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This Wiki contains all information (instructions, command snippets, and files) necessary to set up a Linux HTPC.

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Ports:
HTTP: 80
HTTPS: 443
FTP: 6621
SSH: 6622
???: 14183
MPD Control: 65534
MPD Stream: 65535

Virtual Machines

Hyper-V is a level-1 hypervisor, which means that it is not an application running on the host OS, abstracting the HW, but it is lower-level - it abstracts (at least) the CPU for the host OS as well
Hyper-V makes it difficult to passthrough USB from the host OS to the guest OS - you need USB-to-IP crapware to make Yubikeys et al. work in the guest OS; VirtualBox and other level-2 hypervisor support USB passthrough natively
VirtualBox needs Guest Additions (which need to installed within the guest OS) in addition to the VirtualBox extensions - only after you have the Guest Additions installed will your guest OS resolution selection match your host OS
To passthrough USB in VirtualBox you need to setup a USB filter in the VM settings that can either passthrough specific devices (based on DeviceID) or USB ports (based on port number) [0] - be careful when passing through ports, if you passthrough the port where the mouse is connected, you will lose mouse input in the host OS
VirtualBox 5.2.20 seems to have audio issues where you can't play audio from within the guest OS without distortion if your host OS is Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
Spotify does not recognize a Spotify instance running on the host OS as another device when running Spotify in the guest OS - possibly because it thinks it's the same machine (based on IP?)?