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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...
chirpa wrote: At first, I was using the built in VRDP of VirtualBox. But I switched to using the virtual machine (Windows 2003) RDP server, this way I could send audio and stuff over the connection, and take full use of ClearType fonts, etc.
How do you do this? Running using your initial commands, I'm in NAT mode, so my workstation doesn't have direct access to my VM. I'm guessing I would need to change it to bridge mode (the way I usually run VMware), but I'm not sure how to accomplish this.
I see this in the built-in help for VBoxManage:
[-nic<1-N> none|null|nat|hostif|intnet]
Other searches indicate that an option called bridged used to exist, but it appears to have been replaced with hostif. Is this something safe to run as on a ReadyNAS?
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