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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...
Here is my desk Pro that was running 4.2.5, updated to 4.2.7, installing VirtualBox for the first time...
# apt-get update;apt-get install build-essential amd64-libs lib64stdc++6 bzip2
...
Setting up build-essential (11.3) ...
Setting up amd64-libs (1.4) ...
Setting up bzip2 (1.0.3-6) ...
Setting up lib64stdc++6 (4.1.1-21) ...
# cd /c/backup/
# wget http://www.readynas.com/download/GPL/RNDP6xxx_4.2.7_WW_src.zip
2009-11-04 18:27:41 (2.97 MB/s) - `RNDP6xxx_4.2.7_WW_src.zip' saved [605547954/605547954]
# unzip -q RNDP6xxx_4.2.7_WW_src.zip -d ./GPL
# cd GPL/linux-x86-2.6/
# make oldconfig; make all
... ... (this takes a long time)
# ln -s /c/backup/GPL/linux-x86-2.6/ /usr/src/linux
# cd; wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.0.10/VirtualBox-3.0.10-54097-Linux_amd64.run
2009-11-04 18:40:10 (4.21 MB/s) - `VirtualBox-3.0.10-54097-Linux_amd64.run?e=1257389097&h=da6ad1eb269ffcef8eb694d85ef1cab4' saved [50677201/50677201]
# mv VirtualBox-3.0.10-54097-Linux_amd64.run\?e\=1257389097\&h\=da6ad1eb269ffcef8eb694d85ef1cab4 VirtualBox-3.0.10-54097-Linux_amd64.run
# chmod +x VirtualBox-3.0.10-54097-Linux_amd64.run
# ./VirtualBox-3.0.10-54097-Linux_amd64.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox for Linux installation.........
VirtualBox Version 3.0.10 r54097 (2009-10-29T13:31:14Z) installer
Installing VirtualBox to /opt/VirtualBox
Python found: python, installing bindings...
/bin/bash: python: command not found
Building the VirtualBox vboxdrv kernel module
Building the VirtualBox netflt kernel module
Building the VirtualBox netadp kernel module
VirtualBox has been installed successfully.
# VBoxManage list hostinfo
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.0.10
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Host Information:
Host time: 2009-11-05T02:56:21.269000000Z
Processor online count: 2
Processor count: 2
Processor#0 speed: 1800 MHz
Processor#1 speed: 1800 MHz
Memory size: 494 MByte
Memory available: 390 MByte
Operating system: Linux
Operating system version: 2.6.30.9.RNx86_64.2.1
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