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Get: VirtualBox-3.1.6-59338-SunOS.tar.gz
Get: VBoz.zip

Unzip and RENAME python-lib-3.1.8.tar.bz2 TO python-lib.tar.bz2

Put everything in the same dir.

VirtualBox-3.1.6-59338-SunOS.tar.gz
solaris-lib.tar.bz2
sunwvbox-1.0-20100217.diff.gz
python-lib.tar.bz2

And now:

# add required packages
aptitude install alien g11n-minimal-uiu8 lib64gcc1 lib64stdc++6 lib64z1 libfontconfig1 libfreetype6 libgcc1 libice6 libpng12-0 libsm6 libstdc++6 libxau6 libxdmcp6 libxmuu1 libxrender1 python python-dev sunwcsl sunwcslr sunwlibm zlib1g

# untar & prepare VirtualBox
tar -xzf VirtualBox-3.1.6-59338-SunOS.tar.gz
alien -d -s -c --reloc_root=/ VirtualBox-3.1.6-SunOS-r59338.pkg

# patch it
gzip -d -c sunwvbox-1.0-20100217.diff.gz | patch -p0

# build it
cd sunwvbox-1.0
./debian/rules binary

# install the .deb package
cd ..
dpkg -i sunwvbox_1.0-1_solaris-i386.deb

That’s it! Many thanks to Ernst Gill!

SOURCES:
http://www.nexenta.org/boards/1/topics/142

# change VirtualBox disk and machine default location
VBoxManage setproperty hdfolder /volumes/data/vbox
VBoxManage setproperty machinefolder /volumes/data/vbox

# create a VM
VBoxManage createvm --name "U10.4-base" --ostype Ubuntu --register
# add some ram, network card, DVD-ROM
VBoxManage modifyvm "U10.4-base" --memory 128 --acpi on --boot1 dvd --nic1 bridged
# create a HDD
VBoxManage createhd --filename U10.4-base.vdi --size 10000 --register

# attach storage controllers to it
VBoxManage storagectl "U10.4-base" --name "IDE Controller" --add ide
VBoxManage storageattach "U10.4-base" --storagectl "IDE Controller" --port 1 --device 0 --type dvddrive --medium none

# remove .iso
VBoxManage closemedium dvd /volumes/data/exchange/mini-ubuntu-10.04-server-i386.iso

# start VM
VBoxHeadless --startvm "U10.4-base"

# stop VM (requires package acpid)
VBoxManage controlvm "U10.4-base" acpipowerbutton

# view VM information
VBoxManage showvminfo "U10.4-base"

Install required packages

aptitude install libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev intltool

Install libevent

wget http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent-1.4.13-stable.tar.gz
tar -xzf libevent-1.4.13-stable.tar.gz
cd libevent-1.4.13-stable
./configure
make && make install

Install Transmission

wget http://mirrors.m0k.org/transmission/files/transmission-2.01.tar.bz2
tar -xjf transmission-2.01.tar.bz2
cd transmission-2.01
./configure LIBEVENT_LIBS="-L/usr/local/lib -levent"
make && make install

1. Edit /etc/default/grub and add:
   GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="usbcore.autosuspend=-1"
2. Run update-grub
3. Edit /etc/crontab add:
   @reboot root echo -n USB0 > /proc/acpi/wakeup
4. Plug the USB Receiver into the lowest port under the PS/2 connector
5. Reboot

I am using Ubuntu 9.10 and XBMC 9.11.

SOURCE: http://www.minimyth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2524

Here’s a procedure I found on taesch.com to ping a Ubuntu machine by the hostname from a Windows PC:

1. sudo vi /etc/nsswitch.conf
   hosts: files wins dns
2. sudo aptitude install winbind
3. sudo aptitude install samba

SOURCE: http://taesch.com/my-digital-life/cant-ping-ubuntu-hostname-from-windows-xp-setup-winbind

The Acer EasyStore H340 comes with 1 x 1TB HDD and room for three more drives (SATA-II). A low power Atom 230, 2 GB of Ram and an internal 256M flash storage to install FreeNAS 64 bits. This comes in a nice 7.9″ (200mm) W x 7.1″ (180mm) D x 8.3″ (212mm) H casing.

I am curious to see if the Atom 230 is enough horsepower for ZFS, anybody tried it?

SOURCE: HappyBison.com

Using FreeNAS 0.7 Khasadar (revision 4919) with CIFS/SMB Authentication Anonymous, I changed the Guest account for but it is not actually applying it to the configuration, it is a trivial bug and here’s a small dirty workaround.

1 – Create an excutable file containing this:

#!/bin/sh

# find and replace 'ftp' by 'transmission'
sed -i. 's/ftp/transmission/g' /etc/rc.d/samba

# restart samba to use the new config
/etc/rc.d/samba restart

2 – Go in System|Advanced|Command scripts and add an entry for your script in “PostInit”

For those who are interested, I am doing this because my network is not accessible from the outside and I didn’t want to bother with user privileges. I am using my FreeNAS box to share media files downloaded using Transmission and I wanted everybody to be able to access/modify/delete them, so I change the guest account to be “transmission” :)

I wrote this script because I never found a Transmission remote GUI that permits to start downloading a torrent in a specific directory.

I’m writing a note to myself as I don’t have a UPS yet :)

The Port value can be set to “auto” as metionned here: http://jonathanbrown.me/my-freenas-project-part-5-the-config

Found another rerefence that confirms this:
- For newhidups: “auto” or whatever value as newhidups automagically probe for USB UPS.

SOURCE: http://people.freebsd.org/~thierry/nut_FreeBSD_HowTo.txt

Given that I spent time and money on my FeeNAS node, I want to maximize its usage, so when a friend told me that I can use PXE and NFS to boot a diskless computer from the network, I thought it was the perfect opportunity to try somehing new and activate some more services under FreeNAS!