ReadyNas OS in Virtualbox: No disks detected.

[z3non]

Dear community,

I followed the description on github [1] to run the ReadyNAS OS inside a virtualbox. When I start the VM I always receive the error "No disks detected" (see [2] ) and it stops in a busybox shell.

I have tried the following images:

ReadyNASOS-6.4.2-x86_64.vmdk

ReadyNASOS-6.5.2-x86_64.vmdk

ReadyNASOS-6.6.0-x86_64.vmdk

My VirtualBox version is 5.2.6 running on windows 10.

Any help would be appreciated!

[1]  https://github.com/ReadyNAS/sdk/wiki/Setup-ReadyNAS-OS-on-VirtualBox

[2]  

[z3non · Accepted solution]

Yes, I was supplying SATA disks. But I found out now that the minimum size has to be about 5 GB for the VM image to start up. For a SATA disk of 4 GB size it returns a partitioning error. This of course helps a lot. For disk sizes below 4 GB only the described error ("No disks detected") appears which is quite misleading.

Anyway, I did not take into consideration that the VM emulation of the ReadyNAS OS creates a 4 GB root and 0.5 GB swap partition on each disk - but this of course seems logical as this is the same behavior like with the hardware version.

A hint on the github-page would be helpful. The maximum disk size of 20 GB is mentioned there. This would just be the right place to mention also the minium disk size.

[mdgm-ntgr]

Are you supplying virtual SATA disks to it? If not, please try that.

[z3non · Accepted solution]

Yes, I was supplying SATA disks. But I found out now that the minimum size has to be about 5 GB for the VM image to start up. For a SATA disk of 4 GB size it returns a partitioning error. This of course helps a lot. For disk sizes below 4 GB only the described error ("No disks detected") appears which is quite misleading.

Anyway, I did not take into consideration that the VM emulation of the ReadyNAS OS creates a 4 GB root and 0.5 GB swap partition on each disk - but this of course seems logical as this is the same behavior like with the hardware version.

A hint on the github-page would be helpful. The maximum disk size of 20 GB is mentioned there. This would just be the right place to mention also the minium disk size.