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saurus;334651 Wrote: > This statement does really show that you do not know anything about the > inside of an NAS. Just have a look how you connect to NAS devices: Via > CIFS, NFS, FTP, iSCSI or whatever protocol your NAS supports. As the > disk itself does not provide these protocols, your NAS has to do ist. > And guess what, it does this by running services like Samba, NFS > Server, FTP Server, iSCSI target via services (in your words > application) that are running on a mini Linux. > I think the ideas is that a NAS is focused and optimized for storage services. It can certainly do other things, but its focus will always be to be good at storage. The result is that things like running an MySQL database on a NAS will never be a situation which the NAS has been designed for. IMHO a Mini-ITX setup will result in a low power device that is a lot more suitable to run SqueezeCenter than most NAS boxes. It will probably even be a lot cheaper than buying a more expensive NAS which has enough processor power and memory to run SqueezeCenter at acceptable speed. saurus;334651 Wrote: > > But what would be great is a virtual machine appliance. So those who > run a server at home could easily be able to just deploy an additional > VM. Or maybe die distribution is done by an appliance CD, so that you > can install the VM by your own. Latter one would eleminate the need to > support several different virtualization technologies at logitech. > Instant SqueezeCenter should be pretty simple to install and run in a virtual machine. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45161 SlimCD will probably also work: http://www.herger.net/slim/detail.php?nr=763 -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) 'My download page' (http://erland.isaksson.info/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43198 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
