April 1, 20179 yr Brand new to unRAID. I created an Ubuntu VM and I'm trying to use it over VNC. How should I access my NAS from within the guest? Should I just use NFS? I enabled it on one of my user shares and within the guest I just ran "mount lamename:/mnt/user/stuff /nas/stuff" and it seemed to work. Is there a better best practice for accessing the host filesystem? I know both VirtualBox and VMWare support their own sharing mechanisms, does KVM as well? Another issue I'm having is that the VNC viewer seems pretty bad. The keys I type like to repeat sometimes like thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis. I cannot get "Remote resizing" scaling mode to work. Is there something I have to do within the guest OS to enable this feature? Eventually the entire thing becomes so slow that I need to quit the VNC viewer and launch a new one. It's basically unusable right now. Eventually (once I get a second graphics card) I'll want to run my VM with the GPU and wouldn't necessarily want to use VNC, but that'll come later.
April 1, 20179 yr 8 minutes ago, eric.frederich said: I created an Ubuntu VM and I'm trying to use it over VNC The built in NoVNC web viewer is pretty bad, try using a real standalone client like ultravnc, remmina with vnc addon or similar. Eventually the NoVNC may be fixed in a future release, but for now it's pretty unusable. 14 minutes ago, eric.frederich said: How should I access my NAS from within the guest? If you are familiar with NFS, that's fine. Many people just use the standard samba (cifs) to attach to the shares, performance should be pretty similar. For linux based guests you can use 9p virtio to map the host drives, but in my experience the performance is pretty bad. Admittedly I haven't tried it in a couple years, so it may be better now.
April 1, 20179 yr Author 19 minutes ago, jonathanm said: The built in NoVNC web viewer is pretty bad, try using a real standalone client like ultravnc, remmina with vnc addon or similar. Eventually the NoVNC may be fixed in a future release, but for now it's pretty unusable. I just downloaded ultravnc. I don't see the guest resizing itself at all when I maximize the viewer. Is there something I need to install on the guest for this to work? This isn't the guest itself running VNC server is it?... it's KVM or something else right?
April 1, 20179 yr You are correct, if you are using unraid's IP, it's KVM that's running the VNC server. I think if you use QXL video it should resize, but I could be wrong. Best bet would probably be to set up the VNC server in the guest.
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