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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 21, 2009Aspirant
Forgive me for being dense. Are you telling me to do the following?
Should I replace the virtualbox-2.1 with virtualbox-3.08? Is this all there is to it?
What about the following?
I guess I am confused about whether I should run the first set of command and then run the last set of commands. When I have tried it before I have run into a large GPL directory from unzipping the large zip file. I would appreciate further advice.
Thanks
BigBearf
$ mkdir /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc
$ cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc
$ wget http://www.readynas.com/contributed/chi ... vboxdrv.ko
$ wget http://www.readynas.com/contributed/chi ... xnetflt.ko
$ 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 virtualbox-2.1
$ /etc/init.d/vboxdrv start
Should I replace the virtualbox-2.1 with virtualbox-3.08? Is this all there is to it?
What about the following?
# wget -q http://www.readynas.com/download/GPL/RN ... WW_src.zip
# unzip -q RNDP6xxx_4.2.4_WW_src.zip -d ./GPL
# cd GPL/linux-x86-2.6/
# make && make prepare
# ln -s /c/backup/GPL/linux-x86-2.6/ /usr/src/linux
# export KERN_DIR=/usr/src/linux
# apt-get install libfontconfig1 libglib2.0-0 libice6 libsdl1.2debian libsm6 libx11-6 libxcursor1 libxext6 libxi6 libxmu6 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxslt1.1 libxt6 python2.4
# wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualb ... h_i386.deb
# dpkg -i virtualbox-2.2_2.2.2-46594_Debian_etch_i386.deb
Setting up virtualbox-2.2 (2.2.2-46594_Debian_etch) ...
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module: done.
Starting VirtualBox kernel module: done.
I guess I am confused about whether I should run the first set of command and then run the last set of commands. When I have tried it before I have run into a large GPL directory from unzipping the large zip file. I would appreciate further advice.
Thanks
BigBearf
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