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Hey, i wanted to test some things, but in an seperated enviroment like Virtualbox. I found some articles, that it is possible to boot Xpenology in Virtualbox but only the 3615 version with the 1.02a loader. So is it possible to boot the Ds916+ with the 1.02b loader or the Ds918+ with the new 1.03a2 loader, and if so, how?

Hello, i have built my Xpenology NAS based on a J5005 Gemini Based Mainboard from Asrock. Everything worked fine until i checked for the Ip adresses in my Router. First it showed 3 different Ip adresses with 3 different MACs, then somehow i was able to get rid of one, but now there are still 2 different Ip adresses with 2 different MACs. I can change the MAC in grub to fit the one, that gives me the UEFI, but then the both Ip´s just swap their MACs. Can someone tell me, why this is happening and how i can fix this? i dont want to see 2 Ip adresses in my Router.

I know, that this wasnt an answer to me, i just wanted an answer and quoted just the last post u made. Ofc i understand, that u have other problems atm, but the last two posts i did are maybe helpful.

Have u read my last 2 messages?

@IG-88 To understand it fully, i asked him, if Hardware encoding works on his current system by using plex or emby and he wrote this: "I do not know for sure. It definitely works for Video Station (using the Synology video license). My understanding that the Linux device /dev/dri needs to be present and functional for hw encoding to work in either Plex or Emby. I don't believe that the Synology video license has anything to do with that. At one point in the past, I had a Xeon V5 (Skylake) with Quicksync and when I booted it on the 916+ image, /dev/dri was enabled. My current usage of the 916+ image on the ASRock Apollo Lake/Gemini Lake chipsets, I do not see /dev/dri and have not investigated why since I do not need video hw acceleration. It's possible that the version of the dri driver baked into the 916+ DSM may not support the Apollo Lake/Gemini Lake CPU's for some reason. This might be something that can be addressed with extra.lzma if you ask IG-88, but you'll need to find a dri distribution that clearly offers support for the chip. I didn't try this, but you might want to try the alpha 918+/DSM 6.2 install on your J5005 to see if /dev/dri is functioning on that platform. I don't really recommend it for production yet, but it might help you with planning."

@IG-88 I write again to the guy who also uses a Gemini Lake as a base for his Xpenology NAS and he says, that he uses the 916+ firmware but isnt quite sure, if hardware encoding works, because he dont use it in his current NAS. He said, that in earlier versions of his NAS (he used a Xeon at this moment) he was able to use hardware encoding but that needed a /dev/dri, dont know actually what this is, some folder or so. He also said this:"This might be something that can be addressed with extra.lzma if you ask IG-88, but you'll need to find a dri distribution that clearly offers support for the chip." What do you say about this?

If you would use Plex or Emby, something to stream Videos, the software can encode these Videos to make the needed Bandwidth smaller, and some Cpus are able to encode these with hardware, what speeds the encoding process up

Does Hardware-Acceleration work?

So, the j5005 will not work? I wrote to a member in this Forum who also used a Gemini Lake based j4105 and his System is working just fine.

Hello first. I want to build my own Xpenology NAS, because my old Qnap 469-Pro is gettting really slow (2011...). I found a Video (which has been deleted) on a a Youtube Channel i subscribed about this topic and now im really interested and want to try it my own. I looked for a cheap but strong Mobo-Cpu-combo and found the Asrock j5005-ITX what would be perfectly. Now my Question: Is Xpenology even possible with this Mobo-Cpu (i mean, why shouldnt it, right) and if it is possible, what Dsm version should i use? I read something about 918 and 2 other ones and asking my self what fits best for me. The Server wont be heavily used, i only need it to store some Data, host a Teamspeak Server and sometimes and Minecraft Server for my little Brother and i want to use Emby and with Emby the Hardware Acceleration (Intel QuickSync should be supported by this Mobo-Cpu) have to work. Otherwise i would use Plex, but i dont like Plex that much. Can someone give me the Download-links that i need to make this working? Thank You