Plex in Jail or Virtualbox. which is best

[bashers]

I'm consolidating my storage server with my plex machine into one much more powerful machine.

As i want to run ZFS, three VMs and FTP i want to keep using NAS4free as I'm very comfortable with it.

Would it be best to run plex in a linux virtualbox instance or inside a jail?
Which would allow the plex instance to make the most of the available horsepower?

Although i'm a little proficient with linux, i like the live system and ease of management that comes with NAS4free.
I dont want to run with this option unless it offers vastly better processing power.

[bashers]

any thoughts at all?

[raulfg3]

try both and decide:

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[bashers]

Tried both on fresh Nas4free installations to avoid conflicts.......18hours of my life i wont get back.......Not impressed so far!

TheBrig:
After three fresh install i got it installed but ended with a very old version of Plex media server.
No longer really supported as PKG depracated so no go

Finch
Better results, but noGUI
PMS is running, according to the processes and logs, but although it serves me the plex web page the server cant be found.
More digging to do obviously

Overall I can see the benefit of running PMS, natively as it were, in a jail over the overhead involved when it resides in a VM.
But if i cant get this to work on my new dual xeon server, i dont think i want to run plex inside a virtualbox VM.
So it maybe I'll just ditch it all and install Windows 7 on this server, mirror the drives and be up and running in 60 minutes or at least by christmas.

[sea1150]

If you have a full N4F version - I would PMS recommend installing the package in itself N4F. I have exactly what works (although I did compile packages from source code as you need me ) . PMS I have in "packages" on the link in my signature. If the embedded version , then there is at the discretion I would put VBox, fewer problems (if resources allow ).

[bashers]

I gave up on finch as i could not access the plex interface.
You have to be in the same subnet as a fresh PMS setup to run through the initial installed before it'll open up access from all areas, but as the chroots are subnetted ro 25.255.255.255, every network is external to it!
You have to tunnel through a putty session into the jail and connect to port 32400 that way, but i could not get a tunnel up from xp, win7 or ubuntu.
Gave up on that route and was about to start installing windows 7 on the server but gave TheBrig one last chance.
Amazingly it installed plex without issues
I've since installed it on my live server so that i merely have to move the drives and USB key to the new hardware.
(fingers crossed of course)