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Running VirtualBox VM host on ReadyNAS Pro
What is VirtualBox? So, I got bored while laundry was going... and decided to see how well a virtual OS would run on the Pro. My first choice of VM was VirtualBox, just cause I'm familiar with it a...
This may be enough in a script to cronjob late at night one day a week. Pause/Hibernate the OS, clone the VDI, then bring it back up. The VM cannot be running when the clonehd command runs, and this way, when it comes back up, its not a fresh boot, but right where you left it off. My image is 30GB, so took around 10mins or so I think to finish, didn't time it yet.
pronto:/c/backup/VirtualBox# VBoxManage controlvm "ThinClient" savestate
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.1.4
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
pronto:/c/backup/VirtualBox# VBoxManage clonehd fd7c34af-5418-4911-a812-5a04909
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.1.4
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
Clone hard disk created in format 'VDI'. UUID: 06616685-6447-4e59-94cd-c04a3df32a74
pronto:/c/backup/VirtualBox# VBoxHeadless -startvm "ThinClient" &
pronto:/c/backup/VirtualBox# ls -lh
-rw------- 1 root root 30G 2009-03-19 12:19 ThinClientClone.vdi
-rw------- 1 root root 30G 2009-03-19 12:48 ThinClient.vdi
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