Hi guys, I recently switched to unraid following the tips and taking the plunge, but I see now that most of my games don't support Network installations and I was wondering if it's possible to fool windows into thinking my games folder is a drive? I suppose I have to create a secondary vDisk? But that just means my games folder would be one big .img?

 

What solutions do you guys run in this scenario?

 

thanks!

There are several methods you can try from simple network drive mapping to symlinks, etc. Jonp posted a video on this, check the lime-tech blogs.

Here it is: https://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=40777.0

Thanks. That's the "tips" I mentioned. Symlink doesn't work. So it appears like I would have to go the 2nd vdisk route and mount that as a drive within my VM (some guys did a VHD and mounts it within windows, I'd rather have the VM take care of it)

 

Which game(s) won't install on the network drive?

go the hardlink route - that does work

 

Myk

 

go the hardlink route - that does work

 

Myk

 

Didn't work for me with Minecraft (and others).

I just created a vdisk with an appropriate size and copied my games folder there. Not the nice/smooth "lets move 1 game to cache and keep the rest on the array" like the video, but works in fooling the software it's on a logical drive