How to pass an Unraid share to a home assistant VM?

[Convictions]

To preface, my experience with unraid and VMs is just the last couple weeks that I've been working to set up a home server for a security camera system. I'm running a VM with Home Assistant OS inside of Unraid. Within the VM, I'm using frigate to record and capture video.

 

Right now, I can't seem to pass my unraid shares to Home Assistant. If I include a share in the VM settings at the "Unraid Source Path" option, the Home Assistant VM fails to initialize. With the VNC console open, it looks like it's started initialization, but it never actually displays an IP address, and home assistant never becomes accessible. I feel like this should be pretty simple, but I haven't been able to find anything explaining how to do it.

 

Once I get that sorted, the next thing for me to figure out is how to make frigate save clips to the unraid share instead of to its default path. If somehow someone is able to answer that question as well, that would be amazing.

 

Thanks!

[Kilrah]

Easiest is just to access the network share via smb or nfs.

 

If you use to use the "mount point" thing you need to mount it on the VM side manually, and add the "memoryBacking" section to the xml:

https://libvirt.org/kbase/virtiofs.html

 

Make sure to install qemu-guest-agent in the VM as well. 

[LIGISTX]

12 hours ago, Convictions said:

To preface, my experience with unraid and VMs is just the last couple weeks that I've been working to set up a home server for a security camera system. I'm running a VM with Home Assistant OS inside of Unraid. Within the VM, I'm using frigate to record and capture video.

 

Right now, I can't seem to pass my unraid shares to Home Assistant. If I include a share in the VM settings at the "Unraid Source Path" option, the Home Assistant VM fails to initialize. With the VNC console open, it looks like it's started initialization, but it never actually displays an IP address, and home assistant never becomes accessible. I feel like this should be pretty simple, but I haven't been able to find anything explaining how to do it.

 

Once I get that sorted, the next thing for me to figure out is how to make frigate save clips to the unraid share instead of to its default path. If somehow someone is able to answer that question as well, that would be amazing.

 

Thanks!

As stated above, just use SMB...

[Jarsky]

If you want to use VirtIO-FS, make sure in your guest your VirtIO drivers are up to date. If its Windows, in UnRAID you can download the latest VirtIO package (which includes QEMU guest agent), and mount it to the VM to use as your source to update. If its Linux just make sure your QEMU guest agent is installed (e.g apt install qemu-guest-agent / yum install qemu-guest-agent) which will manage your VirtIO drivers. 

 

You can then find a guide here: https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/wiki/VirtIO-FS:-Shared-file-system

 

Keep in mind this feature is still very new and is treated as experimental as far as Unraid support. 

 

But as others have said you might want to just use SMB for now. 

[Convictions]

Thanks everyone. I ended up just moving frigate from Home Assistant to Unraid (w/ frigate proxy running in Home Assistant). that solves both issues at once because now frigate just saves files to an unraid share.