Hi Nicholas, Thanks for responding! The host machine is a Mac Pro 1,1 running Mavericks (Connected to 1Gb Ethernet router). I got rid of the VirtualBox and grabbed LIO-VM and VMWare Fusion, but I was unable to connect to the iSCSI with LIO-VM. So, I put ubuntu on VMWare and installed targetcli and set it up. With this setup, I am able to use globalSAN initiator from my Macbook Air and actually play the movie almost perfectly fine (stutters a little bit, but this is over WiFi). Now, if I use my Windows 7 machine (i7, 16GB RAM + Connected to 1Gb ethernet) and use either Microsoft iSCSI Initiator or StarWind iSCSI Initiator it start really having issues. It will load the blu ray drive locally, but anytime I try to play the movie or open the disc itself it seems to take forever and Windows will stop responding. If I try doing it through WiFi the same things happen, so I'm not sure it's an issue with getting the data fast enough. So in essence, on Windows, the movie never starts. Macbook Air to Mac Pro running VMWare Fusion running Ubuntu 13.10 Server over WiFi will actually play the movie. I'm going to try to find a DVD and see if that works out any better. Thanks for any suggestions you might be able to provide! On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Ramin, > > On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 23:47 -0800, Ramin Mahmoodi wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> I'm new to linux, so hopefully this is the right place to post. I got >> Ubunut 13.10 Server and installed targetcli on a VirtualBox machine. I >> have the network Bridged to the Ethernet port connected on my local >> router. What I have setup is this >> >> /blockstore/pscsi /dev/sr1 -> My blu ray drive >> lun0 -> /dev/sr1 >> demo mode is on >> >> I can connect to it from my Windows 7 machine (built in iSCSI >> Initiator) and it will mount the drive as F: and will even load the >> ASUS blu ray drive software and I can see and view the Blu ray media >> contents. >> >> The problem I'm having is that it is incredibly slow. I know that with >> ISCSI HD and the PS3 you were able to get media playback on a wired >> network, but I can't get that working at all. Is there something I >> need to be doing differently? >> > > So streaming video playback from Blu-Ray media requires ~5 MB/sec to ~7 > MB/sec of sustained bandwidth depending on A/V codec + HD player > pre-buffering settings. > > Based on your above setup, the bottleneck would most likely be related > to the Virtualbox HBA emulation + BDROM device passthrough into Ubuntu > guest not being able to sustain the required bandwidth necessary for > smooth playback. > > One quick test you can try is to 'dd if=/dev/scd0 of=/dev/null bs=2048' > within the Ubuntu guest, and then CTRL-C after ~60 seconds. This will > give an idea of Linux local streaming bandwidth into the Virtualbox > guest. Also, what host OS is Virtualbox running on..? > > --nab > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe target-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
