Plex inside VirtualBox

[Miniwehats]

Hello,

I am wondering if there is any issues with running Plex (PMS) inside a VM running off of Virtuabox Jail?

Only reason I would do it this way vs running Plex on its own jail is, the windows version gets updated quicker and is more simple to update and manage.

Right now I have it running on a Windows 7 VM and seems to run just fine, I had some networking issues but enabled Bridge Mode on the VM and everything has been fine.

Would this cause too much stress on my NAS? Constant Reads/Writes on ZFS?

Specs:

15 3.2ghz Haswell
16gb ram
VM has 4 cores capped at 60%. - Should I only give it 3 to leave 1 core for Freenas? Or increase the Cap to 80%? My CPU usage on Freenas never really goes above ~10% .

My NAS is mainly a storage hub for my Plex media, I run a FTP server and a small Minecraft server here and there. Other than that the NAS does not have a high work load.

Thank you!

 

[pirateghost]

That doesn't make sense. A jail with Plex installed is pretty damn easy to update. 'pkg update && pkg upgrade'

 

[depasseg]

Only reason I would do it this way vs running Plex on its own jail is, the windows version gets updated quicker and is more simple to update and manage.

I agree with just running it in a jail. However, I have seen (and read about) a lag in the pkg's. So this is the way I update. I got it from the plex forums.

Code:

root@plexmediaserver_1:~ # more how-to-upgrade-plex.txt
fetch --no-verify-peer -o PMS_Updater.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mstinaff/PMS_Updater/master/PMS_Updater.sh
chmod 755 PMS_Updater.sh
./PMS_Updater.sh -u plexusername -p mypassword -a -v

 

[fracai]

That doesn't make sense. A jail with Plex installed is pretty damn easy to update. 'pkg update && pkg upgrade'

You don't even need to "update" first as the "upgrade" will run "update" first if it's needed.

So this is the way I update. I got it from the plex forums.

Code:

root@plexmediaserver_1:~ # more how-to-upgrade-plex.txt
fetch --no-verify-peer -o PMS_Updater.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mstinaff/PMS_Updater/master/PMS_Updater.sh
chmod 755 PMS_Updater.sh
./PMS_Updater.sh -u plexusername -p mypassword -a -v

Is that to update a manual install of Plex? Or are you updating the install that was originally provided by "pkg"?

Never mind. I looked at the updater script and it's for updating Plex as installed as a plugin.

 

[Miniwehats]

My ask here is more around the performance of my NAS and if there is any negative effects I should be aware of running it this way.

 

[Jailer]

My ask here is more around the performance of my NAS and if there is any negative effects I should be aware of running it this way.

Negative effects? Not necessarily other than it will be using a lot more resources than it needs to be. Just install it in a jail and be done with it.

 

[Miniwehats]

Negative effects? Not necessarily other than it will be using a lot more resources than it needs to be. Just install it in a jail and be done with it.

Well this VM is running 24/7 that I use for other stuff, so it is already using resources. If it is just a resource issue I will play around with both and see the difference.