umaniac Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 I'd like to say thanks to everybody contributing to this thread. I had my old server die on me (very old hardware) and built a new one powerful enough to run VirtualBox. The scripts on the first page worked like a charm and I now have VirtualBox 4.0.6 running a few VMs and am able to retire 2 other PCs. This is excellent. The server is running faster then ever, and the VMs are also very fast, thanks to being migrated to modern hardware. I used CloneVDI to migrate old windows machines into VirtualBox and had no problems anywhere (that were not addressed in this thread). The only thing that might be pointed out is after running the first script, you should run VirtualBox-xxxx.run to install VirtualBox. Then run the second script to create the package that will be reinstalled on startup. Then just put vboxmanage startvm command in the go script for each VM that need to autostart. Now the only thing left to do is get unraid to run a script when I press stop so I can execute 'vboxmanage controlvm savestate' for my vm's so they release their hold on the disks. Any ideas here? kg Quote Link to comment
Snowball Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 this may seem like a stupid question but how do i get to the vm if i manage to get it running. Quote Link to comment
umaniac Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 By using Remote Desktop. It's explained earlier in the thread. In my case I run mstsc.exe tower:3000, or :3001 depending on what vm I'm connecting to. Quote Link to comment
theone Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 I ran both script and when I run "installpkg VirtualBox-4.0.2-unRAID.tgz" I get the following: Verifying package VirtualBox-4.0.2-unRAID.tgz. Installing package VirtualBox-4.0.2-unRAID.tgz: PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: Executing install script for VirtualBox-4.0.2-unRAID.tgz. insmod: can't read '/lib/modules/2.6.32.9-unRAID/misc/vboxdrv.ko': No such file or directory insmod: can't read '/lib/modules/2.6.32.9-unRAID/misc/vboxnetadp.ko': No such file or directory insmod: can't read '/lib/modules/2.6.32.9-unRAID/misc/vboxnetflt.ko': No such file or directory ln: creating symbolic link `/root/.VirtualBox/vbox': Operation not permitted Package VirtualBox-4.0.2-unRAID.tgz installed. and when I run: VBoxManage setproperty websrvauthlibrary null vboxwebsrv -b -H 127.0.0.1 --logfile /dev/null >/dev/null I get "command not found" for both. What is wrong? Quote Link to comment
Jumario Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 Has anyone got this working in 5.0b6? Would be a great help with additions/corrections to the original instructions/scripts to use with 5.0b6 Quote Link to comment
Joe L. Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 I ran both script and when I run "installpkg VirtualBox-4.0.2-unRAID.tgz" I get the following: Verifying package VirtualBox-4.0.2-unRAID.tgz. Installing package VirtualBox-4.0.2-unRAID.tgz: PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: Executing install script for VirtualBox-4.0.2-unRAID.tgz. insmod: can't read '/lib/modules/2.6.32.9-unRAID/misc/vboxdrv.ko': No such file or directory insmod: can't read '/lib/modules/2.6.32.9-unRAID/misc/vboxnetadp.ko': No such file or directory insmod: can't read '/lib/modules/2.6.32.9-unRAID/misc/vboxnetflt.ko': No such file or directory ln: creating symbolic link `/root/.VirtualBox/vbox': Operation not permitted Package VirtualBox-4.0.2-unRAID.tgz installed. and when I run: VBoxManage setproperty websrvauthlibrary null vboxwebsrv -b -H 127.0.0.1 --logfile /dev/null >/dev/null I get "command not found" for both. What is wrong? Easy, the version of VirtualBox you are attempting to install was compiled for an older version of Linux. unRAID 5.0b6 uses 2.6.36.2-unRAID, not 2.6.32.9-unRAID as in the unRAID 4.7 version. Try this on your system. ls /lib/modules Quote Link to comment
gfjardim Posted May 25, 2011 Author Share Posted May 25, 2011 Joe, assuming he is using v4.7 as in his signature, I would suggest that he reboot the system and try all over again. For those searching for v5.x scripts, I attached them. Vbox_unRAID_5x.zip Quote Link to comment
theone Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 Joe, assuming he is using v4.7 as in his signature, I would suggest that he reboot the system and try all over again. For those searching for v5.x scripts, I attached them. Thank you both Joe and gfjardim. I am testing the virtualbox on a test server 5.0beta6a. I will try the new scripts. Quote Link to comment
