HowTo: Install VBox Synology DSM 4.2.3202 onto x86 ReadyNAS

Thanks for the link, didn't know that OS6 was already being discussed. Funny, I just saw NetGear's announcement this morning and had the exact same thoughts. As a matter of fact, I've already written scripts to modify the ReadyNAS boot menu and roll a new initrd for flashing the SMI on my ReadyNAS Ultra. My original intent was to add boot menu options; create a new md0, backup md0, restore a backed copy of md0 or create a chroot - all using the menu buttons. I had success with the backup, restore and chroot, but could not figure out how to erase md0 and create a new one as if factory default was selected without disrupting the /c/ share or loosing data. I estimate I had about 80% but couldn't figure out the last 20% so this project has been on the back burner.

Changing topics. If the modified DSM loads, how do you plan to access the ReadyNAS OLED and buttons? As far as I can tell, the NV6 GPIO code is missing from GPL. According to the Warwick site:

The front panel display and the 'Backup' buttons are accessible by means of a kernel module. They will build with make -C /usr/src/linux M=`pwd` modules but won't insert into any recent distribution kernels as they use sys_open and sys_write symbols which are not (and should not be!) exported.