ROCK Intel Mini PC / nice?

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Guys

I recently bought a small, very small, Intel mini PC the size of my hand and it works really well with Roon.

I have bunch of other applications but I was told that Roon can run as a stand-alone unit and I wasn’t sure whether it can be run in this fashion?

I believe it’ ROCK … can ROCK be run on a Windows PC type interface with virtualisation or do I have to dedicate my Intel mini PC completely to ROCK and not have any other apps running on it?

Ie then have 2 dedicated mini PCs one for Roon and the other for ROCK.

Thanks

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ROCK can be run in a VM. It won’t be officially supported because it’s considered tinkering

From this post and others, you seem to have a basic misunderstanding about ROCK versus Roon. If you use ROCK, then you need another device (either an iOS, Android, PC, or Mac device) to run the Roon Remote on.

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Understood but it is plug n play or do I need to learn Linux and mount drives etc. ? I other words will the work out of the box and using SMB shared drives etc ? Thanks

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Yes I have this now. I use my android device as the client mostly and I assume it talks to roon core on the Mini PC? Hence my question.

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If you’re talking about ROCK, then read the KB articles that address that.

No Linux knowledge necessary.

Don’t know exactly what you mean by client. Because ROCK has no GUI, you need a device, as I detailed above, to control the Roon Core that is running under ROCK.

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Right so I do need a basic understanding of Linux etc to install this and configure it even if it runs as a virtual machine under windows?.

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I can download Linux and get unbuntu working but I’m not very skilled in Linux commands etc. That’s all

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To use a VM running under Linux, then you need to know Linux.

To use ROCK, running on its own, then no Linux knowledge needed.

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Ok thanks.

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If you can do that, you have more than enough skills to do a ROCK build. Hardest part is booting from a thumb drive. If you can do that, the rest is a piece of cake. I think you will really enjoy running Core on Roon OS. Just connect power and Ethernet and shove it next to your router. Job done.

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But David… (sorry) does this mean that the PC will be become ROOn or will windows work along side it ? I think the Roon server might the a better fit for me. Cheers

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If you install ROCK OS then, as you expected, ROCK can be the only software running on the machine.

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It will become an appliance. I encourage you to give it a try. Be sure to back up you Windows license should you later decide to repurpose that PC, or simply buy another NVMe SSD for this experiment.

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