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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 24, 2009Aspirant
@chirpa
Thanks for your response.
1. downloaded the .gz file and chmod to 777
2. #tar xvf RAIDiator-x86-4.2.7-T51-Kernel.tar
3. #make && make prepare and got error to run make oldconfig and got "configuration written to .config"
4. Ran #make oldconfig and got "configuration written to .config"
5. Ran #make prepare (OK no errors)
6. Ran # ln -s /c/backup/GPL/linux-x86-2.6/ /usr/src/linux (OK I think.)
7. Ran #./VirtualBox-3.0.8-53138-Linux_amd64.run.sh
Any further suggestions or directions?
BigBearf
Thanks for your response.
1. downloaded the .gz file and chmod to 777
2. #tar xvf RAIDiator-x86-4.2.7-T51-Kernel.tar
3. #make && make prepare and got error to run make oldconfig and got "configuration written to .config"
4. Ran #make oldconfig and got "configuration written to .config"
5. Ran #make prepare (OK no errors)
6. Ran # ln -s /c/backup/GPL/linux-x86-2.6/ /usr/src/linux (OK I think.)
7. Ran #./VirtualBox-3.0.8-53138-Linux_amd64.run.sh
nas-EA-33-DF:/backup# ./VirtualBox-3.0.8-53138-Linux_amd64.run.sh
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox for Linux installation.........
VirtualBox Version 3.0.8 r53138 (2009-10-02T09:38:05Z) installer
Removing previous installation of VirtualBox 3.0.8 r53138 from /opt/VirtualBox
Installing VirtualBox to /opt/VirtualBox
ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/share/applications/virtualbox.desktop' to `/opt/VirtualBox/virtualbox.desktop': No such file or directory
Python found: python, installing bindings...
/bin/bash: python: command not found
Building the VirtualBox vboxdrv kernel module
Failed to build the vboxdrv kernel module.
Please check the log file /var/log/vbox-install.log for more information.
VirtualBox has been installed successfully, but the kernel module could not
be built. When you have fixed the problems preventing this, execute
/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
as administrator to build it.
You will find useful information about using VirtualBox in the user manual
/opt/VirtualBox/UserManual.pdf
and in the user FAQ
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/User_FAQ
We hope that you enjoy using VirtualBox.
nas-EA-33-DF:/backup# export KERN_DIR=/usr/src/linux
nas-EA-33-DF:/backup# ./VirtualBox-3.0.8-53138-Linux_amd64.run.sh
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox for Linux installation.........
VirtualBox Version 3.0.8 r53138 (2009-10-02T09:38:05Z) installer
Removing previous installation of VirtualBox 3.0.8 r53138 from /opt/VirtualBox
Installing VirtualBox to /opt/VirtualBox
ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/share/applications/virtualbox.desktop' to `/opt/VirtualBox/virtualbox.desktop': No such file or directory
Python found: python, installing bindings...
/bin/bash: python: command not found
Building the VirtualBox vboxdrv kernel module
Failed to build the vboxdrv kernel module.
Please check the log file /var/log/vbox-install.log for more information.
VirtualBox has been installed successfully, but the kernel module could not
be built. When you have fixed the problems preventing this, execute
/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
as administrator to build it.
You will find useful information about using VirtualBox in the user manual
/opt/VirtualBox/UserManual.pdf
and in the user FAQ
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/User_FAQ
We hope that you enjoy using VirtualBox.
nas-EA-33-DF:/backup# nas-EA
Any further suggestions or directions?
BigBearf
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