VIM4 OpenMediaVault/OMV Installation

VIM4
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Which system do you use? Android, Ubuntu, OOWOW or others?

Debian 10 (Buster)

Which version of system do you use? Khadas official images, self built images, or others?

vim4-debian-10-server-linux-5.4-fenix-1.1.1-220924-develop-test-only.img.xz

Please describe your issue below:

Just thought that I would describe how I was able to get OpenMediaVault (OMV) working and installed on the VIM4 and some of the pitfalls I ran into.

NOTE

I was only able to get it functioning on the:
vim4-debian-10-server-linux-5.4-fenix-1.1.1-220924-develop-test-only.img.xz (official image) running OMV version 5.6.26.-1.

If anyone is able to figure out how to get OMV 6.x running on the VIM4 (would need a functioning Debian 11 Bullseye image) feel free to post a response.

  1. Installed via plugin script:
sudo wget -O - https://github.com/OpenMediaVault-Plugin-Developers/installScript/raw/master/install | sudo bash

GitHub Repo

  1. After the install script finished running I also had to modify the OMV ethernet.j2 file because for some reason the network interface MAC address was unretrievable by its config scripts. If the j2 file is not modified/fixed I found that the network interface’s DHCP will not function upon reboot. I had to remove lines:
      match:
        macaddress: {{ mac_address }}

File Location:
/srv/salt/omv/deploy/systemd-networkd/files/ethernet.j2

Then Re-Run:
sudo omv-salt deploy run systemd-networkd

OMV GitHub Issue

  1. Optional Part 1 In order to get WiFi AP working you also need to configure hostapd.

  • sudo cat /usr/share/doc/hostapd/examples/hostapd.conf | sudo tee /etc/hostapd.conf

  • Edit /etc/hostapd.conf to suit your WiFi requirements.

  • Uncomment and edit the DAEMON_CONF variable in /etc/default/hostapd and set it to DAEMON_CONF="/etc/hostapd.conf" and you should be ready to start hostapd or reboot.

  1. Optional Part 2 I also noticed a [A start job is running for wait for network to be configured] message from a OMV network interface was delaying booting up. So I modified the following file:

  • /etc/netplan/20-openmediavault-ip_wtio.yaml and added optional: true to the device that may not always be available.

  • Then do a sudo netplan apply and reboot.

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Hello @camixx

Thanks for your How-to guide. :wink: