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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
Nov 10, 2011Aspirant
invader980 wrote:
prometheus wrote: Is this likely to become an installable package :D
i would be really interested in running this on my ultra 4
secound that .... which i had the know how to put this together i feel so left out :( lol
I doubt that this will ever become an installable package, sure it could be done but I'll share my thoughts as to why it's unlikely.
1. To install VirtualBox there are a number of pre-requisits that needs to be in place, build-essentials for example. These are usually not hard to install, just do
apt-get updateand one should be ready to install VirtualBox.
apt-get install build-essential amd64-libs lib64stdc++6 bzip2 lib64z1 lzma
apt-get --reinstall install libc6-amd64
Only problem is that the software-repository holding these components for 4.2.19 is broken with version mismatches and creating an add-on that first downgrades the installed RAIDiator software to 4.2.17, a version that to my knowledge doesn't work well with Mac OS X Lion afp isn't a good idea.
2. To have any real use for VirtualBox on a ReadyNAS a memory-upgrade is also needed, the stock 1GB won't get anyone very far when considering that about half of that is needed to run the ReadyNAS itself. I've got 2GB ram in my Pro Pioneer and if I run transmission and a VirtualBox computer with any more than 256MB memory the ReadyNAS starts swaping out memory to disk which can really slow everything to a crawl, or even a complete system crash (ReadyNAS looks up only to reboot it self moments later, happened to me twice when trying to allocate more memory to a vm computer).
3. Every ReadyNAS in the Ultra series except for the Ultra 6 Plus uses Intel Atom cpu's and Ultra 4 Plus is the first to feature dual-core cpu's, but even so I wouldn't even consider running any virtualization software on an Atom cpu, they are simply not designed for it.
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