I'm thinking of building NAS powered by unraid. But one thing I need is a onedrive. Right now, I have a gaming rig that has a OneDrive and is shared within the network. The Onedrive folder contains media folder that is being used for plex.

I read that I could have Windows VM on Unraid, and it got me thinking whether I could have the following solution:

[*]Have a folder within unraid

[*]Create Windows VM

[*]Share the unraid folder with vm (I'm assuming/hoping it works much like virtualbox)

[*]Change OneDrive Target Folder to the unraid shared folder within VM

[*]Setup Plex Media Server and add the media folder within one drive

 

With the approach above, I'm assuming I'm having to give up at least a CPU core for having windows running, but I could go and get a cheap quad core cpu to compensate.

Could you please tell me if this is possible? Am I on a right track?

 

thanks!

You could map a network drive over SMB to a unRAID share to accomplish this.

From your windows VM that is...

Are you suggesting to share the folder within Windows VM? My concern is that I don't really wat to rely on the windows vm. IF aything I want to use the VM jus to sync with onedrve, and nothing else. For all the other usage, like sharing the folder within network, I wanted to use UNRAID. After all that's what NAS is suppoed to do, right?

No. Opposite of that. You make a share on unRAID, browse to it like you would any other NAS (use Windows explorer), then right click the share, select "map network drive".

 

Oh got it, thought you were saying I share the folder within VM.

Do you see any issues with this approach? would you happen to know if there is anyway to minimize the windows footprint? Considering all I will the VM do is sync OneDrive with internet, I want to make sure windows won't take too much resources. I could give up 1/4 of CPU core from plex to VM, but it would be great if there's a way for me to not even give up 1 core...

You don't have to "give up" anything. Just assign 1 core.  Heck, assign all your cores.  That doesn't matter at all for your use case. When you assign a CPU to a VM, it doesn't make that CPU exclusive go that VM. It just limits what CPUs the VM can access.

Ohh good to know, I thought it was dedicating the core to the VM, and other applications even the ones on the host cannot access it. I'm learning new things everyday!! thanks for the help and I'll now get my hands dirty!

Nope, the only way to completely isolate cores from the host is to use a kernel append parameter called isolcpus.

 

Glad we got you sorted and good luck on your setup!!