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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...
invader980
Nov 12, 2011Aspirant
jmalmlund wrote:
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 doapt-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.
agreed... i run the ultra 4 plus so i am runing the atom dual core ... and a ram upgrade for such a reason + i dont do apple product so im the perfect candidate for a beta app ;) lol (J/K), the potential draw backs r pretty major but the potential u open ur nas up to is exponential i would even go so far as to experiment with the 4gb upgrades people have gotten working to do soo.... i think an atom dual core has much unlocked potential and can do some major work (aside from the obvious cpu intensive task).I think the limited os it has is handy capping this amazing nas... i mean there are alot of simple task that can be accomplished with a handy windows app that if my nas is already on ... id love for it to preform for me vs turning on a comp to do such. Ive made plenty of atom based systems for people to do simple task (eg: media encoding (not hd of course) / seed box / folder syncing & unraring/encryption/ Virtual hard mounting ) that although it will do it SLOWLY its out of site out of mind always on & low consumption and it WILL get the task done with 24 hours 7 days a week to work on it lol (granted most of this there r current add-ons for )
credit were credit is due ... the readynas has one of the most amazing communities ive ever seen for a line of product and the amount/usefullness of the ad-ons created for it are amazing . I'm in love with my readynas lol , unfortunately i dont live in the world of linux so there very little i can do outside the add-ons created for it to customize it :( ( other then bugg everyone to make an app for me )
thanx for the info ( will keep my fingers cross , and a single tear lol) maybe one day ill get the guts to dive into this and see if i can make this happen
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