@cowboy Ouch, hopefully it get solved quickly with the financial impact and you next supplier works better.

@ChristianL added another ASrock-build with i5. With a BR-disc burner. Passed though the SATA adapter to a Debian VM to burn archive of data. Worked smooth in a way that the drive got identified and I can open/close the tray. Now I just need to solve my network issue and then can use k3b to burn backup on M-Disc/BR

And I really liked to move VM from the first little MS-01 just over to the new system.

@cowboy I saw the OPNsense article after I installed and I think will retry once more UEFI. I think I have BIOS. The checksum is switched off as per article.

I have my VLAN issue posted over here: https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/9098/vlan-performance but not much response unfortunately.

I don't have passthrough tried; utilize the standard xcp-ng network settings. And the performance within same VLAN over to my NAS is nice. Issue mainly happen if I try routing between VLAN. Both when I switch VLAN via VIF or try OPNsense.

I might give FD.io a try; something I saw when looking for tsnr@netgate.

Oh, and home assistant I will also try on xcp-ng. And comparing to my current small mini PC/NUC style of hardware. For that sure I would need USB-passthrough I assume. But that not worry me (yet).

@cowboy Hi, nice to meet you. I really like the formfactor of the MS-01. Sweet little box. Installation was smooth. No issues at all. USB in, boot, done. Then of course I had my own learning curve in getting VMs up and running and XOA Community installed. But thanks to trial version of XOA and the YT stuff from Tom Lawrence it got much easier.
My only painpoint still open with the performance of my VLAN routing desire. Not sure if OPNsense or xcp-ng or the combination is the issue. Would be nice to have a second (or third) MS-01 to test further. And I fear that will actually soon happen

@john-c true, download is fun, the limiting factor is mostly the other side of a download streams. But it’s also “best effort” from ISP. Effectively I doubt I get full speed ever these days. It’s still consumer grade connection and competing neighbors I assume. And double-NATing due to DS-Lite for IPv4 with the Classical Japanese way of non-standard implementation. But no complain, not suffer from any limitation in real life.

@john-c yeah, ahhm, living in Japan doesn't include speaking Japanese I'm notoriously bad with human-languages. My brain is too old for that.

Hi community,

small home lab user here; used ESXi in the past but as most of us I had to find a new home. And happy to have found one with xcp-ng.

My home network is based on Ubiquiti equipment. One UDM SE, one 24 Port L3 switch (the X-mas version with Etherlightning) and a 8 port 10Gb aggregation switch. Three AP serving the wifi part. And an AMD-based storage server running unRAID; also with a dual SFP+ NIC.

On the WAN side of the UDM SE I have a 10Gb fiber line (don't need; but wanted and rather cheap here in Japan). Overkill but fun.

xcp-ng I started two month ago on a small Minisforum MS-01. That box has a i12900H CPU with right now 32GB RAM; the main reason why I got that is it has 2 SFP+ Intel ports, 2x2.5Gbits RJ45 and 2 Thunderbolts 4. Connectivity in every way.

I like Linux in all flavors; since the death of CentOS I'm back to Debian. Graphical user interfaces are served well with my Macs. No Windows (except the one laptop I have to use for my day job).

I run right now an OPNsense 24.1.7-4 on it for testing VLAN setup. VLAN are rather new to my but with the easy setup in the UI stuff I have quite a number of those to separate my son's network from mine, segregate IoT stuff etc.
Overkill ? Oh yes. But fun too.

I really like what I see with xcp-ng. Don't miss ESXi anymore.