multipass VS Cloudbox

Install Multipass from https://multipass.run

Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances

Multipass I love Multipass for quick Ubuntu instances spun up for testing or as a playground. Wish I would have known and used of it sooner.

If you just need Ubuntu then you can try "Multipass" from Canonical (https://multipass.run/). Works quite well on my M2 Air. I haven't tried using Linux GUI with it though as I need only terminal based VMs.

Multipass is pretty clutch for trivial VMs on MacOs for sure. I use it for a bunch of ssh jump boxes running vpns to different sites. The macOS build does not support custom images (lest not without [some truly insane hacks](https://github.com/canonical/multipass/issues/1260#issuecomm...) , which doesn’t really matter for what I use it for but it is kind of a bummer. If you need something with a little more grunt but don’t want to go full blown with writing your own QEMU tooling or fussing with something like UTM or Parallels, [quickemu](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu) is a really nice qemu wrapper with sane defaults that can expose a whole lot of power if you need it.

I would be cautious or even distrustful of using anything from Oracle. VirtualBox components come under three different licenses - GPLv2, personal use & evaluation license, and an enterprise license. Their VirtualBox license FAQ [1] gives them enough leeway to change future licenses at will. If an exploit is discovered in your old VirtualBox and they've changed the license, you're out of luck.

We've moved our development to KVM and Virtual Machine Manager on Linux [3] and UTM on Mac [4]. There are other options to run your VM, such as Multipass [5] or VirtualBuddy [6].

On a digressive topic - it was fun migrating our legacy application server stack from Oracle Java (old & poorly considered decision) to OpenJDK, thanks to their license [2].

[1] https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Licensing_FAQ

[2] https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/jdk-faqs.htm...

[3] https://ubuntu.com/blog/kvm-hyphervisor

[4] https://mac.getutm.app/

[5] https://multipass.run/

[6] https://github.com/insidegui/VirtualBuddy

How does it compare to https://multipass.run/?

If you have a reasonably beefy computer, you can always try setting up Multipass and set up 2-3 nodes for a k8s cluster, it's how I'm doing my own certification training. I do have a k3s Raspberry Pi cluster, but with Pi prices being what they are still it'd almost be cheaper to do a cloud setup. ☹️

https://docs.saltbox.dev or https://cloudbox.works

I have just got my first seedbox and im trying to get it setup, first thing i would like to do is get plex working with my existing libraries stored on Google Drive. I have followed all the guides ( How to mount Google Drive for Plex usage | RapidSeedbox: Help Center & Google Drive API Client ID and Client Secret · Cloudbox/Cloudbox Wiki · GitHub )

2023-03-06 08:29:39,951 - INFO - CONFIG [140352731267072]: Using default setting --config=config/config.json 2023-03-06 08:29:39,951 - INFO - CONFIG [140352731267072]: Using default setting --logfile=autoscan.log 2023-03-06 08:29:39,951 - INFO - CONFIG [140352731267072]: Using default setting --loglevel=INFO 2023-03-06 08:29:39,951 - INFO - CONFIG [140352731267072]: Using default setting --queuefile=queue.db 2023-03-06 08:29:39,951 - INFO - CONFIG [140352731267072]: Using default setting --cachefile=cache.db 2023-03-06 08:29:39,970 - INFO - CONFIG [140352731267072]: Using default setting --config=config/config.json 2023-03-06 08:29:39,970 - INFO - CONFIG [140352731267072]: Using default setting --logfile=autoscan.log 2023-03-06 08:29:39,970 - INFO - CONFIG [140352731267072]: Using default setting --loglevel=INFO 2023-03-06 08:29:39,971 - INFO - CONFIG [140352731267072]: Using default setting --queuefile=queue.db 2023-03-06 08:29:39,971 - INFO - CONFIG [140352731267072]: Using default setting --cachefile=cache.db ___ __ / | __ __/ /_____ ______________ _____ / /| |/ / / / __/ __ \/ ___/ ___/ __ `/ __ \ / ___ / /_/ / /_/ /_/ (__ ) /__/ /_/ / / / / /_/ |_\__,_/\__/\____/____/\___/\__,_/_/ /_/ 2023-03-06 08:29:40,097 - INFO - AUTOSCAN [140352731267072]: ######################################################################### # Title: Plex Autoscan # # Author: l3uddz # # URL: https://github.com/l3uddz/plex_autoscan # # -- # # Part of the Cloudbox project: https://cloudbox.works # ######################################################################### # GNU General Public License v3.0 # ######################################################################### 2023-03-06 08:29:40,102 - INFO - PLEX [140352731267072]: Requesting section info from Plex... 2023-03-06 08:29:40,119 - ERROR - PLEX [140352731267072]: Issue encountered when attempting to list detailed sections info. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 703, in urlopen httplib_response = self._make_request( File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 449, in _make_request six.raise_from(e, None) File "", line 3, in raise_from File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 444, in _make_request httplib_response = conn.getresponse() File "/usr/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 1374, in getresponse response.begin() File "/usr/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 318, in begin version, status, reason = self._read_status() File "/usr/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 287, in _read_status raise RemoteDisconnected("Remote end closed connection without" http.client.RemoteDisconnected: Remote end closed connection without response During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 489, in send resp = conn.urlopen( File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 787, in urlopen retries = retries.increment( File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/urllib3/util/retry.py", line 550, in increment raise six.reraise(type(error), error, _stacktrace) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/urllib3/packages/six.py", line 769, in reraise raise value.with_traceback(tb) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 703, in urlopen httplib_response = self._make_request( File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 449, in _make_request six.raise_from(e, None) File "", line 3, in raise_from File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 444, in _make_request httplib_response = conn.getresponse() File "/usr/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 1374, in getresponse response.begin() File "/usr/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 318, in begin version, status, reason = self._read_status() File "/usr/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 287, in _read_status raise RemoteDisconnected("Remote end closed connection without" urllib3.exceptions.ProtocolError: ('Connection aborted.', RemoteDisconnected('Remote end closed connection without response')) During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/autoscan/plex.py", line 25, in show_detailed_sections_info resp = requests.get('%s/library/sections/all?X-Plex-Token=%s' % ( File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/requests/api.py", line 73, in get return request("get", url, params=params, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/requests/api.py", line 59, in request return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 587, in request resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 701, in send r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 547, in send raise ConnectionError(err, request=request) requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: ('Connection aborted.', RemoteDisconnected('Remote end closed connection without response'))

Plex + https://cloudbox.works/ on a server in a friendly country. Fully automatic once you set it up.

Swizzin, Cloudbox or /r/plexshares are the easiest ways.

If you're willing to put in the work, I recommend taking a look at Cloudbox.

Biggest established tooling projects are Cloudbox (Docker), and Swizzin' (not Docker).

See also Cloudbox, and Swizzin'. The latter is a more complete, alibeit not Dockery, soln.

You'd probably prefer to look at something like Cloudbox then, which is a kind of Dockerized version of the same thing. Also pretty popular.