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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...
jmalmlund
Apr 09, 2011Aspirant
Miniguide on installing/upgrading VirtualBox on RAIDiator 4.2.16.
Section 1 for new installations,
Section 1 for upgrades,
Section 2 for both new installs and upgrades.
Section 3, optional for upgraders, not relevant for new installs.
IF upgraders want to start clean with the install insert this command now to uninstall previous lingering VirtualBox components.
Section 4, install.
Note that it's the extpack that contains the RDP module...
Instructions on how to install/create/configure/start VM's might be added later if needed.
Edit: Fixed wrong parameter on uninstall command.
Edit 2: Added two lines to create a work-directory, "VirtualBox" on your data volume "c" to avoid filling the root filesystem (when logging in as root the default directory is /root/ which resides on the small 4GB system partition).
Also added a few "extra" make commands after Sebastien and I found that they were needed on his ReadyNAS to successfully build the VBox kernel modules, I didn't need them but since they don't hurt in any way (just takes a tad bit longer to complete the kernel preparations) I include them in the guide as a precaution.
Section 1 for new installations,
apt-get update
apt-get install build-essential amd64-libs lib64stdc++6 bzip2 lib64z1 lzma
apt-get --reinstall install libc6-amd64
Section 1 for upgrades,
apt-get update
apt-get -f install
Section 2 for both new installs and upgrades.
mkdir /c/VirtualBox
cd /c/VirtualBox
wget -q http://www.readynas.com/download/GPL/RNDP6xxx_4.2.16_WW_src.zip
unzip -q RNDP6xxx_4.2.16_WW_src.zip "linux-2.6.37.5/*"
ln -snf `pwd`/linux-2.6.37.5 /usr/src/linux
cd linux-2.6.37.5
cp arch/x86/configs/defconfig.smp .config
make ARCH=x86_64 silentoldconfig
make prepare
make modules_prepare
make
make modules
cd ..
wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.0.4/VirtualBox-4.0.4-70112-Linux_amd64.run
wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.0.4/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.0.4-70112.vbox-extpack
chmod 755 VirtualBox-4.0.4-70112-Linux_amd64.run
Section 3, optional for upgraders, not relevant for new installs.
IF upgraders want to start clean with the install insert this command now to uninstall previous lingering VirtualBox components.
./VirtualBox-4.0.4-70112-Linux_amd64.run uninstall
Section 4, install.
./VirtualBox-4.0.4-70112-Linux_amd64.run
/usr/bin/VBoxManage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.0.4-70112.vbox-extpack
Note that it's the extpack that contains the RDP module...
Instructions on how to install/create/configure/start VM's might be added later if needed.
Edit: Fixed wrong parameter on uninstall command.
Edit 2: Added two lines to create a work-directory, "VirtualBox" on your data volume "c" to avoid filling the root filesystem (when logging in as root the default directory is /root/ which resides on the small 4GB system partition).
Also added a few "extra" make commands after Sebastien and I found that they were needed on his ReadyNAS to successfully build the VBox kernel modules, I didn't need them but since they don't hurt in any way (just takes a tad bit longer to complete the kernel preparations) I include them in the guide as a precaution.
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