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horim80
Guide
Nov 22, 2013

Virtualbox on OS6 NAS

Hi all, I know that it's possible to install VirtualBox on legacy x86 NAS. What about OS6? Does anyone knows how to install VirtualBox on OS6? Thanks.
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ChiffaNe
Tutor
Mar 23, 2016

Followed the updated procedure and it seems everything actually worked!

 

sudo /sbin/rcvboxdrv setup - failed as sudo was not found but I'm not sure it actually is needed, dpkg seems to have installed everything.

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ChiffaNe
Tutor
Mar 23, 2016

Ok, spend the whole afternoon trying to make it work and failing. 

 

It seems to start and work in the background, but when I try to connect via phpvirtualbox it fails, says access denied. I created the user vbox and made him a home directory, added to groub vboxusers and edited the /etc/default/virtualbox to run under him. 

 

Also, interestingly, I can't find the /etc/init.d/vboxweb-service all of the internet is referring to. 

  • ChiffaNe's avatar
    ChiffaNe
    Tutor
    Mar 24, 2016

    Finally got it working - had to disable vbox authentication:

    su vbox VBoxManage setproperty websrvauthlibrary null

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      ChiffaNe
      Tutor
      Mar 30, 2016

      Rolled out TinyXP and Tiny7 - both work fine, though surprisingly Tiny7 seems to be faster.

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