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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...
dsm1212
Apr 01, 2013Apprentice
I've been running two, but not continuously. I start and steop them as needed so that are not always running. The interesting thing is that twice when I left one running for a couple of days it got into a bad state. When it did I tried to stop/start the services I was using and the stop command was giving me errors so, as you reported too, I just restarted the vbox and was back again. It happened twice. For what I'm doing I don't mind this behavior that much, but if I see it again I'll check IO waits. Could be a compatibility with the network drivers on the NAS or something.
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