Installation on virtual Machine / LXC

[ionfan]

Hello,
i'm using LMS for years and i am very happy with it (except sometimes the spotty plugin does not work good).
I have installed LMS on an LXC Container on my proxmox server. The base linux is debian and at the moment there is LMS 7.9.3 installed.
Since i have problems with spotty and saw that there is a whole new version (8.1.1) out i would like to migrate to this new version.

My questions are:
- Can i update from 7.9.3 to 8.1.1? What are the required steps?
- Is it better to set up a new Container and start new?
- Is it better to choose LMS on debian or install picoreplayer and use that for LMS?

I could not find any guide on the internet for installation recommendations on VMs/Containers. Everyone seems to use a PI for LMS. But since i have a hypervisor at home i want to use that instead of buying a pi.

I hope you can answer my questions.

Regards
IonFan

[d6jg]

Hello,
i'm using LMS for years and i am very happy with it (except sometimes the spotty plugin does not work good).
I have installed LMS on an LXC Container on my proxmox server. The base linux is debian and at the moment there is LMS 7.9.3 installed.
Since i have problems with spotty and saw that there is a whole new version (8.1.1) out i would like to migrate to this new version.

My questions are:
- Can i update from 7.9.3 to 8.1.1? What are the required steps?
- Is it better to set up a new Container and start new?
- Is it better to choose LMS on debian or install picoreplayer and use that for LMS?

I could not find any guide on the internet for installation recommendations on VMs/Containers. Everyone seems to use a PI for LMS. But since i have a hypervisor at home i want to use that instead of buying a pi.

I hope you can answer my questions.

Regards
IonFan

Install over the top.
Quite a few run LMS on VMs and Containers but it’s not mainstream.

[ionfan]

Install over the top.
Quite a few run LMS on VMs and Containers but it’s not mainstream.

Do you mean just download http://downloads-origin.slimdevices.....1.1_amd64.deb

and do a dpkg -i of that package?

Is there an advantage in using the picoreplayer release?

[d6jg]

Do you mean just download http://downloads-origin.slimdevices.....1.1_amd64.deb

and do a dpkg -i of that package?

Is there an advantage in using the picoreplayer release?

I’m not a Debian person. I use Centos but I suspect it is what you say.

piCorePlayer is Pi only. It’s big advantages are
As a player only it runs entirely in Ram and is very well supported
As player/server it’s very well supported / developed

[ionfan]

I’m not a Debian person. I use Centos but I suspect it is what you say.

piCorePlayer is Pi only. It’s big advantages are
As a player only it runs entirely in Ram and is very well supported
As player/server it’s very well supported / developed

Ok thank you for your response.
I just did what i mentioned before and everything worked fine. LMS 8.1.1 now working

I think this thread can be closed.
Regards
IonFan