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chirpa
Mar 07, 2009Luminary
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...
Bigbearf
Oct 13, 2009Aspirant
I have read the thread and the best I can tell is the following:
1. Obtain root access I think by root@192.168.1.x and entering admin pw.
2. I guess the next step would be to copy and paste the following however I would wonder whether I will screw up the box.
Copy and paste this into terminal after obtaining root access:
I have used telnet to hack a directv tivo but I just do not want to clutter up the box and brick it. Thanks for any help. I would like to enable VB on the RNPP in order to eliminate having to have a computer on 24/7 in order to hopefully play music, pix and video to Directv HR2x boxes using mediashare. Am I barking up the wrong tree?
BigBearf
1. Obtain root access I think by root@192.168.1.x and entering admin pw.
2. I guess the next step would be to copy and paste the following however I would wonder whether I will screw up the box.
Copy and paste this into terminal after obtaining root access:
# echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian etch non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
# wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualb ... n_vbox.asc -O- | apt-key add -
# apt-get update && apt-get install build-essential
# wget -q http://www.readynas.com/download/GPL/RN ... WW_src.zip
# unzip -q RNDP6xxx_4.2.5_WW_src.zip -d ./GPL
# cd GPL/linux-x86-2.6/
# cp arch/x86/configs/tolapai_defconfig arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig
# make menuconfig (I do this otherwise I've this error : (missing kernel .config file))
# make clean;make all
# ln -s /c/backup/GPL/linux-x86-2.6/ /usr/src/linux
# KERN_DIR=/usr/src/linux
# wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualb ... ux_x86.run
# chmod +x VirtualBox-3.0.4-50677-Linux_x86.run
# ./VirtualBox-3.0.4-50677-Linux_x86.run
I have used telnet to hack a directv tivo but I just do not want to clutter up the box and brick it. Thanks for any help. I would like to enable VB on the RNPP in order to eliminate having to have a computer on 24/7 in order to hopefully play music, pix and video to Directv HR2x boxes using mediashare. Am I barking up the wrong tree?
BigBearf
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