meep Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 let us know how you get on - I want to do this soon.... Would be great if you could update the how to for 5.x if you find any differences. Quote Link to comment
Jumario Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 I second that. Looking forward to your findings Theone Quote Link to comment
funbubba Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 Hey guys, I just wanted to share some experience with a problem I had with regards to VirtualBox and Transmission playing in the same sandbox. Sometime after installing VBox, I could no longer start transmission-daemon, and kept getting this error message on my syslog: mmm dd hh:mm tower transmission-daemon: transmission-daemon Failed to daemonize: No such device (daemon.c:474) Eventually I determined that this line in my go script was causing it: vboxwebsrv -b -H 127.0.0.1 --logfile /dev/null >/dev/null I changed it to this and both daemons seem to be playing nice: vboxwebsrv -b -H 127.0.0.1 >/dev/null My question would be: Are there any repercussions with not stating the logfile? Would it be better if I let it create a logfile in a non-array disk? Some background on my setup, if it makes any difference. I'm running unRAID 4.5.6 and Transmission 2.11 installed on top of the 2.0.1 package from unMENU. Transmission seems to run okay if it's started before vboxweb but I wanted to be able to restart it without rebooting the server. -fb Quote Link to comment
gfjardim Posted May 25, 2011 Author Share Posted May 25, 2011 I'm using this syntax to launch the webserver: vboxwebsrv -H 0.0.0.0 1>/dev/null 2>&1 & It's working really well without any log. Quote Link to comment
theone Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 I have run the v5 scripts but get errors - more accurately: tar: linux-2.6.36.2/arch/microblaze/boot/dts/system.dts: Cannot create symlink to `../../platform/generic/system.dts': Operation not permitted tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors cp: cannot create symbolic link `/boot/scripts/headers/linux-2.6.36.2/linux': Operation not permitted mv: cannot create symbolic link `/usr/include/linux_original/linux': Operation not permitted mv: cannot create symbolic link `/usr/include/asm-generic_original/asm-generic': Operation not permitted mv: cannot create symbolic link `/usr/include/asm_original/asm': Operation not permitted ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/include/asm-generic/asm-generic': Operation not permitted ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/include/linux/linux': Operation not permitted ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/include/asm/asm': Operation not permitted HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep HOSTCC scripts/basic/docproc In file included from /usr/include/asm/sigcontext.h:5, from /usr/include/bits/sigcontext.h:28, from /usr/include/signal.h:339, from /usr/include/sys/wait.h:31, from scripts/basic/docproc.c:46: /usr/include/linux/types.h:13:2: warning: #warning "Attempt to use kernel headers from user space, see http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelHeaders" I am testing it on a virtualbox running under windows. attached are the scripts' log files. Virtualbox_v5_scripts_logs.zip Quote Link to comment
Joe L. Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 I have run the v5 scripts but get errors - more accurately: tar: linux-2.6.36.2/arch/microblaze/boot/dts/system.dts: Cannot create symlink to `../../platform/generic/system.dts': Operation not permitted tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors cp: cannot create symbolic link `/boot/scripts/headers/linux-2.6.36.2/linux': Operation not permitted mv: cannot create symbolic link `/usr/include/linux_original/linux': Operation not permitted mv: cannot create symbolic link `/usr/include/asm-generic_original/asm-generic': Operation not permitted mv: cannot create symbolic link `/usr/include/asm_original/asm': Operation not permitted ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/include/asm-generic/asm-generic': Operation not permitted ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/include/linux/linux': Operation not permitted ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/include/asm/asm': Operation not permitted HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep HOSTCC scripts/basic/docproc In file included from /usr/include/asm/sigcontext.h:5, from /usr/include/bits/sigcontext.h:28, from /usr/include/signal.h:339, from /usr/include/sys/wait.h:31, from scripts/basic/docproc.c:46: /usr/include/linux/types.h:13:2: warning: #warning "Attempt to use kernel headers from user space, see http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelHeaders" I am testing it on a virtualbox running under windows. attached are the scripts' log files. That is easier. The /boot file system is a "fat" file system ans symbolic links are not supported, just like it says. Quote Link to comment
