VirtualBox image for testing?

[fortytwo]

I'm tinkering around with writing a plugin for unRAID5.0 but don't want to test things out on my live machine, is there an "official" method for getting a test image up in VirtualBox so I can mess around?  I've found a few posts about people who have done it but one of them (http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=20837.0) is a set up to use your actual unRAID image (which I don't want to do) and I can't seem to get the other directions to work (http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5997.0).  For the second method: I create a 4gb hard drive on the virtual machine and then boot into an Ubuntu live CD to format the disk and copy the unRAID files on to it, but I'm unable to boot from that drive.

 

Are there any other methods to get this done?  Or something stupid I'm missing?

 

Thanks.

[Automatic]

I used VMWare before buying a real machine, requires modifying a few documents to get the correct networking settings but works fine.

 

I believe there's a tutorial on the wiki.

[fortytwo]

I used VMWare before buying a real machine, requires modifying a few documents to get the correct networking settings but works fine.

 

I believe there's a tutorial on the wiki.

 

Hmmm, I see somewhere on the wiki that points to this thread: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5061

 

Is that it?  I'll have to take a look at that and perhaps the 'installing unRAID to a hard drive' instructions, maybe that was part of my problem.

[jangjong]

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=9572.msg94243#msg94243

 

I use this. It's 5 beta2, but easily upgradable to the latest rc

[Automatic]

I used VMWare before buying a real machine, requires modifying a few documents to get the correct networking settings but works fine.

 

I believe there's a tutorial on the wiki.

 

Hmmm, I see somewhere on the wiki that points to this thread: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5061

 

Is that it?  I'll have to take a look at that and perhaps the 'installing unRAID to a hard drive' instructions, maybe that was part of my problem.

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5061.msg46711#msg46711

 

That's what I did, basically, here was my order:-

 

A. Download MSDOS (like 10MB)

B. Start a new 10GB HDD

C. Load up MSDOS

D. Fdisk that 10GB HDD

E. Shutdown

F. Mount disk as harddrive on the real OS

G. Set up unraid as if it was a pen-drive (Format fat, call it "unraid", copy files over, run make_bootable.bat)

H. Modify the file that the guy tells you to in the link that I linked

J. Load up unraid

K. Confirm everything works

L. Shutdown

M. Add more HDDs

N. Add to array

O. Tuhduh

 

All HDDs in this case are virtual, no real ones.

[bobbintb]

i recently posted a ready-to-go vm of the latest unraid (well it was the latest when i posted it a few days ago). i did it as a vmware machine however. not sure if vbox can use vmware machines though. it's here if you want to take a look:

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=26634.msg233116

[WeeboTech]

vmware player is free.

Perhaps we could make a vmware player image with all virtual IDE drives.

Maybe the boot drive could be setup in an advanced manner so it could double duty as a boot and cache drive.

Ohhh time to play!

 

[fortytwo]

i recently posted a ready-to-go vm of the latest unraid (well it was the latest when i posted it a few days ago). i did it as a vmware machine however. not sure if vbox can use vmware machines though. it's here if you want to take a look:

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=26634.msg233116

 

Awesome!  Will definitely give this a try

 

vmware player is free.

Perhaps we could make a vmware player image with all virtual IDE drives.

Maybe the boot drive could be setup in an advanced manner so it could double duty as a boot and cache drive.

Ohhh time to play!

 

Yeah, this is kinda what I was thinking were I able to get things working.  I was hoping it'd be alright with Tom to have a default unRAID virtual image for people to use for testing plugins, etc.

[WeeboTech]

i recently posted a ready-to-go vm of the latest unraid (well it was the latest when i posted it a few days ago). i did it as a vmware machine however. not sure if vbox can use vmware machines though. it's here if you want to take a look:

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=26634.msg233116

 

Awesome!  Will definitely give this a try

 

vmware player is free.

Perhaps we could make a vmware player image with all virtual IDE drives.

Maybe the boot drive could be setup in an advanced manner so it could double duty as a boot and cache drive.

Ohhh time to play!

 

Yeah, this is kinda what I was thinking were I able to get things working.  I was hoping it'd be alright with Tom to have a default unRAID virtual image for people to use for testing plugins, etc.

 

It would be cool to have a dual boot disk. once to boot for unraid, the other to boot a slackware dev system.

 

Partition the boot/cache disk with 4 partitions.

 

Part 1 - cache

Part 2 - boot

part 3 - slackware dev.

part 4 - swap

[theone]

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=9572.msg94243#msg94243

 

I use this. It's 5 beta2, but easily upgradable to the latest rc

 

I also started from this and updated it to the latest RCs... as any unraid update

 

[fortytwo]

i recently posted a ready-to-go vm of the latest unraid (well it was the latest when i posted it a few days ago). i did it as a vmware machine however. not sure if vbox can use vmware machines though. it's here if you want to take a look:

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=26634.msg233116

 

What network mode did you use in order to be able to access unRAID's web gui from your host machine?  I was under the impression that 'bridged' should do it, but that doesn't seem to be working.

 

EDIT: Nevermind, changed it to NAT and accessed the IP that showed up from doing an ifconfig and that worked.