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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 after using it for ages, plus its open and free :) Eventually, I may look into VMWare as well.
After a bit of messing around, got it installed. Since the system is based off of Debian, was easy to get VirtualBox itself there (deb package). The trickiest part was getting the kernel modules required installed (see end of post).
In the end, I've got Windows 2003 R2 running on my Pro, interacting with it via RDP, and I am happy with the performance. I've added an extra 1GB memory (for a total of 2GB). I assigned 1GB of ram to my virtual OS, which still leaves the default configuration of 1GB for the NAS itself (which is more than enough still, 800MB+ is always cached).
I made a 10GB virtual disk to install the OS on. If I need more space later for extra applications, I can just add another virtual drive to that installation. And since I always like a bit extra security, I went a bit beyond the usual, and also have TrueCrypt running full disk encryption in the virtual OS. So no one can even boot and read the data in that OS without my bootup password.
I don't really have any screenshots to show, just a standard Windows installation. Here is a few of the steps I used while creating the VM on the console:
VirtualBox 3.1 has changed the CLI configuration. Until I update this how-to, please reference this: http://www.uhleeka.com/blog/2009/12/vir ... 9-04-host/
With the OS booted up and just sitting at the desktop, top reports:
Ad-hoc installation of VirtualBox. Should work for RAIDiator 4.2.4. Download links for the kernel modules, for those who don't want to go through the mess of compiling them.
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 after using it for ages, plus its open and free :) Eventually, I may look into VMWare as well.
After a bit of messing around, got it installed. Since the system is based off of Debian, was easy to get VirtualBox itself there (deb package). The trickiest part was getting the kernel modules required installed (see end of post).
In the end, I've got Windows 2003 R2 running on my Pro, interacting with it via RDP, and I am happy with the performance. I've added an extra 1GB memory (for a total of 2GB). I assigned 1GB of ram to my virtual OS, which still leaves the default configuration of 1GB for the NAS itself (which is more than enough still, 800MB+ is always cached).
I made a 10GB virtual disk to install the OS on. If I need more space later for extra applications, I can just add another virtual drive to that installation. And since I always like a bit extra security, I went a bit beyond the usual, and also have TrueCrypt running full disk encryption in the virtual OS. So no one can even boot and read the data in that OS without my bootup password.
I don't really have any screenshots to show, just a standard Windows installation. Here is a few of the steps I used while creating the VM on the console:
VirtualBox 3.1 has changed the CLI configuration. Until I update this how-to, please reference this: http://www.uhleeka.com/blog/2009/12/vir ... 9-04-host/
# Creating the Virtual Machine.
$ VBoxManage createvm -name "Windows2003" -register
$ VBoxManage modifyvm "Windows2003" -memory "1024MB" -acpi on -boot1 dvd -nic1 nat
$ VBoxManage createvdi -filename "/c/backup/VirtualBox/Windows2003.vdi" -size 10000 -register
$ VBoxManage modifyvm "Windows2003" -hda "/c/backup/VirtualBox/Windows2003.vdi"
