Running VirtualBox VM host on ReadyNAS Pro

jmalmlund wrote:

For those who like me update to VirtualBox 4.0.x, remember that Oracle have change how VBox is packaged and distributed (all binaries are now GPLv2 and no longer ships with VRDP support built in). This is what I did to install and run 4.0.2 (slightly adopted for easier copy and paste of my commands) and remember that if you log in as root (you really shouldn't) you can skip the 'sudo' part of all the listed commands. apt-get update apt-get install build-essential amd64-libs lib64stdc++6 bzip2 lib64z1 lzma apt-get --reinstall install libc6-amd64 wget -q http://www.readynas.com/download/GPL/RNDP6xxx_4.2.15_WW_src.zip unzip -q RNDP6xxx_4.2.15_WW_src.zip "linux-2.6.33.7/*" sudo ln -sn `pwd`/linux-2.6.33.7 /usr/src/linux cd linux-2.6.33.7 make ARCH=x86_64 make prepare cd .. wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.0.2/VirtualBox-4.0.2-69518-Linux_amd64.run wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.0.2/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.0.2-69518.vbox-extpack chmod 755 VirtualBox-4.0.2-69518-Linux_amd64.run sudo ./VirtualBox-4.0.2-69518-Linux_amd64.run sudo /usr/bin/VBoxManage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.0.2-69518.vbox-extpack Note that it's the extpack that contains the RDP module... I won't repeat instructions on how to do a basic setup of a virtual machine, only the additions/changes needed for VBox 4.0 VBoxManage modifyvm <uuid|name> --vrde on --vrdeaddress <host ip> --vrdeport <port for RDP> After this all that's needed to start is VBoxHeadless --startvm <uuid|name> & Or if you don't want to configure your machines with static ip/ports for RDP use VBoxHeadless --startvm <uuid|name> --vrde on --vrdeaddress <host ip> --vrdeport <port for RDP> & Edit: Added an '&' to the start command to put the process in the background and returning you to the prompt, which enables you to logout and disconnect your ssh session.