Virtual Machine Manager Unable to use PetaSpace volume

[matthewharmon102]

Hi,

 

I have a Gen8 running DSM 6.1.4-51217 Update 5. I have been trying to get Virtual Machine manager up and running. The package installs fine, but when I run it, it only allows me to select Volume 3 as the storage for the VMs. I am using PetaSpace to manage volume 1, which is made up of a combination of drives. Am i unable to use this volume for VMM?

[Dfds]

VMM requires btrfs files systems, what's your volume 1 formatted as?

[matthewharmon102]

That will explain it. It is SHR. I'm guessing there is no easy way of "converting" without losing my data

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[Dfds]

2 hours ago, matthewharmon102 said:

That will explain it. It is SHR. I'm guessing there is no easy way of "converting" without losing my data

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No there isn't, you will need to backup any data & recreate the volume as btrfs.

[polanskiman]

15 hours ago, matthewharmon102 said:

That will explain it. It is SHR. I'm guessing there is no easy way of "converting" without losing my data

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Just for the sake of accuracy I need to correct this.

 

BTRFS and SHR are very two very different and totally unrelated things.

BTRFS is a file system.

SHR is a form of raid created by Synology namely Synology Hybrid Raid (SHR).

 

I supposed you wanted to say ext4 which is the common file systems used by Synology.