Running VirtualBox VM host on ReadyNAS Pro

VirtualBox 3.0.2 (released 2009-07-10) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343) VMM: guest SMP performance improvements VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security (VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778) VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868) ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348) APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression) BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236) OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452) NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330) 3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399) 3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595) Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows guest (bug #4381) X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344 X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727) Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests (for time synchronization and guest properties) Windows Additions: fixed version lookup Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335) Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388) Installer: support Pardus Linux Solaris hosts: several installer fixes Solaris host: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328). Solaris guest: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978) OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) Fixed a settings file conversion bug which sometimes caused hardware acceleration to be enabled for virtual machines that had no explicit configuration in the XML.

# apt-get update && apt-get install build-essential

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  build-essential: Depends: libc6-dev but it is not going to be installed or
                            libc-dev
                   Depends: g++ (>= 4:4.1.1) but it is not going to be installed

# apt-get install libc6-dev

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.7-18) but 2.3.6.ds1-13etch9+b1 is to be installed
             Depends: linux-libc-dev but it is not installable

deb http://www.readynas.com/packages readynas-x86/

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

    * VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)
    * VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)
    * VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)
    * VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot
    * VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)
    * VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)
    * VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)
    * SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)
    * SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)
    * 3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for multithreaded applications (bug #3922)
    * 3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications
    * 3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty
    * NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)
    * NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)
    * NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)
    * iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks
    * GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on Windows (bug #4354)
    * GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display (bug #4654)
    * GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top
    * GUI: don’t crash when adding plus configuring host-only network interfaces
    * Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path in VirtualBox (Windows host only)
    * USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB devicefilter settings inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)
    * Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest properties (bug #3415)
    * Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #1461)
    * Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard
    * Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)
    * Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service fails to find any DVD drives.
    * Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in Qt (bug #4353)
    * Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking
    * Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)
    * Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)
    * X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)
    * X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)
    * X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and guest-drawn mouse pointers.
    * X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238). 

** Compiling vboxdrv
Makefile:150: 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:158: *** Error: /usr/src/linux (version 2.6.27.6.RNx86.2.1) does not match the current kernel (version 2.6.27.6.RNx86.1.1).  Stop.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Recommended packages:
  libsdl-ttf2.0-0 linux-headers libhal1 pdf-viewer libgl1 python-central
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  virtualbox-3.0
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/50.2MB of archives.
After unpacking 102MB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 22370 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking virtualbox-3.0 (from .../virtualbox-3.0_3.0.4-50677%5fDebian%5fetch_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/virtualbox-3.0_3.0.4-50677%5fDebian%5fetch_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 123
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/virtualbox-3.0_3.0.4-50677%5fDebian%5fetch_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)