I have been running unRAID 64bit on various Distros for over a month. I have thrown everything I can at it.
Countless parity checks
Drive Failures (unplugging the drive)
Installed some Drives that are faulty
Rebuilding the raid numerous times after drive replacement
Adding / Removing Drives
Using the mover function to move TBs of data (which would not be needed since you aren't doing plugins)
Running 50 or so of the most popular Linux Apps
I have loaded 10+ VMs
Crashed VMs
Running it on a HDD and Flash Drive
Having several HDs that are LVMs for the VMs outside of unRAID.
Etc.
Everything worked as it should. When I crashed a VMs it didn't crash the Linux Distro (unRAID)... Just the VM.
Hardware Support
I added over 2,000+ kernel modules. To put that in comparison unRAID only has 170 or so.
All your Sata, SCSI, Network, Video, Sound, IR, TV Tuners, Fiber, Block Devices, Input, Hardware Monitoring, USB, etc. will work out of the box. If it works in Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, CentOS, etc.) it will work here too.
Additional Network Transports
NFS4
Samba4
iSCSI
AoE
VirtFS
Security
If your unRAID is exposed to the internet, most of the packages installed on it are 3+ years old with TONS of security flaws. PHP, Samba, NFS, SSH, etc. The Plugin guys do a good job of keeping the packages they need (like python, python-cheetah, mysql, etc.) up to date but those still run on a very unRAID which hasn't had many updates in 3+ years.
For those of who you have nVidia Cards that want to pass them through to XBMCs throughout your house
You can passthrough NVIDIA GEFORCE 7, 8, 4xx, 5xx, 6xx. On ESXi or Xen you cannot do this unless you have an Nvidia Quattro, Tesla or GRID series or upload firmware and make your 5xx or 6xx thinks it one. ESxi is probably a year or two away. Xen cannot do this at the moment unless you patch patch it but with the next release 4.4 (which starts RC anyday) you will be able to.
Significantly increase the speeds of your transfers rates / file transfers between Hosts and VMs?
Virtfs is a virtualization aware filesystem passthrough.. Sharing host files on the guest through generic network file systems like NFS and CIFS suffer from major performance and feature deficiencies as these protocols are not designed or optimized for virtualization. To address the needs of the virtualization paradigm... Virtfs, a new paravirtualized file system with uses the 9p2000.L protocol.
Your host (unRAID) will share it's files to your VMs using VirtFS (A Paravirtualized File Transport).
VirtFS vs NFS and Samba
Countless parity checks
Drive Failures (unplugging the drive)
Installed some Drives that are faulty
Rebuilding the raid numerous times after drive replacement
Adding / Removing Drives
Using the mover function to move TBs of data (which would not be needed since you aren't doing plugins)
Running 50 or so of the most popular Linux Apps
I have loaded 10+ VMs
Crashed VMs
Running it on a HDD and Flash Drive
Having several HDs that are LVMs for the VMs outside of unRAID.
Etc.
Everything worked as it should. When I crashed a VMs it didn't crash the Linux Distro (unRAID)... Just the VM.
Hardware Support
I added over 2,000+ kernel modules. To put that in comparison unRAID only has 170 or so.
All your Sata, SCSI, Network, Video, Sound, IR, TV Tuners, Fiber, Block Devices, Input, Hardware Monitoring, USB, etc. will work out of the box. If it works in Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, CentOS, etc.) it will work here too.
Additional Network Transports
NFS4
Samba4
iSCSI
AoE
VirtFS
Security
If your unRAID is exposed to the internet, most of the packages installed on it are 3+ years old with TONS of security flaws. PHP, Samba, NFS, SSH, etc. The Plugin guys do a good job of keeping the packages they need (like python, python-cheetah, mysql, etc.) up to date but those still run on a very unRAID which hasn't had many updates in 3+ years.
For those of who you have nVidia Cards that want to pass them through to XBMCs throughout your house
You can passthrough NVIDIA GEFORCE 7, 8, 4xx, 5xx, 6xx. On ESXi or Xen you cannot do this unless you have an Nvidia Quattro, Tesla or GRID series or upload firmware and make your 5xx or 6xx thinks it one. ESxi is probably a year or two away. Xen cannot do this at the moment unless you patch patch it but with the next release 4.4 (which starts RC anyday) you will be able to.
Significantly increase the speeds of your transfers rates / file transfers between Hosts and VMs?
Virtfs is a virtualization aware filesystem passthrough.. Sharing host files on the guest through generic network file systems like NFS and CIFS suffer from major performance and feature deficiencies as these protocols are not designed or optimized for virtualization. To address the needs of the virtualization paradigm... Virtfs, a new paravirtualized file system with uses the 9p2000.L protocol.
Your host (unRAID) will share it's files to your VMs using VirtFS (A Paravirtualized File Transport).
VirtFS vs NFS and Samba
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