Hi,

How should I do that to obtain best performance. I want to play a movie located in one of my shares from my debian vm.

Rgds

Edited November 25, 20205 yr by luca2

ok, after some research I found some info and this is what I did to solve it...

edit vm xml and add in the GUI**:

 "unraid share"=/mnt/user0/movies/
 "unraid mount tag"=movies

then in the vm do this (or any folder you want):

    mkdir /home/ws1/movies 

then:

sudo -s nano /etc/fstab

and add at the end this line:

movies /home/ws1/movies 9p trans=virtio,version=9p2000.L,_netdev,rw 0 0

Reboot and that's it.

 

**the edit of the xml does this:

 

    <filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'>
      <source dir='/mnt/user0/movies/'/>
      <target dir='movies'/>
      <alias name='fs0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x03' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
    </filesystem>

I still have a question: if I want to add a second mapped unraid share ... can I just follow the same procedure and add this to the xml?

 

    <filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'>
      <source dir='/mnt/user0/series/'/>
      <target dir='series'/>
      <alias name='fs0'/>
     
    </filesystem>

 

Why are you using /mnt/user0/ instead of /mnt/user/ ?

2 minutes ago, trurl said:

Why are you using /mnt/user0/ instead of /mnt/user/ ?

Since it does not include system/appdata/domains shares I choosed user0. I don't want those system shares to be shared to the vm. I access them only with krusader's plugin.

Anything I may be missing?

32 minutes ago, luca2 said:

Anything I may be missing?

user0 is the user shares excluding any files that may still be on cache. If any of those other user shares are cached then they may have new files there at times.

10 hours ago, trurl said:

user0 is the user shares excluding any files that may still be on cache. If any of those other user shares are cached then they may have new files there at times.

Hi, thx for pointing this out. It does not apply to me since I do not use cache for my shares. I only use cache for storing the vdisks.

10 hours ago, luca2 said:

Can anyone confirm if I can add a second mapped unraid share by just editing the xml? Or maybe this may have any impact that I am not aware off?

 

Just now, luca2 said:

Hi, thx for pointing this out. It does not apply to me since I do not use cache for my shares. I only use cache for storing the vdisks.

If shares are set to not use the cache then /mnt/user and /mnt/user0 will have exactly the same contents for such shares.

 

it is also worth pointing out that Limetech have already said that use of /mnt/user0 is deprecated and it may be removed in a future Unraid release.

ok, thx for this info. didn´t know that it will be deprecated in a future.

 

On 11/25/2020 at 10:19 PM, luca2 said:

**the edit of the xml does this:

 

    <filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'>
      <source dir='/mnt/user0/movies/'/>
      <target dir='movies'/>
      <alias name='fs0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x03' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
    </filesystem>

I still have a question: if I want to add a second mapped unraid share ... can I just follow the same procedure and add this to the xml?

 

    <filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'>
      <source dir='/mnt/user0/series/'/>
      <target dir='series'/>
      <alias name='fs0'/>
     
    </filesystem>

 

Hi all, I would also like to know how to add new mount tags after creation of a VM. Adding them in the Unraid WebGUI editor does not seem to work on my system.

Best,

OP

Sorry for replying to this old post. Is it also possible to mount the share with systemd instead of within fstab?