theone Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 OK, so I tried running the v4 scripts on my production server :'( and got the following on the 2nd script: cp: failed to get attributes of `/opt': No such file or directory cp: failed to get attributes of `/lib/modules/2.6.32.9-unRAID/misc': No such file or directory cp: failed to get attributes of `/lib/modules/2.6.32.9-unRAID/misc': No such file or directory cp: failed to get attributes of `/lib/modules/2.6.32.9-unRAID/misc': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `/etc/vbox': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `/etc/udev/rules.d/10-vboxdrv.rules': No such file or directory Slackware package maker, version 2.1. Searching for symbolic links: No symbolic links were found, so we won't make an installation script. You can make your own later in ./install/doinst.sh and rebuild the package if you like. This next step is optional - you can set the directories in your package to some sane permissions. If any of the directories in your package have special permissions, then DO NOT reset them here! Would you like to reset all directory permissions to 755 (drwxr-xr-x) and directory ownerships to root.root ([y]es, [n]o)? y mode of `.' retained as 0755 (rwxr-xr-x) mode of `./etc' retained as 0755 (rwxr-xr-x) mode of `./etc/udev' retained as 0755 (rwxr-xr-x) mode of `./etc/udev/rules.d' retained as 0755 (rwxr-xr-x) mode of `./lib' retained as 0755 (rwxr-xr-x) mode of `./lib/modules' retained as 0755 (rwxr-xr-x) mode of `./lib/modules/2.6.32.9-unRAID' retained as 0755 (rwxr-xr-x) mode of `./install' retained as 0755 (rwxr-xr-x) ownership of `.' retained as root:root ownership of `./etc' retained as root:root ownership of `./etc/udev' retained as root:root ownership of `./etc/udev/rules.d' retained as root:root ownership of `./lib' retained as root:root ownership of `./lib/modules' retained as root:root ownership of `./lib/modules/2.6.32.9-unRAID' retained as root:root ownership of `./install' retained as root:root Creating tar file VirtualBox-4.0.2-unRAID.tar... ./ etc/ etc/udev/ etc/udev/rules.d/ lib/ lib/modules/ lib/modules/2.6.32.9-unRAID/ tar-1.13: VirtualBox-4.0.2-unRAID.tar is the archive; not dumped install/ install/doinst.sh Gzipping VirtualBox-4.0.2-unRAID.tar... Renaming VirtualBox-4.0.2-unRAID.tar.gz to VirtualBox-4.0.2-unRAID.tgz... Moving VirtualBox-4.0.2-unRAID.tgz to ..... Package creation complete. the listed directories indeed don't exist - where should they have come from? Quote Link to comment
gfjardim Posted May 26, 2011 Author Share Posted May 26, 2011 In the first case, these scripts are intended to be run from a disk in the array, commonly the cache drive (e.g. /mnt/cache or /mnt/disk1), because the flash drive is formated in FAT. In the second problem, are you sure that Vbox installed successfully? Because neither scripts install Vbox, the first one only set the compilation environment and the second one only creates the package, you have to install Vbox yourself between the scripts. Quote Link to comment
theone Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 In the first case, these scripts are intended to be run from a disk in the array, commonly the cache drive (e.g. /mnt/cache or /mnt/disk1), because the flash drive is formated in FAT. In the second problem, are you sure that Vbox installed successfully? Because neither scripts install Vbox, the first one only set the compilation environment and the second one only creates the package, you have to install Vbox yourself between the scripts. I am running them from the Cache drive. I indeed missed out installation of Vbox. Does it matter which version? can I install the latest one 4.0.8? Quote Link to comment
gfjardim Posted May 26, 2011 Author Share Posted May 26, 2011 It should be compatible with the new version, but I didn't test it. Quote Link to comment
