. Set up your minecraft server from there. Also, I didn't use LVM when setting up the partitions in the turn key install. It kept complaining about space. And 2GB might be too much. I don't know much about minecraft because I played on my phone once and didn't get it... but anyway here you go.

 

One other thing to note is when I got in the turnkey config it was telling me networking was not yet configured. I'm guessing it's because it takes a minute for unraid to bring up eth0 or assign xenbr0 or whatever the heck the problem is. Anyway....... This should get you well on your way! I basically just googled and searched all this info and if you have questions I'd probably just have to google the answers so please try to find them yourself first.

 

thank you for your time, i totally wasnt expecting you to go to so much trouble

It wasn't too much trouble really. I'd be interested to know if that actually works but I didn't see a way to connect with the demo of minecraft and I wasn't going to drop $30 or whatever on it. Let us know if those instructions work!

My two kids both have Minecraft official.  I am going to check this out as soon as my RAM arrives from China.

 

Kryspy

I have used beta4 to host a mineos install as well i can vouch that it does work as stated above =).

My install stalls at -->

 

Parsing config from mineos.cfg

WARNING: ignoring "kernel" directive for HVM guest. Use "firmware_override" instead if you really want a non-default firmware

xc: info: VIRTUAL MEMORY ARRANGEMENT:

  Loader:        0000000000100000->000000000019ec84

  Modules:      0000000000000000->0000000000000000

  TOTAL:        0000000000000000->000000007f800000

  ENTRY ADDRESS: 0000000000100000

xc: info: PHYSICAL MEMORY ALLOCATION:

  4KB PAGES: 0x0000000000064c00

  2MB PAGES: 0x00000000000000d6

  1GB PAGES: 0x0000000000000000

Daemon running with PID 3172

xenconsole: Could not read tty from store: No such file or directory

libxl: error: libxl_exec.c:118:libxl_report_child_exitstatus: console child _exited with error status 2

 

 

Any ideas?

 

Kryspy

My install stalls at -->

 

Parsing config from mineos.cfg

WARNING: ignoring "kernel" directive for HVM guest. Use "firmware_override" instead if you really want a non-default firmware

xc: info: VIRTUAL MEMORY ARRANGEMENT:

  Loader:        0000000000100000->000000000019ec84

  Modules:      0000000000000000->0000000000000000

  TOTAL:        0000000000000000->000000007f800000

  ENTRY ADDRESS: 0000000000100000

xc: info: PHYSICAL MEMORY ALLOCATION:

  4KB PAGES: 0x0000000000064c00

  2MB PAGES: 0x00000000000000d6

  1GB PAGES: 0x0000000000000000

Daemon running with PID 3172

xenconsole: Could not read tty from store: No such file or directory

libxl: error: libxl_exec.c:118:libxl_report_child_exitstatus: console child _exited with error status 2

 

 

Any ideas?

 

Kryspy

 

 

Would you please post mineos.cfg ?

Here is my mineos.cfg

name="mineos"

kernel = 'hvmloader'

builder="hvm"

vcpus=2

memory=2048

disk = ['file:/mnt/cache/VM/mineos/mineos.img,hda,w' , 'file:/mnt/cache/VM/mine$

vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3e:01:01:02,bridge=br0' ] #<--- Every MAC Address has to sta$

 

# boot=[c|d|n] # Selects the emulated virtual device to boot from. Options are $

# Multiple options can be given and will be attempted in the order they are giv$

 

boot="dc"

 

acpi = '1'

apic = '1'

viridian = '1'

xen_platform_pci='1'

sdl = '0'

vnc = '1'

vnclisten = '0.0.0.0'

vncpasswd = ''

usb = '1'

usbdevice = 'tablet'

 

on_poweroff="destroy"

on_reboot="restart"

on_crash="destroy"

 

# Enable Xen VGA Passthrough gfx_passthru=1# VGA Passthrough Palit NVIDIA Geforce 8400 GS PCI Express x16 VGA card. pci = [ '01:00.0','00:1b.0' ]

# PCI Passthrough Intel HD Audio Controller. #pci = [ '00:1b.0' ]

# PCI Passthrough all the USB Controllers. # pci = [ '00:1a.0','00:1a.1','00:1a.2','00:1a.7','00:1d.0','00:1d.1','00:1d.2','00:1d.7' ]

 

my bridge is named br0 BTW.

 

Kryspy

I really wish I could help you but I don't know. Some googling said that it couldn't connect to to the shell or whatever. I don't know. Do other VMs work for you? Are you sure that the mac address you're using is unique (I'm not sure this matters but it seems like it might)? Did you try a reboot? Or maybe try killing all your other VMs and only loading that one. Like I said, I don't know... wish I could help. These are just kind of shots in the dark.

Yeah my Ubuntu 12.04 VM works flawlessly.  I am going to try a restart later as soon as my inlaws are finished using Plex remotely   Thanks for your input.

 

Maybe pyrater will chime in and point me in the right direction.

 

Kryspy

Well as opposed to figuring this eror out I just created another minimal Ubuntu 12.04 image and installed it on that.

 

Kryspy