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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...
Mackila
Feb 24, 2011Aspirant
Hi,
You are the guy who made me buy 2x4GB for my pro...
As I changed processor to E6600, I use my nas to host some VM.
I got them running "as services" with help from scripts from here and there.
When you want to start a VM then disconnect your ssh session, & is not enough. It only sends VBoxHeadless to the background, but it stays attached to your ssh session.
Try this instead :
- Mackila
You are the guy who made me buy 2x4GB for my pro...
As I changed processor to E6600, I use my nas to host some VM.
I got them running "as services" with help from scripts from here and there.
When you want to start a VM then disconnect your ssh session, & is not enough. It only sends VBoxHeadless to the background, but it stays attached to your ssh session.
Try this instead :
nohup VBoxHeadless --startvm <uuid|name> --vrde on --vrdeaddress <host ip> --vrdeport <port for RDP> &
- Mackila
fbmachines wrote:
jmalmlund wrote: Edited my start command in the previous post.. you just need to add an '&' to the end of the start command to put the VBox process into the background allowing you to disconnect your ssh session.
Thanks! I'll give it a try when I get home. I knew it had to be something simple.
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