Remix OS ... a Roon Control Point without Windows or OSX

Roon Software Discussion Linux
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For those of you running Linux and wanting a desktop client for Roon there’s what looks like a pretty decent solution in the form of Remix OS. Thus far I’ve booted my laptop using a Remix OS flash drive, installed the Roon Android app on it and fired it up. I’ve got a full-blown, mouse-driven Roon Control point running…and it’s bloody fast!

I’m going to try install RemixOS in a virtual machine on my main desktop… if that works I’m grinning ear-to-ear…I hate having to reach for my Phone or a tablet when I’m sitting at my desktop, and let’s face it, editing albums in Roon via a tablet pretty much sucks.

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mouse is behaving smooth? I tried with apple wireless keyboard and magic mouse. I have the remix mini.

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Mouse is working perfectly. I’ve only tried wired at this juncture.

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Remix Mini makes a good little endpoint to.

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here the mousepointer is a bit ‘nervous’. Settings maybe?

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Hi @evand, just curious to know if you tried to load Remix OS on a VM and how it performed for you. Also did you install the Beta version via with Linux VM or using Windows 10 (then running ISO, etc etc), Thanks,

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Not tried to run it in VM as yet. When I do it on Linux and load the latest beta.

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I’m running Remix OS (64bit) in WMware Workstation 12 Player on Linux Mint 18. Installed Roon server on Mint and Roon Control on Remix and its working fine so far.

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I didn’t try it with VMware, just with KVM-QEMU. I ended up getting it to work, but the VM was eating up alot of resources, so after several attempts with different configurations I gave up on the idea. At the time I was using an E3-1245v5 processor, so I was surprised, I guess it was the emulator. I may give VMware a shot to see

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I tried Remix OS on more time using KVM. This time I tried implementing pci-passthrough of a spare NVIDIA card to the VM. That made a huge difference. I also like having Roon on a second monitor instead of just a window. I’m actually surprised that it works this well, compared to the previous experience.

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