March 15, 201610 yr Hi Guy's I am new to unraid and only recently came on board and I just want to say well done on a great product so far. I don't usually pay for Linux but in this case unraid saves me so much time and configuration effort it was a no brainer. I use it for my business as well as home entertainment for the family as well as gaming and soon unreal engine development. I use two windows VM's and a Fedora 23 VM for business purposes and a windows 10 VM with GPU and sound card passthrough for gaming and development. All running at the same time with few to no issues other than those reported on the unraid 6.2.18Beta thread. My feature requests will be for additional convenience and considerable time saving which I used on my previous Linux server before moving to unraid 6 and are as follows. 1: qcow2 snapshots. 2: ability to save a VM rather than shut it down. (I understand this may be a problem with VM's that pass-through devices but for the others that don't this will be a massive time saver) 3: Spice server in addition to VNC. 4: Ability to connect to the unraid server using virtmanager or virtviewer (Spice/vnc) from a remote machine. Many thanks and keep up the good work! Regards, sarf.
March 20, 201610 yr +1 I am not that bothered by saving a VM but one thing I am missing for sure is snapshots. Could have saved me a dozen rebuilds of VM's because I screwed something up There is another topic floating around on the snapshot request that mentions that this is coming though but unfortunally it seems its not in this 6.2 beta release yet
March 23, 201610 yr Author You can actually save a VM from the command line which works great! Just a real pain and inconvenience to have to keep running commands. All they need to do here is add it into the menu system and simply run the commands in the background. I haven't tested this with snapshots yet but it's probably already possible via the cli as well.... the command to save a VM is "virsh "domainname" /pathtofile/filename.vmsave" to restore its simply "virsh restore /pathtofilename/filename.vmsave"...
April 29, 201610 yr You can actually save a VM from the command line which works great! Just a real pain and inconvenience to have to keep running commands. All they need to do here is add it into the menu system and simply run the commands in the background. I haven't tested this with snapshots yet but it's probably already possible via the cli as well.... the command to save a VM is "virsh "domainname" /pathtofile/filename.vmsave" to restore its simply "virsh restore /pathtofilename/filename.vmsave"... that sounds like a really easy plugin to build for the time being.
August 1, 20169 yr You can actually save a VM from the command line which works great! Just a real pain and inconvenience to have to keep running commands. All they need to do here is add it into the menu system and simply run the commands in the background. I haven't tested this with snapshots yet but it's probably already possible via the cli as well.... the command to save a VM is "virsh "domainname" /pathtofile/filename.vmsave" to restore its simply "virsh restore /pathtofilename/filename.vmsave"... that sounds like a really easy plugin to build for the time being. If its a case of a simple one liner, just make a user script for it and use the user scripts plugin.
August 1, 20169 yr You can actually save a VM from the command line which works great! Just a real pain and inconvenience to have to keep running commands. All they need to do here is add it into the menu system and simply run the commands in the background. I haven't tested this with snapshots yet but it's probably already possible via the cli as well.... the command to save a VM is "virsh "domainname" /pathtofile/filename.vmsave" to restore its simply "virsh restore /pathtofilename/filename.vmsave"... that sounds like a really easy plugin to build for the time being. If its a case of a simple one liner, just make a user script for it and use the user scripts plugin. I recall JonP stating that in their testing (LT) the snapshotting function was not reliable at this time (within its implementation in UnRAID), and hence why the ability hasn't been added. So if you run it 10 times, and only 8 of them were properly stored it kind of makes this a questionable feature to add until more work can be done to properly support it.
August 10, 20169 yr I recall JonP stating that in their testing (LT) the snapshotting function was not reliable at this time (within its implementation in UnRAID), and hence why the ability hasn't been added. So if you run it 10 times, and only 8 of them were properly stored it kind of makes this a questionable feature to add until more work can be done to properly support it. Can anyone add more to this?? Is it not reliable? Even when done by CLI??
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