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ReadyNAS internal flash/USB
What is the internal USB and/or flash structure? How does the boot process work? Here is what read from small net builder review abut 626x : 256 MB USB module with Phison USB 3.0 controller and Tos...
my Virtualbox mamchine VM has no HDD Gb limitation. Just created 100Gb and works fine. i am sure it can be even bigger.
Where is that 20 GB limitation from?
There may be a limit, but it's certainly not 20GB. I believe there is also a limit on the number of drives. I'm not sure where you got that limit from. Mine is 64GB and I've tested with larger. I've had plans to try using raw drives, (How-to-use-a-physical-hard-drive-with-a-virtualbox-vm ) mostly to see if it's a viable solution for volume recovery, but I've not put into service the computer I was going to try it on.
that information re limitation is from the link you provided:
"The VM emulation on ReadyNAS OS has some restriction for disk size. The maximum size is 20GB. The maximum number of disks is 4. "
None of these are accurate.
If you are really interested in virtual, headless ESXi is better way to go. You can also run an incidence of xpenology.
Netgear may have failed to continue to include those restrictions in updates to the OS, either intentionally or accidently.
I've never tried ESXi. VirtualBox is the approved VM platform by my employer, so I have a lot of familiarity with it. Plus, you are the first to say the ReadyNAS VM will run under it. I only use the VM for experiments that might brick a real machine before I do it on a real one, so I don't really see a need to switch. But anyone starting fresh certainly might want to consider it.
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