Chris wrote:
Welcome aboard, and thanks for backing Legend. For the VM keep it boring: Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS or Debian 12+. The installer only recognises Ubuntu/Debian cleanly and warns on anything else, so a plain LTS image saves you a lot of noise. 4GB RAM and 20GB+ disk is plenty to explore with. QNAP: there is a walkthrough in our install guide — enable SSH under Control Panel Network & File Services Telnet/SSH, install Container Station from the App Center, then run the installer over SSH. Straight with you though: the only NAS Tom officially supports is UGREEN, and the installer will print a limited-support warning on QNAP. It generally works, just expect the odd rough edge. Two QTS port clashes worth planning for: QTS holds 8080 (qBittorrent's WebUI) and 80/443 (Nginx Proxy Manager), so move QTS's ports in Control Panel. Your Plex and media files can stay exactly where they are — you just point Media Root at your /share/CACHEDEV1DATA/... path during setup. If you want hardware transcoding later, check 'ls -la /dev/dri/' on the TS-464 first.
Chris wrote:
Correcting myself before you build this — my port advice didn't match what SparkBox actually does, and I'd rather you not change anything on your QNAP unnecessarily. qBittorrent doesn't use 8080. SparkBox publishes it on 8089 specifically to stay clear of NAS web UIs, so that clash isn't real. And for 80/443, the installer checks whether the OS already holds them and moves itself to 8080/8444 on its own — no Control Panel changes needed there either. One genuine catch: that automatic fallback lands on 8080, which QTS may already be using for its own web UI. If Nginx Proxy Manager won't start, that's the first thing to suspect. There's no supported install flag to preset it, so I've flagged it to Tom rather than hand you a guess.