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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...
Thanks for updating. I couldn't get a straight answer if 4.3 was really the best version so I went up to 4.2.22 which has worked out well. I did get the Q6600 and 8GB of RAM and I am able to pretty easily run 3 medium sized vms. The Q6600 runs a little hotter than I expected but I don't think the virtualbox adds too much, unless the vms start using a lot of cpu of course.
I'm still working out my nagios metrics which was built using eznag and can track data with pnp4nagios so I should be able to figure out in time if 4.2 or 4.3 is better if I really get ambitious.
I clipped and saved one of mattyshack's last updates (vbox 4.3.2/readynas 4.2.24), but I thought he'd posted a bunch of version and the general process was mostly the same. He really helped us all out with those notes.
I'm still working out my nagios metrics which was built using eznag and can track data with pnp4nagios so I should be able to figure out in time if 4.2 or 4.3 is better if I really get ambitious.
I clipped and saved one of mattyshack's last updates (vbox 4.3.2/readynas 4.2.24), but I thought he'd posted a bunch of version and the general process was mostly the same. He really helped us all out with those notes.
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