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pepar:
I have just gotten to the point in my researching JRiver and how to use it with the infrastructure already in place.  unRAID server .. I need to set up a VM and run Media Server/Media Network from there. Check.

My unRAID loads/runs from a USB thumbdrive, so it's not installed, per se.  I know I can set up the VM and have it be part of the unRAID boot, but can I set up JRiver and have it load from the thumbdrive as well?  Presently the drive is 16GB; is that large enough?

Finally, I used a dual core Pentium for what I thought would be a simple file server.  Do in need to upgrade that to run JRiver media server in a VM?  Ditto the present 8GB of system memory?  Are these questions I should ask on the Lime Technology forum?

Jeff

mattkhan:
I don't think it is possible to partition the usb drive and use the second partition as a cache drive. You would need to check on their forum to be certain of that though.

8G to run unraid and a single VM for jriver is plenty. Whether a dual core Pentium is sufficient depends on how you use it (and which Pentium it is), if the server never transcodes video then i would think it would be fine. In practice, i think this means your server needs to run the same OS as all the clients.

pepar:
Thanks.  I have begun to wade into the unRAID VM Wiki and will take up the deeper details on their forum.

Jeff

blgentry:
VMs are great for lots of things.  For a media server I think it's a foolish endeavor.  Bare metal eliminates a lot of performance concerns, driver issues, and general layering concerns.  Just my opinion.

Brian.

pepar:

--- Quote from: blgentry on April 12, 2017, 05:23:31 pm ---VMs are great for lots of things.  For a media server I think it's a foolish endeavor.  Bare metal eliminates a lot of performance concerns, driver issues, and general layering concerns.  Just my opinion.

Brian.

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Thanks for the advice.  I already have a large library on a perfectly working unRAID server.  I had been using Popcorn Hour client streaming devices with my movies but found the software inadequate when it came to adding my music to the server. Research lead me to JRiver. I was about to begin a trial when my dive into JRiver took me to Library, Media Sever and Media Network.  So here I am.

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