running MakeMKV on a virtual machine

[2WheeledDaydreams]

Hi All,

Please redirect me if this is covered somewhere else but I couldnt find it.

Has anyone had any success with running a virtual machine on their server and connecting a drive to this VM and running MakeMKV from there?

I am currently battling with initial speed of ripping versus transfer to server speed. My server drive is docked on my windows PC so I have been ripping my files straight to my plex server, however ripping to my PC is ever so slightly quicker per disc but I would then have to transfer from PC to server.

I was just contemplating a VM on my server so that the 'PC' drive that MakeMKV is ripping to is the server drives and wondering if this would see that slight gain (for the cost of a windows key)

[d00zah]

I did some testing of 'sdftool64.exe' (a component of MakeMKV) on an Oracle VirtualBox (Win10) VM. Direct HW (passthru) access ought to be possible if you use another environment?

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