all right guys so that covers backups as well and finally the last thing i'm going to show you to
end the video is how to pass through unraid i know some of you are using android well i'm still using
unraid as well and a few comments last week might have been you know a little bit unsure we didn't
make it clear and they may have got the impression that we are completely walking away from unread
that's not the case at all guys we're actually we love unraid and we still use it side by side
with this setup we're just expanding our content so we still use it and we still have it running
and we really enjoy it we're just showing some more options for those who are looking for them
and the community response was pretty clear they love seeing more options so that's what we're
doing so let's say we wanted to pass through a virtual machine so that we can get unread going
how do we do that so i showed you earlier how to actually configure the virtual machine
options when we click create vm the first things first i'll show you the hardware that we've got
configured under hardware here we've got memory so four gig of ram a dual core processor and the
reason is we're not actually this isn't our live unread server i'm just doing this to show you guys
how we can set it up so if it's going to be your actual unraid server and you want it running
through proxmox give it the resources that you want and the same thing applies here give it the
processor that is the host so if we go down and we select host okay you give that the host scroll
down further these are the virtual disks i've allocated to the vm for the purposes of this video
and so you would select the disks that you have on your actual server now in my case here i've
got a 50 gig that has some different settings and the reason is that's our cache disk if click edit
you can set that to right through and then discard if you check advanced you can also select ssd
emulation now if you know that the disk is on an ssd then you can emulate that directly into the
vm in your case you may not have a virtual disk you may have actually passed through a physical
nvme or ssd disk which is your cache in that case make sure you select ssd emulation here
once you're done go ahead and click ok the other thing we need to add is a usb
as you know if you're using unraid it runs on a usb so go ahead and click add usb device and
then select the device from the list here's mine here so we would select cruiser fit
and one final thing that we'll do before we start the virtual machine is the boot priority so if we
then go to options and under boot order we'll select that click on edit and then find the usb
that we passed through which is right here check it as enabled and then move it up to the top
now i think we're pretty much ready to start this up let's see how it looks click on start and then
open the console so here we go unrate os starting so straight away the usb has been detected
now in our scenario here the ip address that unraid is actually living on is our old ip
address that has now been reassigned elsewhere so what we can do is reboot it again and then
select the gui mode and we'll change the ip address that way and so what i had to do was
just boot into the gui mode off the usb change it here and now i can access it through our browser
so what i'm going to do just to get out of the gui mode is actually just reboot it again
and here we are in our normal browser we can now access it via the network and it should all just
carry on as we were of course you're talking about different disks if you've already formatted your
disks or anything like that so it's up to you how you want to set this up the important thing
is though this gives you an actual place to test new releases of unread and other sorts of os's
without harming your main system so if you're still running unraid as your main server and
that's your host that's perfectly fine maybe have a small server sitting at home that you can set
up with proxmox just to test stuff out without harming your main system the alternative is of
course you can run those vms directly on android 2 but the proxmox options to give you backups and
things like that may be beneficial for you so that you can backup a release before testing it
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