Ockingshay Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 Has anybody tried or know how to get the embedded version of the new plex media player working in a VM? There is an intel-64 and a raspberry pi 2 .img This would be a nice little VM to run on an unRAID HTPC alongside steamOS and openelec. I tried converting it into a .iso and creating it under a linux VM (and openelec), but the VM shows "no bootable device" Plex Media Player for embedded devices is a small Linux based operating system that turns your Raspberry Pi 2 or Intel HTPC into a dedicated media playback device. Quote Link to comment
RobJ Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Perhaps I'm being ignorant here, but doesn't the Raspberry PI use an ARM CPU? If so, its code is very different, and there's no chance of getting an img for it to work on an Intel board. I'm pretty sure you need an img that's labeled as i686 code. Unless you're loading an emulator first. But I'm talking off the top of my head, with no experience here, yet! Quote Link to comment
BrianAz Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 They have both Intel 64-bit and Raspberry-Pi embedded versions. I haven't read through this thread thoroughly, but it sounds like it might be somewhat close to what you're looking to achieve: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=42473.0 Quote Link to comment
Ockingshay Posted November 4, 2015 Author Share Posted November 4, 2015 i tried using the openelec profile but it didn't work. I'm not technical enough to know what to tinker to get this to work unfortunately. Does seem to be a clean and tidy solution if it works. Quote Link to comment
Ockingshay Posted November 24, 2015 Author Share Posted November 24, 2015 Well i haven't got very far with this. If somebody needs the Plex Media Player files i can give it to you, but it would be nice to get this installed and running. Quote Link to comment
johnodon Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Well i haven't got very far with this. If somebody needs the Plex Media Player files i can give it to you, but it would be nice to get this installed and running. If you want to dump the x64 version somehwere for me to grab, PM me the locations and I'll see what I can do. John Quote Link to comment
savestheday Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 I have also tried getting this to work with the OpenELEC VM and no go. Any pointers on how to get started? Quote Link to comment
Ockingshay Posted December 2, 2015 Author Share Posted December 2, 2015 I have also tried getting this to work with the OpenELEC VM and no go. Any pointers on how to get started? I couldn't get it to work, but they are make a Linux client, which we might have better luck with. Quote Link to comment
johnodon Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 I'm still tinkering with this. Have you guys looked into OpenPHT? https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/193660/openpht-release John Quote Link to comment
johnodon Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 This is now working in a VM. Follow the guide here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=44683.0 Just replace the OE IMG with the PMP IMG and follow the guide to the letter. Plex Pass required. John Quote Link to comment
jude Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Thanks for that will try it out. Quote Link to comment
ijuarez Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 can someone tell me what is the purpose of this again Quote Link to comment
Ockingshay Posted December 16, 2015 Author Share Posted December 16, 2015 It's plex' new desktop media player but self contained in openelec, instead of having to install it on windows/Mac, allowing it to be installed on various machines. Quote Link to comment
ijuarez Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 It's plex' new desktop media player but self contained in openelec, instead of having to install it on windows/Mac, allowing it to be installed on various machines. oh... i must keep up with this since i am building a new machine to replace the roku sloppy user interface Quote Link to comment
Ockingshay Posted December 16, 2015 Author Share Posted December 16, 2015 It's plex' new desktop media player but self contained in openelec, instead of having to install it on windows/Mac, allowing it to be installed on various machines. oh... i must keep up with this since i am building a new machine to replace the roku sloppy user interface It's another piece to an all in one htpc...but at the moment it's plex pass only. Quote Link to comment
ijuarez Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 It's plex' new desktop media player but self contained in openelec, instead of having to install it on windows/Mac, allowing it to be installed on various machines. oh... i must keep up with this since i am building a new machine to replace the roku sloppy user interface It's another piece to an all in one htpc...but at the moment it's plex pass only. got that cover, lifetime, yes im that awesome Quote Link to comment
johnodon Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 I keep reading that the interface in PMP is plain awful! Quote Link to comment