$ VBoxManage registerimage dvd /c/backup/VirtualBox/Windows2003Ent.iso
$ VBoxManage modifyvm "Windows2003" -dvd /c/backup/VirtualBox/Windows2003Ent.iso
$ VBoxHeadless -startvm "Windows2003" &
# Connected via Remote Desktop at this point.
# After the installation, first page requires Ctrl-Alt-Del, so I sent the keycodes.
$ VBoxManage controlvm "Windows2003" keyboardputscancode 1d 38 53
# System is up and running, time to install GuestAdditions for better video, etc.
$ wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/2.2.2/VBoxGuestAdditions_2.2.2.iso
$ VBoxManage registerimage dvd /c/backup/VirtualBox/VBoxGuestAdditions_2.2.2.iso
$ VBoxManage controlvm "Windows2003" dvdattach /c/backup/VirtualBox/VBoxGuestAdditions_2.2.2.iso
With the OS booted up and just sitting at the desktop, top reports:
top - 16:17:10 up 1 day, 17:58, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00
Tasks: 93 total, 1 running, 92 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.7%us, 0.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.2%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2072432k total, 2020100k used, 52332k free, 6120k buffers
Swap: 1048536k total, 144k used, 1048392k free, 784620k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
10297 root 20 0 1104m 1.0g 4720 S 4 52.5 57:31.53 VBoxHeadless
12792 root 20 0 46092 9520 1720 S 1 0.5 59:54.51 motion
12196 root 20 0 9196 7688 980 S 0 0.4 0:57.72 wastesrv
1 root 20 0 1948 600 508 S 0 0.0 0:01.30 init
Ad-hoc installation of VirtualBox. Should work for RAIDiator 4.2.4. Download links for the kernel modules, for those who don't want to go through the mess of compiling them.
$ mkdir /lib/modules/`uname -r`/miscOr, if you want to compile the kernel modules yourself:
$ cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc
$ wget http://www.readynas.com/contributed/chirpa/modules/virtualbox/pro/vboxdrv.ko
$ wget http://www.readynas.com/contributed/chirpa/modules/virtualbox/pro/vboxnetflt.ko
$ echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian etch non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
$ wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O- | apt-key add -
$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install virtualbox-2.1
$ /etc/init.d/vboxdrv start
envyious:/c/backup# echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian etch non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.listInstall of VirtualBox 2.2.2, before Sun updates the Debian Repository...
envyious:/c/backup# wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O- | apt-key add -
envyious:/c/backup# apt-get update && apt-get install build-essential
...
Setting up build-essential (11.3) ...
envyious:/c/backup# wget -q http://www.readynas.com/download/GPL/RNDP6xxx_4.2.4_WW_src.zip
envyious:/c/backup# unzip -q RNDP6xxx_4.2.4_WW_src.zip -d ./GPL
envyious:/c/backup# cd GPL/linux-x86-2.6/
envyious:/c/backup/GPL/linux-x86-2.6# make && make prepare
...
envyious:/c/backup/GPL/linux-x86-2.6# ln -s /c/backup/GPL/linux-x86-2.6/ /usr/src/linux
envyious:/c/backup/GPL/linux-x86-2.6# KERN_DIR=/usr/src/linux
envyious:/c/backup/GPL/linux-x86-2.6# apt-get install virtualbox-2.1
...
Setting up virtualbox-2.1 (2.1.4-42893_Debian_etch) ...
Adding group `vboxusers' (GID 101) ...
Done.
Messages emitted during module compilation will be logged to /var/log/vbox-install.log.
Success!
Starting VirtualBox kernel module: done.
envyious:/c/backup/GPL/linux-x86-2.6# cd
envyious:/c/backup/GPL/linux-x86-2.6# VBoxManage list vms
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.1.4
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.
# wget -q http://www.readynas.com/download/GPL/RNDP6xxx_4.2.4_WW_src.zip
# unzip -q RNDP6xxx_4.2.4_WW_src.zip -d ./GPL
# cd GPL/linux-x86-2.6/
# make && make prepare
# ln -s /c/backup/GPL/linux-x86-2.6/ /usr/src/linux
# export KERN_DIR=/usr/src/linux
# apt-get install libfontconfig1 libglib2.0-0 libice6 libsdl1.2debian libsm6 libx11-6 libxcursor1 libxext6 libxi6 libxmu6 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxslt1.1 libxt6 python2.4
# wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/2.2.2/virtualbox-2.2_2.2.2-46594_Debian_etch_i386.deb
# dpkg -i virtualbox-2.2_2.2.2-46594_Debian_etch_i386.deb
Setting up virtualbox-2.2 (2.2.2-46594_Debian_etch) ...
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module: done.
Starting VirtualBox kernel module: done.
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- After 15 pages of comments, me thinks a clean write up of how to install VB on a 64 bit machine could be in order...
I know - I should do it, not just say it - but I'm currently 1000 miles from my Ultra and not due back for a while. I recently factory defaulted my Ultra so need to reinstall VB (Plus I'm keen to try Stefan's new addon) so I can contribute a write up when I do get back
But if someone has the time/inclination in the meantime...? - Yeah, a lot has changed since I first made this thread. I may lock it soon, and link to a fresh thread using current firmwares.
