runing TwonkyServer on a virtual machine

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Racerx
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runing TwonkyServer on a virtual machine

Post by Racerx » Mon Nov 15, 2010 5:03 pm

Hello Twonky Forum,

i want to run the TwonkyServer on a virtual machine on Virtualbox. There i have the problem, that my mediafiles are located on the hosts harddisk and within the guest i can only mount the harddisk as a network share.

But here is the problem: I can't select the networkdrive i mounted (Z:\ (\\vboxsrv\media)) in the TwonkyServer configuration dialog.

Is there a limitation? why can't i select the drive( it only show's A. and C:)?

thanks for the help in advance
Racerx

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Re: runing TwonkyServer on a virtual machine

Post by Racerx » Fri Nov 19, 2010 7:48 am

anyone an idea? tips to get around the problem?

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Re: runing TwonkyServer on a virtual machine

Post by PeeBee » Fri Nov 19, 2010 9:31 pm

Have you tried just typing in the network location instead of trying to select it from the Browse dialog? I have just done this on my TMS 6.1 Beta installation on my Windows PC and it worked, although a Z: mapped to the same location didn't.

Try typing in \\vboxsrv\media on yours.

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Re: runing TwonkyServer on a virtual machine

Post by Racerx » Sun Nov 21, 2010 1:24 am

No i haven't. Well, i could have gotten that idea myself.

BIG Thank You. that did it. It's working now.

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Re: runing TwonkyServer on a virtual machine

Post by Checco007 » Wed Nov 24, 2010 9:03 pm

Hi guys,
how is performing TMS on a VM? I have a server with win 2003 64 and i cannot run tms 6. I was wondering if there are any performance degradation runnin on a vm.

Thank you

Fra

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