January 25, 201610 yr I'm getting frustrated with problems running unraid with a windows VM inside. Can esxi run on windows? Can I have a windows 10 pc that functions normal for the most part with unraid in a VM? I basically want to go from this: UNRAID->KVM->Win10 to this: Win10->esxi->UNRAID Does that make sense? Is it even feasible? Been running unraid for years, would just love to combine my two separate pc's (unraid and gaming/productivity desktop).
January 25, 201610 yr No. Run esxi as the base hypervisor then run unraid and win10 on top of that. Esxi > unraid Esxi > win10
January 25, 201610 yr Author So, hyper-v would do what I want to do, correct (in theory)? But it won't work because the USB flash can't be passed through.
January 25, 201610 yr Yes, Hyper-V would do what you've asked EXCEPT that UnRAID won't run under Hyper-V. At least nobody has, to my knowledge, been able to make it work. But UnRAID works fine under ESXi, and so does Windows. So you could do as Brit noted above ... run both of them under ESXi, which would eliminate any impact of UnRAID issues/reboots/etc. on your Windows 10 system.
January 25, 201610 yr Author Thanks for the input guys. Not sure which direction I'll go. Just trying to get the most transparent function for my family who will also be using this. Wondering if I should've just kept everything separate.
January 25, 201610 yr ... Wondering if I should've just kept everything separate. That's certainly the best way to ensure there's no interaction between them when you need to power off; reboot; change hardware; etc. That's what I do with all of my systems -- HTPC's, servers, and our main systems. Although I do have over 70 virtual machines for various purposes [Most I built to either "play" with a new OS or to have every OS available so when somebody's having an issue with something I can "boot" to the same OS and help them.]
January 25, 201610 yr ... Wondering if I should've just kept everything separate. That's certainly the best way to ensure there's no interaction between them when you need to power off; reboot; change hardware; etc. That's what I do with all of my systems -- HTPC's, servers, and our main systems. Although I do have over 70 virtual machines for various purposes [Most I built to either "play" with a new OS or to have every OS available so when somebody's having an issue with something I can "boot" to the same OS and help them.] So did you get triple dog dared to try all the operating systems currently available and you were like challenge accepted?
January 26, 201610 yr ... Wondering if I should've just kept everything separate. That's certainly the best way to ensure there's no interaction between them when you need to power off; reboot; change hardware; etc. That's what I do with all of my systems -- HTPC's, servers, and our main systems. Although I do have over 70 virtual machines for various purposes [Most I built to either "play" with a new OS or to have every OS available so when somebody's having an issue with something I can "boot" to the same OS and help them.] So did you get triple dog dared to try all the operating systems currently available and you were like challenge accepted? :) My VM collection has been built-up over the course of quite a few years. I do, of course, add a few as folks ask about other OS's ... e.g. I just added an "Elementary OS" VM this week when somebody asked about it here.
January 26, 201610 yr My VM collection has been built-up over the course of quite a few years. I do, of course, add a few as folks ask about other OS's ... e.g. I just added an "Elementary OS" VM this week when somebody asked about it here. Do you have Pardus in your collection? It's an interesting linux build. http://www.portal.pardustopluluk.org/indir
January 26, 201610 yr ... Do you have Pardus in your collection? It's an interesting linux build. Okay, I downloaded and installed it ... and it's in Turkish !! How can I switch the language to English??
January 26, 201610 yr ... Do you have Pardus in your collection? It's an interesting linux build. Okay, I downloaded and installed it ... and it's in Turkish !! How can I switch the language to English?? Hehe, I'm just wondering if jonathan knew that all along...
January 26, 201610 yr Well now that my curiosity is really sparked... Do you also keep 3 backups of all 70 VMs?
January 26, 201610 yr Well now that my curiosity is really sparked... Do you also keep 3 backups of all 70 VMs? Yes ... they're backed up on one of my UnRAID servers; and of course I have a complete backup of that server [by the way 70 is really a notable understatement ... that's just my current collection of VMware VM's => I also have a significant number of earlier VM's from Virtual PC and a few from other hypervisors (Virtual Box, etc.) that I no longer use ... but of course have backups of them "just in case". Probably 34-40 or so.]
January 26, 201610 yr ... Do you have Pardus in your collection? It's an interesting linux build. Okay, I downloaded and installed it ... and it's in Turkish !! How can I switch the language to English?? Hehe, I'm just wondering if jonathan knew that all along... Well, I knew it started in Turkish, but the version I used was from 2011, I haven't looked at the new versions. Apparently it's changed in the new(ish) release. I still occasionally use the VM I have of the earlier version, and it was ahead of it's time when it came out for ease of use, look and feel, etc, for a linux distro. http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/reviews/pardus-2013-review-the-mighty-have-fallen Here is a link that has locations for the 2011 version, if you are interested. http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=06471
January 27, 201610 yr Author Yes, Hyper-V would do what you've asked EXCEPT that UnRAID won't run under Hyper-V. At least nobody has, to my knowledge, been able to make it work. But UnRAID works fine under ESXi, and so does Windows. So you could do as Brit noted above ... run both of them under ESXi, which would eliminate any impact of UnRAID issues/reboots/etc. on your Windows 10 system. So the whole hyper-v issue is purely that the usb can't be passed through, is that correct? I guess Unraid has no interest in changing the licensing strategy just for the users that want to run Hyper-V?
January 27, 201610 yr So the whole hyper-v issue is purely that the usb can't be passed through, is that correct? I guess Unraid has no interest in changing the licensing strategy just for the users that want to run Hyper-V? Correct. Most likely wont change.
January 27, 201610 yr ... Do you have Pardus in your collection? It's an interesting linux build. Okay, I downloaded and installed it ... and it's in Turkish !! How can I switch the language to English?? Hehe, I'm just wondering if jonathan knew that all along... Well, I knew it started in Turkish, but the version I used was from 2011, I haven't looked at the new versions. Apparently it's changed in the new(ish) release. I still occasionally use the VM I have of the earlier version, and it was ahead of it's time when it came out for ease of use, look and feel, etc, for a linux distro. http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/reviews/pardus-2013-review-the-mighty-have-fallen Here is a link that has locations for the 2011 version, if you are interested. http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=06471 Actually that link has the English distro for the current version as well ... killed the one I created in Turkish and re-installed in English ... works just fine
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