WhoCares? wrote: Horim,
Have you seen this:chirpa wrote: Try this: # apt-get --reinstall install libc6-amd64
The 32-bit libcrypt.so is in the root image, but not the 64-bit one.
Also, the output of dmesg would be helpful.
-Stefan
ReadyNAS-PRO:/# apt-get --reinstall install libc6-amd64
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 41 not upgraded.
Need to get 4192kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
libc6-amd64
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Get:1 http://www.readynas.com 4.2.13/ libc6-amd64 2.7-18lenny2 [4192kB]
Fetched 4192kB in 5s (767kB/s)
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
(Reading database ... 21978 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6-amd64 2.7-18lenny2 (using .../libc6-amd64_2.7-18lenny2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6-amd64 ...
Setting up libc6-amd64 (2.7-18lenny2) ...
ReadyNAS-PRO:/# /etc/init.d/vboxdrv start
Starting VirtualBox kernel module ...failed!
(modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why)
ReadyNAS-PRO:/# vboxwebsrv
WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module
available for the current kernel (2.6.33.6.RNx86_64.2.1) or it failed to
load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by
sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
Oracle VM VirtualBox web service version 3.2.8
(C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation
All rights reserved.
2010-08-14 13:59:06 [ P ] Socket connection successful: host = default (localhost), port = 18083, master socket = 10
^C
ReadyNAS-PRO:/#
ReadyNAS-PRO:/# /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
Stopping VirtualBox kernel module ...done.
Removing old VirtualBox netadp kernel module ...done.
Removing old VirtualBox netflt kernel module ...done.
Removing old VirtualBox kernel module ...done.
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module ...failed!
(Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong)
it's not helped.. could you give me more advice..- Output of /var/log/vbox-install.log ?
chirpa wrote: Output of /var/log/vbox-install.log ? ReadyNAS-PRO:/# cat /var/log/vbox-install.log
Makefile:162: Warning: using /usr/src/linux as the source directory of your Linux kernel. If this is not correct, specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again.
Makefile:170: *** Error: /usr/src/linux (version 2.6.30.9.RNx86_64.2.2) does not match the current kernel (version 2.6.33.6.RNx86_64.2.1).- Looks like you have old GPL sources there, not current ones.
chirpa wrote: Looks like you have old GPL sources there, not current ones.
I've change 4.2.13 GPL source then it's working now. Thanks chirpa.
so I'm trying to install Windows 7 there, booting ok but there is no disk space to install. how can I add HDD at VM?
VBoxManage createvm --name "Windows 7" --ostype "Windows7" --register --basefolder /c/backup/virtualbox/machines
VBoxManage storagectl "Windows 7" --name "IDE Controller" --add ide
VBoxManage storageattach "Windows 7" --storagectl "IDE Controller" --port 0 --device 0 --type dvddrive --medium "/c/backup/CDs/mg_windows_7_ultimate_k_x86_x64_n7_dvd.iso"
VBoxManage modifyvm "Windows 7" --memory 512 --nic1 bridged --bridgeadapter1 eth0 --boot1 dvd --boot2 none --boot3 none --boot4 none- You need to create a virtual harddrive and also connect it to the virtual machine. -> http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.h ... ge-storage & http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.h ... -createvdi
-Stefan - So far, this is the plan for the new ReadyNAS pro installation. Look plausible?
- Hi.
I'm stuck with VirtualBox, cannot make it run.
I'm on a pro with latest raidiator version 4.2.13.
Have install vbox 3.2.8.
I've download the GPL, compiled the kernel, installed vbox via apt-get
& i'm stuck with the following error messageHydra:/c/workspace/GPL# VBoxHeadless --startvm fc13-1 --vrdpport 8888 --vrdp on
VBoxHeadless: Error -1912 in supR3HardenedMainInitRuntime!
VBoxHeadless: RTR3Init failed with rc=-1912
VBoxHeadless: Tip! It may help to reinstall VirtualBox.
Hydra:/c/workspace/GPL#
I've already tried# apt-get --reinstall install libc6-amd64
but without success
any advices ?
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