funbubba Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 I'm using this syntax to launch the webserver: vboxwebsrv -H 0.0.0.0 1>/dev/null 2>&1 & It's working really well without any log. Cool cool. I'll keep mine the way it is until I break something else then. I indeed missed out installation of Vbox. Does it matter which version? can I install the latest one 4.0.8? I installed 4.0.8 just fine. There was no deviation from the procedure other than correctly naming the package the second script makes. Quote Link to comment
theone Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 OK, got it running under unRAID v4.7 including the phpVirtualBox web interface. I don't have a CD/DVD on my unRAID server. I have an image (ISO) of the Windows 7 installation DVD. Now... How do I install Windows 7? edited: OK I figured It out - point the CD/DVD storage device to the ISO file... SO OBVIOUS !? now installing... Another question: How can I use the keyboard and mouse to do the setup ..? I installed the "Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.0.8-71778.vbox-extpack" using: vboxmanage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.0.0-69151.vbox-extpack which should have enabled the console (currently grayed out) - but didn't. Has anyone gotten the console to work? Quote Link to comment
perfessor101 Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 To access the Virtual Machine it's easiest to use the Remote Desktop function of windows ... (on my iPhone I have Mocha RDP - also a lite version available) I'll reinstall VirtualBox and check the options for adding the USB filter driver to a VM (under the USB section for the Virtual Machine I think) on the to do list last time I looked they were working at adding VNC for ways to access the Virtual Machine's console. Bobby Here are the USB settings with a USB trackball keyboard attached Quote Link to comment
theone Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 Another question: How can I use the keyboard and mouse to do the setup ..? I installed the "Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.0.8-71778.vbox-extpack" using: vboxmanage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.0.0-69151.vbox-extpack which should have enabled the console (currently grayed out) - but didn't. Has anyone gotten the console to work? OK solved this: 1. stopped the VM 2. ran VBoxManage modifyvm "VM name" --vrde on 3. restarted the VM now console button is enabled and running. Quote Link to comment
meep Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 Got this working in 5.0b6 thanks to all the tips here & now have SqueezeServer running in TinyXp VM (yeah!). However..... On reboot, neither unraid-web or virtualbox appear to be installed. It's necessary for me to installpkg both (and VB pkg takes some time to install!). Here's my go script: #!/bin/bash # Start the Management Utility logger -t "$0[$$]" "##### STARTING GO script. #####" /usr/local/sbin/emhttp & logger -t "$0[$$]" "##### SETTING SYM LINKS. #####" ln -s /mnt/cache/.Plex/Library /Library ln -s /mnt/cache/.Plex/Library /root/Library logger -t "$0[$$]" "##### LOADING TO CONF. #####" echo "/mnt/cache/.Plex" >> /etc/ld.so.conf ldconfig logger -t "$0[$$]" "##### STARTING PLEX. #####" cd /mnt/cache/.Plex/PlexMediaServer-v0.9.2.8-34480ac #./start.sh >> /Library/Logs/Plex\ Media\ Server.log 2>&1 & ./start.sh cd /boot/packages && find . -name '*.auto_install' -type f -print | sort | xargs -n1 sh -c vboxwebsrv -b -H 127.0.0.1 --logfile /dev/null >/dev/null (please excuse the logger lines, I'm trying to debug) Any advice? Peter Quote Link to comment
theone Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 You can either start up you Virtual Machine using: VBoxManage startvm - http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#vboxmanage-startvm or VBoxHeadless - http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch07.html#vboxheadless (if you are just going to connect to it via remote desktop) or vboxtool - http://vboxtool.sourceforge.net/ but the more important issue is how to get the Virtual Machine turned off "properly"/"safely" once you shut down or restart your unRAID array? There are at least 2 options that need to be looked at: VBoxManage controlvm - http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#vboxmanage-controlvm or (again) vboxtool - http://vboxtool.sourceforge.net/ (which states that it does it automatically). Quote Link to comment
mrklaw Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 Any news on this coming to the package manager? Or is it fairly simple to setup using the scripts? Quote Link to comment
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