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SWL, what's the VM solution you use? Is unraid required?
My i3 mobo isn't compatible with VMware. I might use that to experiment as its a 35W solution. No need for more drives just yet as I'm at 6TB free.
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While I am using unraid as my VM host, you don't really need to, but they do have a free trial thingy.
But, unraid runs on Slackware Linux, and for VM they just use KVM, both if which are open source., so you could just do it without unRAID.
But unraid makes it so much easier... Easy Web ui
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Oy. OK. I created a Ubuntu VM to play with, I'm shocked that automounting an smb is still a pita. At least according to what I've found via Google. How's Slackware?
I wanted to use it for plex but it was more work than I wanted. I'll sacrifice the m$ license to avoid all the required manual hacking.
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Well, I just got a dual-gigabit NIC, put it in. VMWare picked it right up thankfully. I got a slightly nicer one, $120 on Amazon and the seller was 30 miles away so showed up within 36 hours of the order. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0057B...UTF8&psc=1 ($145 on newegg oddly)
This time I think i'll actually read up on VMWare, vswitches, and the like before just slamming it in and effing things up again.
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Slackware is basic unix/Linux command line every thing... Manual everything...
That is why unraid's guiding everything is so nice...
As a side note, the plex docker is so simple to setup...
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good god, the next time I (or anyone) says "if i'm going to switch to virtual machines, i'm going to start with clean Windows installs and build up instead of just p2v'ing my years of accumulated junk", we need to all punch them in the mouth.
So far PlayOn is the only app that went quickly.
Plex doesn't want to recognize files in all my directories, even though my old Plex is still up and scanning the same directories just fine.
CQC, I have another thread on.
SQL*Server refuses to even install, claims missing stuff.
Moving Adobe's Lightroom catalog requires moving tons of different files in different locations.
But hey - at least I don't have a 180GB SagePlexSQLServer VM and a 140GB AdobeCQC instance. I can't do much right now but i'm saving space...
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One more lesson learned: Time in a VM doesn't track to real time. (This totally screws with my DVR recording).
I found this page about options to correct it. Looks like its running slow on a regular basis, as in degrading minutes per hour. I'll have to figure out how to constantly check it if I can't find a real fix.
https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/micros...Id=1006072
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you should always set your machines to use an NTP server anyways so this never becomes an issue. 
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jkmonroe Wrote:you should always set your machines to use an NTP server anyways so this never becomes an issue.
IIRC NTP only syncs 1x/week or so, right? And you can't change it?
I couldn't find another mechanism, so i'm running w32tm /resync every 5 minutes. I'm seeing RAPID degradation on one VM, close to 5 seconds every minute. Others aren't as bad, but still something like 10 seconds every 5 minutes.
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wow, I am starting to understand why IVB does the whole "consulting" gig...
just like the handful of consultants I have run into, he has grand ideas...
but when it comes to actually attempting to execute on those ideas, that is when the fun starts...:tounge
but anyway, have you considered using dockers instead of a boat load of VM's? might as well throw more variables into the mix as you are doing so well with the ones you already got...
my Plex & Sage dockers are doing just fine...
super simple to setup, and they just work... or scratch that idea, IVB obviously does not like things that just work...:-)
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