Anyone have some experience with running Plex as a VM using bhyve and a Linux distro for the host. I currently run the Plexpass version in a custom jail which runs great. The issue is after wanting to migrate my large music collection to Plex I found that there is no support for Gracenote in Freebsd, which is required to use the Plex Premium music features. Since I have a lot of music I really was interested in the "Plex Mix" feature which is basically like Pandora so I would not need to manually add music to a playlist, the server would automate this.
What I am concerned with is I have a lot of video media and wondering about the performance hit in using a VM vs the jail and transcoding. Also concerned with reserving memory for the VM, will bhyve release memory that is not used or once I allocate a certain amount of memory then the host Freenas system cannot utilize this anymore. I like the jail setup because its very light and stable.
So if there is anyone that has made the switch I would love to hear some feedback and experiences.
What I am concerned with is I have a lot of video media and wondering about the performance hit in using a VM vs the jail and transcoding. Also concerned with reserving memory for the VM, will bhyve release memory that is not used or once I allocate a certain amount of memory then the host Freenas system cannot utilize this anymore. I like the jail setup because its very light and stable.
So if there is anyone that has made the switch I would love to hear some feedback and experiences.