Help and questions on Virtualbox install for 6.6.0

Thanks. still working on the VirtualBox installation.

however on a new install, where do i get the right .config file? on many of the examples that is not addressed, or at least I have not figured out where to find it.

i really have little experience and trying to learn how to compile code--choosing this non standard box to learn.....

i would pay good money for a simple file to load into the readynas GUI and give me a web icon like the standard apps.....vmware or virtualbox

Using the instructions I linked above, these are a couple of steps that were missing :

For the .config

cp /data/VirtualBox/tmp/linux-4.1.30-x86_64/arch/x86/configs/defconfig.x86 /usr/src/linux-4.1.30-x86_64/.config

Missing packages leading to compile errors

apt-get install libncurses5-dev  libncursesw5-dev

Once you get it installed (can't help you there doing it on a ReadyNAS), you use VRDP to access it.  See here: Chapter 7. Remote virtual machines.

this is great infomration! thank you. this makes it easier once i have it running. 

this is what i have done so far:

 unzip ReadyNASOS_V6.6.0_WW_src.zip
    cp -rp linux-4.1.30-x86_64 /data/.apps
    ln -s /data/.apps/linux-4.1.30-x86_64 /usr/src/linux-4.1.30-x86_64

 
    apt-get update

     apt-get install build-essential
     apt-get install vim git lm-sensors telnet
 apt-get install libncurses5-dev  libncursesw5-dev
 apt-get install libqt4-opengl libvpx1

    export KERN_DIR=/usr/src/linux-4.1.30-x86_64
    cd /usr/src/linux-4.1.30-x86_64
   
cp /data/VirtualBox/tmp/linux-4.1.30-x86_64/arch/x86/configs/defconfig.x86 /usr/src/linux-4.1.30-x86_64/.config
   
    make menuconfig
    make ARCH=x86_64 oldconfig && make ARCH=x86_64

however it errors out at:

/bin/sh: 1: bc: not found

kernel/time/Makefile:30: recipe for target 'kernel/time/timeconst.h' failed

make[2]: *** [kernel/time/timeconst.h] Eror 127

scripts/Makefile.build:403: recipe for target 'kernel/time' failed

make[1]: *** [kernel/time] Error 2

Makefile:948: recipe for rarget 'kernel' failed

make: *** [kernel] Error 2

any thoughts on what i am missing?

Have you tried :

apt-get install bc

I think it was also missing from the other instructions.

so after this command:

 dpkg -i virtualbox-4.3_4.3.20-96996~Debian~wheezy_amd64.deb

I got the following errors:

It seems that some may be through apt-get, but what about hte old verison of python? is that the one on the readynas? i thought that verion 2.x was no longer offered for us?

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of virtualbox-5.1:
virtualbox-5.1 depends on libpython2.7 (>= 2.7); however:
Package libpython2.7 is not installed.
virtualbox-5.1 depends on libqt5core5a (>= 5.3.0); however:
Package libqt5core5a is not installed.
virtualbox-5.1 depends on libqt5gui5 (>= 5.3.0); however:
Package libqt5gui5 is not installed.
virtualbox-5.1 depends on libqt5opengl5 (>= 5.0.2); however:
Package libqt5opengl5 is not installed.
virtualbox-5.1 depends on libqt5printsupport5 (>= 5.0.2); however:
Package libqt5printsupport5 is not installed.
virtualbox-5.1 depends on libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.2.0); however:
Package libqt5widgets5 is not installed.
virtualbox-5.1 depends on libqt5x11extras5 (>= 5.1.0); however:
Package libqt5x11extras5 is not installed.
virtualbox-5.1 depends on libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.11); however:
Package libsdl1.2debian is not installed.
virtualbox-5.1 depends on libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2); however:
Package libxcursor1 is not installed.
virtualbox-5.1 d
dpkg: error processing package virtualbox-5.1 (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for systemd (230-7~bpo8+2.netgear2) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.58) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:

Have you tried an :

apt-get install -f

this should fix the dependencies and install the package

i spoke to soon!   it was fine for about a day and one of my interfaces stopped working.  So I used the other interface, shut down the VM gracefully.  Then i rebooted the NAS gracefully.

then it came back and said:

ot@ReadyNAS:~/VirtualBox VMs/Windows10_64/Logs# vboxheadless
WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module
available for the current kernel (4.1.30.x86_64.1) or it failed to
load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by

sudo /sbin/vboxconfig

You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
VBoxHeadless: Error -1908 in suplibOsInit!
VBoxHeadless: Kernel driver not installed

VBoxHeadless: Tip! Make sure the kernel module is loaded. It may also help to reinstall VirtualBox.

What on earth happened? Oh yeah, the interface did come back on reboot.....

A couple of things noted there, did you switch back to the older version of Virtualbox ? And did you run

make menuconfig
and

cd /usr/src/linux-4.1.30-x86_64

make modules_install ARCH=x86_64

The modules_install I think is the bit you are missing. If you compare what you did versus the previous instructions you'll see what the difference is.

i did not change versions. however i could not get menuconfig to work, so i did skip that step--to my detriment i see.

i am not familiar with make modules_install...

thanks

so i retraced my steps and used the make module command--Virtualbox seems to be very stable and survives a reboot.

However my main problem now is that the network connection on the readynas and in the VM seems to die after a few hours and only cure is a reboot.  I am using the vm exclusively to send my readynas backups to amazon via an app called Goodsync on a Win10 VM--thus very heavy and consistent network usage.  (granted it is only a 1mb/sec uplink, so i know i have another 7 mb/sec capability, so it is not link saturation)  Strangely, the transfer continues on, but no other app in the VM, nor outside the VM can use the connection.

any thoughts on what network config change i need to make? i am using everything default, thus NAT.

should i looked at bridged networking as an option?