VM installable Developer Version possible?

[SlrG]

Hi Limetech team,

 

would it maybe be possible to release a developer version, which is not dependant on an usb guid and is thus installable in a vm? With the old versions that was possible, but it isn't anymore in the newer versions. It would be extremely helpful to develop cross version compatible plugins and test them. As I don't want to hurt limetechs sales, I imagine it could be limited in disk number and/or size. So maybe allow flash, parity, cache and one array disk as virtual hdd volumes with 500 mb each. That should be large enough to allow development and testing at the same time be small enough to not appeal to the public as an alternative to the paid licenses.

 

regards,

 

SlrG

[jonp]

This idea has been tossed around before.  It is something we are open to, but to be perfectly honest, it falls a little lower on the priority list right now.  It would require us to maintain an entirely separate release of unRAID (complete build) in addition to what we already maintain.  Longer term, we may find an alternative way to address this, but for right now, if you are a developer and need a secondary license for test/dev, please send me a PM and we will address these requests on a one-by-one basis.

[SlrG]

Well, I have a secondary pro key. The problem for me is, that it is tied to the usb drive so it is not easy to use in a vm environment. I don't really want to build a secondary server to do develepment on. I fully understand this is to prevent illegal usage and I don't want to change that.

 

What I miss however is, that using the old "unlicensend" version, it was possible to do development in virtual machines. The now time limited test version makes it hard to use it in a vm. To use the full version, a physical usb drive with the tied usb key would have to be attached to the development pc (a laptop in my case) and passed to the vm. That makes it hard to do cross version development.

 

I don't know what internal changes would be necessary. My wish would be for a "developer key", that would not be tied to the usb drive and allow booting up a limited unRAID environment (like I described above). I understand however, this is low priority and maybe not so easy to implement. So I'll stop bugging and hope it gets adressed one way or another later on. Thank you all, for your great product.

[Squid]

I would love something like this...  In my situation, I don't even require access to any array drives (beyond a cache drive for docker images)  Would make it so much easier for me to test, test, and retest without having to wait until the server is not being used for streaming so that I can reset...

[peter_sm]

I have a second USB with a pro licence. I have set up a KVM Unraid machine that I pass trough that USB to,  I then have set up small qemu images as drives. In this VM I then can play with new things instead on my bare metal server. The key is to hide that USB during the server are booting ;-)