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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...
troypiggo1
Jun 26, 2011Tutor
Xaver wrote: @ troypiggo
# VBoxManage setproperty machinefolder "`pwd`"
???
where is your default machine folder set?
you should set it to e.g /c/VirtualBox or something you may have created.
I'm pretty sure that VBox is creating a new drive at the default machine folder if you do not specific a path.
please run this commandVBoxManage showvminfo "Lucid" > Lucid.txt
and check the paths in the first 5 lines and somewhere in the middle of the txt file (look for "IDE Controller (0, 0): ...")
i guess the the Virtual drive for your vbox is created in your root partition and during the install it gets filled till the limit of the partition is reached
As I suspected (and really, really hoped I was right) above, `pwd` was in fact /c/VirtualBox. Does anything else in here look amiss to those with more experienced VB eyes?
Name: Lucid
Guest OS: Ubuntu
UUID: 758b714b-b394-4947-8dde-86aeeba418be
Config file: /c/VirtualBox/Lucid/Lucid.vbox
Snapshot folder: /c/VirtualBox/Lucid/Snapshots
Log folder: /c/VirtualBox/Lucid/Logs
Hardware UUID: 758b714b-b394-4947-8dde-86aeeba418be
Memory size: 1024MB
Page Fusion: off
VRAM size: 32MB
HPET: off
Chipset: piix3
Firmware: BIOS
Number of CPUs: 1
Synthetic Cpu: off
CPUID overrides: None
Boot menu mode: message and menu
Boot Device (1): DVD
Boot Device (2): HardDisk
Boot Device (3): Not Assigned
Boot Device (4): Not Assigned
ACPI: on
IOAPIC: off
PAE: off
Time offset: 0 ms
RTC: local time
Hardw. virt.ext: off
Hardw. virt.ext exclusive: off
Nested Paging: off
Large Pages: off
VT-x VPID: off
State: powered off (since 2011-06-20T00:20:02.000000000)
Monitor count: 1
3D Acceleration: off
2D Video Acceleration: off
Teleporter Enabled: off
Teleporter Port: 0
Teleporter Address:
Teleporter Password:
Storage Controller Name (0): IDE Controller
Storage Controller Type (0): PIIX4
Storage Controller Instance Number (0): 0
Storage Controller Max Port Count (0): 2
Storage Controller Port Count (0): 2
Storage Controller Bootable (0): on
IDE Controller (0, 0): /c/VirtualBox/Lucid.vdi (UUID: 363b1622-250e-44c5-931c-9
95b37c45ebe)
IDE Controller (0, 1): /c/downloads/ubuntu-10.04.2-server-i386.iso (UUID: 98b5f
c2b-9d00-4581-9a52-9dc24b7a0907)
NIC 1: MAC: 08002770BF35, Attachment: NAT, Cable connected: on, Trace
: off (file: none), Type: 82540EM, Reported speed: 0 Mbps, Boot priority: 0
NIC 1 Settings: MTU: 0, Socket( send: 64, receive: 64), TCP Window( send:64, r
eceive: 64)
NIC 2: disabled
NIC 3: disabled
NIC 4: disabled
NIC 5: disabled
NIC 6: disabled
NIC 7: disabled
NIC 8: disabled
Pointing Device: PS/2 Mouse
Keyboard Device: PS/2 Keyboard
UART 1: disabled
UART 2: disabled
Audio: disabled
Clipboard Mode: Bidirectional
VRDE: disabled
USB: disabled
USB Device Filters:
<none>
Available remote USB devices:
<none>
Currently Attached USB Devices:
<none>
Shared folders: <none>
VRDE Connection: not active
Clients so far: 0
Guest:
OS type: Ubuntu
Additions run level: 0
Configured memory balloon size: 0 MB
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