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virtualBox iSCSI initiator to ReadyNAS
I'm trying to get VirtualBox(OSX) to use its built in iSCSI initiator to make use of an ISCSI target I created through frontview on my Ultra2+. Having some problems, maybe someone can help.
I first was able to connect to the target using a trial version of globalSAN initiator. That initiator balked at first about connecting until I turned on iSCSI option to aways send "session type" when connecting. Then it connected and worked fine.
At any case, after verifying that iSCSI was working, I erased everything on that virtual disk, disconnected it from globalSAN, and then attempted to create a virtualbox VM that would use it instead with its built in initiator.
The steps for doing this involve command line usage, can see a tutorial here:
http://scarygliders.net/2011/11/04/virtualbox-and-iscsi-nas-how-to-linux-windows/
I can get the VM to attach the iSCSI target to the VM with the command line, and it shows up in virtualbox's virtual media manager, however unlike the tutorial above, it does not show the 50gb space, it rather shows a message that its "checking..". And then it spins forever like that. I am able to try to go ahead and try to start the VM, but it just blocks forever too, I guess waiting for the iSCSI target connection.
Does anyone have any experience doing something like this? I wonder if there is a special trick to get virtualBox initiator to connect to the ReadyNAS iSCSI target. With globalSan I had to set the session iSCSI option, is that the reason? Is there some trick to do that in virtualbox or does anyone have any experience doing this?
I first was able to connect to the target using a trial version of globalSAN initiator. That initiator balked at first about connecting until I turned on iSCSI option to aways send "session type" when connecting. Then it connected and worked fine.
By the way, once I formatted the virtual disk, I got 25mb/sec data rate using benchmarking tool (over wifi), which was 25x faster then what I got with AFP to the same NAS.
At any case, after verifying that iSCSI was working, I erased everything on that virtual disk, disconnected it from globalSAN, and then attempted to create a virtualbox VM that would use it instead with its built in initiator.
The steps for doing this involve command line usage, can see a tutorial here:
http://scarygliders.net/2011/11/04/virtualbox-and-iscsi-nas-how-to-linux-windows/
I can get the VM to attach the iSCSI target to the VM with the command line, and it shows up in virtualbox's virtual media manager, however unlike the tutorial above, it does not show the 50gb space, it rather shows a message that its "checking..". And then it spins forever like that. I am able to try to go ahead and try to start the VM, but it just blocks forever too, I guess waiting for the iSCSI target connection.
Does anyone have any experience doing something like this? I wonder if there is a special trick to get virtualBox initiator to connect to the ReadyNAS iSCSI target. With globalSan I had to set the session iSCSI option, is that the reason? Is there some trick to do that in virtualbox or does anyone have any experience doing this?
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