March 29, 201511 yr Hi Guys, I'm quite new to Virtualization and with some experimentation managed to implement an Ubuntu Server VM (as Guest) within a dom0 unRaid. My question is quite simple. In the tutorial posted on this forum about implementing an Ubuntu VM, access to the unRaid shares are given by using edits in the /etc/fstab file, which mounts unRaid's shares in the Ubuntu system by using the unRaid machines' hostname/IP address ('Tower'). While this works, it seems a bit cumbersome and unnecessary, although I am not remotely sure whether there is an alternative. Since my Ubuntu VM is running on the same machine that has my UnRaid shares, is it not possible to have Ubuntu see them "natively"? Is the only way to access my unRaid shares through this mounting process? I'd appreciate any help or advice. Thanks.
March 29, 201511 yr Hi Guys, I'm quite new to Virtualization and with some experimentation managed to implement an Ubuntu Server VM (as Guest) within a dom0 unRaid. My question is quite simple. In the tutorial posted on this forum about implementing an Ubuntu VM, access to the unRaid shares are given by using edits in the /etc/fstab file, which mounts unRaid's shares in the Ubuntu system by using the unRaid machines' hostname/IP address ('Tower'). While this works, it seems a bit cumbersome and unnecessary, although I am not remotely sure whether there is an alternative. Since my Ubuntu VM is running on the same machine that has my UnRaid shares, is it not possible to have Ubuntu see them "natively"? Is the only way to access my unRaid shares through this mounting process? I'd appreciate any help or advice. Thanks. If you use KVM instead of Xen this is possible. You can mount shares using 9p sharing using a share path and a share tag/name. Then mount the share tag in fstab.
March 30, 201511 yr Author dmarcias, Thank you for the info. I wanted to try to use Xen to do the job since I don't quite understand how to use KVM. Perhaps at some point I will migrate to KVM. Incidentally, I have been able to get two VMs (Ubuntu and Windows) running on my unRaid beautifully following guides here. I'm going to be using them as a springboard to learn more about Xen implementation. I saw elsewhere that you had written about running a MythTV backend on unRaid. This idea intrigues me. I've been using a separate mythTV machine to run my backend and it would probably make things a lot more fluid if I can get that either as a docker or as a separate mythbuntu VM. Would you be willing to post a tutorial/guide at some point when you have some time. I am sure that many here would benefit from it.
March 30, 201511 yr dmarcias, Thank you for the info. I wanted to try to use Xen to do the job since I don't quite understand how to use KVM. Perhaps at some point I will migrate to KVM. Incidentally, I have been able to get two VMs (Ubuntu and Windows) running on my unRaid beautifully following guides here. I'm going to be using them as a springboard to learn more about Xen implementation. I saw elsewhere that you had written about running a MythTV backend on unRaid. This idea intrigues me. I've been using a separate mythTV machine to run my backend and it would probably make things a lot more fluid if I can get that either as a docker or as a separate mythbuntu VM. Would you be willing to post a tutorial/guide at some point when you have some time. I am sure that many here would benefit from it. I've helped a few people set up a mythtv backend, I don't mind. I had one previously on Xen but moved to KVM. I have a plugin for KVM VM management. It's stickied under the KVM section. It's really easy to setup a Mythbuntu install. In the plugin there's a Create VM template. Just add the ISO and select a vm image location. Then select a few options and click create.
April 1, 201511 yr dmcias plugin 100% recomendation. I migrate from Xen to KVM for this plugin and for KVM performance
April 6, 201511 yr Author Thanks, dmacias, I installed your plugin in my test system that is running unRaid/Xen. KVM shows up as a separate tab on the GUI. Does this mean I can simultaneously have KVM and XEN based VMs running? I think I read somewhere that I cannot do that.
April 6, 201511 yr Thanks, dmacias, I installed your plugin in my test system that is running unRaid/Xen. KVM shows up as a separate tab on the GUI. Does this mean I can simultaneously have KVM and XEN based VMs running? I think I read somewhere that I cannot do that. No, you can either have XEN or KVM, not both at the same time.
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