unRAID as guest under unRAID

[ken-ji]

Hi,

 

I was wondering and messing about, but it seems possible to setup a unRAID guest under unRAID.

 

As this will not be a production unRAID server, but rather a TEST VM for developing plugins or dockers, I am wondering if there are any known issues, side-effects.

 

What I find interesting is the possibility of unlimited / user defined USB Flash serial numbers (ie infinite flash GUIDs) that anybody can use to register a trial or heaven forbid - actual registrations.

 

[Squid]

Hi,

 

I was wondering and messing about, but it seems possible to setup a unRAID guest under unRAID.

 

As this will not be a production unRAID server, but rather a TEST VM for developing plugins or dockers, I am wondering if there are any known issues, side-effects.

 

What I find interesting is the possibility of unlimited / user defined USB Flash serial numbers (ie infinite flash GUIDs) that anybody can use to register a trial or heaven forbid - actual registrations.

There is a video by grid runner on doing this.  You do require a USB with either a trial key or a registered version.

[ljm42]

Also see this comment:

  https://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=44681.msg482553#msg482553

for modifications to the excellent LS.IO blog on this topic.

 

Note that this means you will have an extra USB drive in your system, which triggers this annoying but harmless bug:

  https://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=52052.msg499727#msg499727

 

[ken-ji]

Thanks, was looking for these posts and couldn't quite google/search them out.

Actually, I just got around to checking and just learned that a virtual USB in QEMU has a fixed product and vendor id pair. Which makes it very easy for LT to blacklist the entire GUID space. But I can still do my limited testing first.

 

 

Thanks.