Running Seafile as VirtualBox

[Jonas]

Hi,

I had problems setting up Seafile as a server in Windows system and the software is already old, so I decided to run a Ubuntu system as a virtualbox in a Windows 8 host.

I managed to set everything up and it is working more or less fine with Web interface, however, windows sync client fails while uploading.

On a server-side in logs such errors appear:

[12/22/2014 01:00:35 PM] ../common/block-backend-fs.c(176): [block bend] failed to commit block 93be018e171e6252bf7531d3c6eb0ded2ee38d03: Text file busy

[12/22/2014 01:00:35 PM] http-server.c(1021): Failed to commit block c709aa44:93be018e171e6252bf7531d3c6eb0ded2ee38d03.

My storage folder is a virtualbox share folder in a Windows NTFS HDD.

Any ideas if that could be solved with future updates? It seems that the server locks the file somehow and other changes can't be done.

Thanks,

Jonas

[Christian]

I also tested this  configuration (Virtualbox with Shared folder and Ubuntu as guest), an had also problems with syncing. I have not done further investigations, because one time my shared folder was completely lost. I switched to VMWare Workstation and until now all works fine and more stable than with the windows version of the server (ca. 2months).

Maybe you should give VMWare a try (you can test 30days).

I actually have the follwing system:

Host: Win8.1 Pro

VMWare Workstation 10

Guest: Ubuntu 64bit, 14.04, latest updates

SeafileServer 64bit, 4.0.1 with Mysql, data on a WIndows NTFS Share using "Shared folder support".

Regards,

Christian

[Jonas]

Christian, thanks for your input.

I may have to try to switch to VMware. Currently I took Bitnami ownCloud virtualbox and am running it successfully - also runs better than Apache set up directly on Windows. 

Should I switch to Seafile for better stability/reliability?

Thanks,

Jonas

[Christian]

Well, I cannot say if ownCloud is better than Seafile, because I only use Seafile. What I can say is, that Seafile is very fast in syncing. But if you decide to use Seafile I recommend to use the Linux/Ubuntu version and MySQL-database. I am syncing ca. 300GB in 40 libraries with 10 users using Seafile and it works excellent after my switch to Ubuntu-Server and MySQL. The Windows-Server version was not so stable as the Ubuntu-Version. 

Regards,

Christian

[Jonas Anuzis]

I see.. ANd you are running it as VirtualMachine with VMWare without any problems? Your disk attached to virtual machine is NTFS?

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[Christian]

Yes, no problems. 

Host System is Windows 8.1 Pro, VMWare Workstation 10, Guest System is Ubuntu 14.04, 64bit, and the Seafile Data Folder is on an NTFS-Windows disk (10TB space, RAID6 System), which is accessible from Linux via the "Shared Folder" option offered by VMWare. Then I made a symbolic link from the shared folder in /mnt/hgfs/... to the "seafile-data-directory" so that I have the same layout as you can find in the manual. The program files of the Seafile-Server are on my virtual disk where Ubuntu is running, because they need not much space. I switched from Seafile-Windows-Server-Version to the Seafile-Ubuntu-Server-Version 2 months ago, and until today no problems.

Regards,

Christian

[Jonas Anuzis]

One more question - did you manage to make it work with HTTPS sync using single SSL port instead of several (including 10001, 12001)?

[Christian]

I do not need HTTPS syncing, because the server is running inside my LAN. From outside, I use VPN to connect to my local LAN, so I do not need to reach the server directly from outside. So  I never tested this.

Regards,

Christian