Ockingshay Posted December 16, 2015 Author Share Posted December 16, 2015 I keep reading that the interface in PMP is plain awful! It's very bare at the moment. Too much like a mobile platform, but I'm sure as it matures it will improve. This is only beta and more of a technical move in architecture to get the platform ready for future incarnations. Quote Link to comment
NotYetRated Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 I keep reading that the interface in PMP is plain awful! You are correct. I have tried it twice now, giving it a full week per try, on my living room setup. I cannot stand it. Convoluted. Takes me 2-4x as many clicks to reach my media as Plex Home Theater does. It is similar to the Plex on Vizio smart tv's. Contemplating a switch to Kodi for my home viewing pleasure, while keeping Plex for on-the-road watching. Quote Link to comment
johnodon Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 I keep reading that the interface in PMP is plain awful! Contemplating a switch to Kodi for my home viewing pleasure, while keeping Plex for on-the-road watching. Exactly what I do now. Although, if you are a PHT fan, check out OpenPHT. Plex made PHT opensource so it may actually get some long awaited love! So far I think only Windows and MACOSX are supported. John Quote Link to comment
beire Posted May 22, 2016 Share Posted May 22, 2016 I got the embedded Image working on unraid yesterday with little effort. Of someone is interested i'll post the details. Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
ijuarez Posted May 22, 2016 Share Posted May 22, 2016 I like details I like to try it. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N920A using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
beire Posted May 23, 2016 Share Posted May 23, 2016 Ok, here goes! First download the Plex Media Player generic image (PlexMediaPlayer-1.1.1.329-cc2cc067.Generic-x86_64, current). Place it somewhere on your unraid server. Create a new linux vm. Be sure to check advanced view. Set machine type to pc-i440fx-2.5 and seabios (not sure if ovmf will work too, but i440fx is necessary for the IDE controller further down) Assign the download img as virtual disk 1. Set as IDE controller! Create a new virtual disk 2,big enough to be the real VM hdd. Set as IDE controller! You should now be able to boot the VM into the installation of plex. The installer should find the second hdd! Just install to this hdd. This should go pretty quick. When the install is finished shut down the VM. Remove the downloaded img from the VM config and place the vdisk 2 you created to the first slot. HDD slot 2 should now be empty. Be sure to set your ethernet bridge correct. Assign your GPU and soundcard (without GPU plex won't boot!) At this point it should boot into plex, but ethernet will not work. Shut down again. Edit the XML file and change the ethernet driver to e1000. (or copy ethernet device from my xml) That is all. Plex should now boot and find your unraid server.! All i had to do now was add the MSI interrupts fix for my passed through gpu hdmi sound. Has been working fine for 3 days now. I have added a copy ofmy XML. (notice i still have the pmp.img configured as cdrom, this is NOT necessary and is just a remainder of previous trial and error.) XML.txt Quote Link to comment
ijuarez Posted May 23, 2016 Share Posted May 23, 2016 Thank you I will try that Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N920A using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
ColdChuck Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 Ok, here goes! First download the Plex Media Player generic image (PlexMediaPlayer-1.1.1.329-cc2cc067.Generic-x86_64, current). Place it somewhere on your unraid server. Create a new linux vm. Be sure to check advanced view. Set machine type to pc-i440fx-2.5 and seabios (not sure if ovmf will work too, but i440fx is necessary for the IDE controller further down) Assign the download img as virtual disk 1. Set as IDE controller! Create a new virtual disk 2,big enough to be the real VM hdd. Set as IDE controller! You should now be able to boot the VM into the installation of plex. The installer should find the second hdd! Just install to this hdd. This should go pretty quick. When the install is finished shut down the VM. Remove the downloaded img from the VM config and place the vdisk 2 you created to the first slot. HDD slot 2 should now be empty. Be sure to set your ethernet bridge correct. Assign your GPU and soundcard (without GPU plex won't boot!) At this point it should boot into plex, but ethernet will not work. Shut down again. Edit the XML file and change the ethernet driver to e1000. (or copy ethernet device from my xml) That is all. Plex should now boot and find your unraid server.! All i had to do now was add the MSI interrupts fix for my passed through gpu hdmi sound. Has been working fine for 3 days now. I have added a copy ofmy XML. (notice i still have the pmp.img configured as cdrom, this is NOT necessary and is just a remainder of previous trial and error.) Thanks Bro! You made my day! Quote Link to comment
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