Thanks again, once again my error.  Ive now got it working, so thanks. I plan to use the vm to rum my tvheadend as I have given up getting it to work directly on unraid. However, at the moment I cant get it to recognize my usb tuner. Is there something I need to change in the xen config file? I have downloaded media tree etc.

find the pci bus address and then add it to your config file.  like

usb=1
usbdevice=[ 'host:0764:0501' ]

  where 0764:0501 will be the bus address you found for your usb tuner.

Hmm... Maybe this is beyond me.  Ive found the number that refers to the usb tuner and entered it into the config file.  Rebooted everything and gone into the ubuntu vm.  lsusb gives me an error message still (unable to initialize libusb: -99) and tvheadend does not see the tuner (no lights on tuner either).  lsusb on unraid shows it as present.

Hmm... Maybe this is beyond me.  Ive found the number that refers to the usb tuner and entered it into the config file.  Rebooted everything and gone into the ubuntu vm.  lsusb gives me an error message still (unable to initialize libusb: -99) and tvheadend does not see the tuner (no lights on tuner either).  lsusb on unraid shows it as present.

Ok doing some googling shows that it might have to be passed through as a pci instead of usb.  I haven't tried this since I don't use it but I was able to find that you have to hide it from unraid in sysconfig and then pass it through in your ubuntu.cfg.

 

Example.

 

hiding it from unraid.

label Xen/unRAID OS
  menu default
  kernel /syslinux/mboot.c32 
  append /xen dom0_mem=2097152 --- /bzimage xen-pciback.hide=(00:1b.0)(02:00.0)(02:00.1) --- /bzroot

Pass through in you ubuntu.cfg

usb = '1'
usbdevice = 'tablet'

pci = ['00:1b.0','02:00.0','02:00.1']

 

Again I have not done this before but that is what is coming up in google searches.

Cheers buddy, you've got me closer. Ubuntu now recognises the usb hub and its hidden from unraid (as it couldn't find my usb key to start with). However, it still wont see anything attached to the hub (I've tried a usb stick as well). I found the page you referenced but I wonder if my needs are unique!?! I thought this was going to be easier than trying to get tvheadend on unraid working! Guess I was wrong. 

So what is the realisticly smallest I could get away with making my Ubuntu install?  Based on using a data.img file and probably only loading things like Plex, Transmission, Handbrake, and some form of desktop (xfce) so I can remote in to run handbrake?  Could I get away with 5gb?

I think 5GB would be to close.  But you could always try. It's easier to expand and add GB than to shrink. I have a 10GB os img & 20GB data img.  I have sab, sick, headphones, deluge, plex, mythtv backend, LAMP with mysql for mythtv & xbmc, maraschino  installed.  I have 75% used. That's on 14.04

dang well that is a lot more added than I would, but I could do 10GB I'm sure.  Or just buy a bigger SSD ;-)  But yeah 10GB sounds about right for me.  Then I'd supplement with probably a 30GB data.img.  as it stands now my Plex library is about 13GB so that will leave me room to grow.  Though I tend to delete media after watching it and I've kind of stabilized the size of my library over the last few months.

 

Thanks.

I would try 5GB first. If it's not enough you could expand it to10GB.  I tried tretflix but it was 30. If I could do 5 I would.  I want it as small as possible for easier backups.

I take it growing is easier than shrinking.  Because I looked into shrinking and decided it was easier to just start over since I haven't really done anything more than create the VM and install plex.

I don't think shrinking is really possible. I think you can only create a new smaller image and mount old into new vm and copy.

Just as a future reminder for myself: It seems that before I can "sudo service sickbeard start" I have to change the permissions of the folder with "sudo chmod 777 .sickbeard/"

A quick bump on this thread as I found it quite useful in setting up my first VM through unRAID.

 

As a realative newbie to all of this, here are a few stumbling blocks I hit that someone with minimal knowledge may also get caught up on.

 

Don't just copy and paste all of the commands.  Read through them.  Some need some slight modifications.  For instance:

 

//Tower/Movies /media/Movies cifs noauto,credentials=/home/ubuntuUser/.smbcredentials,noperm,noserverino,uid=nobody,gid=users 0 0

//Tower/TV /media/TV cifs noauto,credentials=/home/ubuntuUser/.smbcredentials,noperm,noserverino,uid=nobody,gid=users 0 0

 

Here, you need to type the name of the user you created during the ubuntu install process.

 

The one that got me the longest was the credentials for the samba user.  Since all of mine are set to public, the proper configuration on the credential file was:

 

username=nobody

password=

 

After those few glitches were hammered out, I got the shares to mount on the ubuntu VM on each boot.