Hi,
I create this topic to talk about Squeezebox Server on virtal machines.
I wanted to use shairtune2 to convert my Squeezebox into airplay receivers. It was not possible on my Windows LMS server so I decided to use a VM to run my squeezebox server.
It runs perfectly on my intel NUC 5i5 (Windows 10 for host system) with Ubuntu x64 15.10 minimalCD under VMplayer. Less than 0.2% of CPU used when idle !
Vm images are very useful to test Squeezebox possibilities quickly, useful for these who don't know what is Squeezebox environment, useful for developers,etc...
May be we can share here some advices and some useful VM images. Let's go !
If some people are interested I will explain all the process to create an up to date VM and I can share my image too.
Hope you will like and participate to this topic with your own experience and VM images ;)
I create this topic to talk about Squeezebox Server on virtal machines.
I wanted to use shairtune2 to convert my Squeezebox into airplay receivers. It was not possible on my Windows LMS server so I decided to use a VM to run my squeezebox server.
It runs perfectly on my intel NUC 5i5 (Windows 10 for host system) with Ubuntu x64 15.10 minimalCD under VMplayer. Less than 0.2% of CPU used when idle !
Vm images are very useful to test Squeezebox possibilities quickly, useful for these who don't know what is Squeezebox environment, useful for developers,etc...
May be we can share here some advices and some useful VM images. Let's go !
- Firstly I found images for virtualbox from erland. He talk aout it the readon why he creat that here.
You'll find images here : http://erland.isaksson.info/arkiv/vboxsbsimages/
These images download the new version of LMS at each reboot. But it is easy to modify.
You can easily as to stop update at each reboot or ask to download LMS 7.9 instead of 7.7 (type sudo vim /var/lib/sbssvn/sbssvn.conf to modify the source fo download)
- Before named Max2play, SqueezePlug offer a virtual machine for virtualbox to test their release.It is not available since 2014 but you can find this old image here or here . This image is good to show how to automate LMS installation and other media server like MediaTomn, MiniDLNA, Twonky and TVmobili. This image is to old to integrate airplay receiver like Max2Play but I'm sure it is pretty easy with shairport.
- If you want to make quick test on VMware + Ubuntu,Debian or CentOs you can find images here. Only in French with Azerty keyboard and no LMS server inside, you have to install everything by yourself ;)
If some people are interested I will explain all the process to create an up to date VM and I can share my image too.
Hope you will like and participate to this topic with your own experience and VM images ;)