smdion Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 .. you can mount the VMDKs thru that. Awesome. Yes, you can, look at this plugin thread (http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=38635.0), you can't mount VMDKs with first releases but it's corrected now by the author. thanks again to gfjardim for this great plugin hmmmm not working for me. I only see the CDROM drive and I have it mounted thru.. ESXi - V6.0 Unassigned Devices Quote Link to comment
uldise Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 hmmmm not working for me. I only see the CDROM drive and I have it mounted thru.. ESXi - V6.0 see here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=26790.msg234667#msg234667 Quote Link to comment
smdion Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 hmmmm not working for me. I only see the CDROM drive and I have it mounted thru.. ESXi - V6.0 see here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=26790.msg234667#msg234667 thanks for that link.. went back to PLOP. Trade off for "easy update" is worth the 5 minutes when I restart every month or so. Quote Link to comment
JimPhreak Posted June 16, 2015 Author Share Posted June 16, 2015 Just got Hyper-V up and running but it looks like there is indeed no way to passthrough USB flash drives (only usb hard drives) as bootable devices in Hyper-V for guests. That's a bummer. Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 Just got Hyper-V up and running but it looks like there is indeed no way to passthrough USB flash drives (only usb hard drives) as bootable devices in Hyper-V for guests. That's a bummer. Yes, that's what I recall from the attempts I made a couple years ago to do it. I guess I had hoped that perhaps a newer version of Hyper-V might have improved on that, but apparently not. Quote Link to comment
smdion Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 I may spin up a Hyper-V VM... on my ESXi.... (i know) to play with this.. but seems interesting... http://blogs.technet.com/b/hollis/archive/2012/02/21/accessing-usb-drives-in-a-hyper-v-vm.aspx Quote Link to comment
JimPhreak Posted June 16, 2015 Author Share Posted June 16, 2015 I may spin up a Hyper-V VM... on my ESXi.... (i know) to play with this.. but seems interesting... http://blogs.technet.com/b/hollis/archive/2012/02/21/accessing-usb-drives-in-a-hyper-v-vm.aspx I saw that post already. Unfortunately you cant take USB flash drives offline only USB hard drives. Quote Link to comment
smdion Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 I may spin up a Hyper-V VM... on my ESXi.... (i know) to play with this.. but seems interesting... http://blogs.technet.com/b/hollis/archive/2012/02/21/accessing-usb-drives-in-a-hyper-v-vm.aspx I saw that post already. Unfortunately you cant take USB flash drives offline only USB hard drives. homerdoh.jpg Quote Link to comment
JimPhreak Posted June 18, 2015 Author Share Posted June 18, 2015 unRAID must be installed on a USB flash device is that correct? It can't be to any type of SSD? The reason I'm asking is that I was able to get it to boot and run on Hyper-V using a VHD and a 16GB SATA DOM but I get a flash device error probably because unRAID can't read the GUID off the SSD. Since there is no way to passthrough USB flash drives to Hyper-V guests, if usb flash drives are the only way to install unRAID then it looks like unRAID as an option on Hyper-V is officially dead until they start supporting USB flash drive passthrough. In which case my Hyper-V experiment will officially end. Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 Yes, the key verification requires a flash drive ... that's the issue that always comes up when trying this in Hyper-V. I believe you can run the free version of v5 okay, since it doesn't require a key (and possibly the v6 trial); but any version that requires a key will fail. It will boot off a VHD with no problem ... it just has to have the flash drive for key verification. That's how many folks do it with ESXi, as it's much faster than booting directly off the flash drive. [30 sec boot vs. 5 minutes] But as I understand it, there's no way to pass the flash drive through to a VM in Hyper-V so it will validate it correctly. That's been the problem every time I've seen attempts to use Hyper-V for the past few years ... guess it still is :'( Quote Link to comment
JimPhreak Posted June 18, 2015 Author Share Posted June 18, 2015 Yes, the key verification requires a flash drive ... that's the issue that always comes up when trying this in Hyper-V. I believe you can run the free version of v5 okay, since it doesn't require a key (and possibly the v6 trial); but any version that requires a key will fail. It will boot off a VHD with no problem ... it just has to have the flash drive for key verification. That's how many folks do it with ESXi, as it's much faster than booting directly off the flash drive. [30 sec boot vs. 5 minutes] But as I understand it, there's no way to pass the flash drive through to a VM in Hyper-V so it will validate it correctly. That's been the problem every time I've seen attempts to use Hyper-V for the past few years ... guess it still is :'( Yea if it must be a flash drive then it won't work. I got it to boot off VHD but when it looks at the SATA DOM I also have attached to the VM, unRAID shows a flash device error at the top of the screen as you can see below. This is a fresh install on unRAID 6 with no license key on the VHD or SATA DOM. Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 Just out of curiosity, while you're "playing around" with this, what happens if you boot with v5? Quote Link to comment
JimPhreak Posted June 18, 2015 Author Share Posted June 18, 2015 Just out of curiosity, while you're "playing around" with this, what happens if you boot with v5? With unRAID 5 when I try to boot the VM it can't find the UNRAID boot device. Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 That screen looks like UnRAID booted fine. Are you not able to access //Tower from a browser at that point? Quote Link to comment
JimPhreak Posted June 18, 2015 Author Share Posted June 18, 2015 That screen looks like UnRAID booted fine. Are you not able to access //Tower from a browser at that point? ifconfig eth0 shows "device not found." EDIT: I just remembered jon said they added Hyper-V guest drivers in version 6b12. Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 ... I just remembered jon said they added Hyper-V guest drivers in version 6b12. Ahh yes, I'd forgotten that as well Guess the bottom line is this still isn't going to work with Hyper-V ... and likely won't unless Hyper-V is updated to allow USB passthrough. Quote Link to comment
JimPhreak Posted June 18, 2015 Author Share Posted June 18, 2015 ... I just remembered jon said they added Hyper-V guest drivers in version 6b12. Ahh yes, I'd forgotten that as well Guess the bottom line is this still isn't going to work with Hyper-V ... and likely won't unless Hyper-V is updated to allow USB passthrough. Yea. I think at this point I'm going to re-install ESXi and try 6b15 which seems to not have the USB reset errors which seems to kill the performance of unRAID for me. I'm just trying to figure out if I'm missing out on any features in 6b15 that are in the final release. Quote Link to comment
pantner Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 check out the other thread, a link was posted yesterday re: USB passthrough for Hyper-V. No idea if it works, but it might Quote Link to comment
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