QuTS hero is the operating system for high-end and enterprise QNAP NAS models. WIth Linux and ext4, QTS enables reliable storage for everyone with versatile value-added features and apps, such as snapshots, Plex media servers, and easy access of your personal cloud. Consider what I said before about the keyboard layout: here you have to use the same layout you have defined in Virtualization Station not to incur in silly problems with your keyboard.QTS is the operating system for entry- and mid-level QNAP NAS. The first choice you will have to make is about the language and the locale that the OS will use.
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This will likely open a new tab in your browser asking you to type the password you set up for VNC connections. Step 4: install the OSīoot up the VM and log into the remote console by clicking on the window showing your the preview of the VM screen. This is a good help when you plan to use the VM for a permanent service (like a mail server or a video chat service) with practically no disadvantages. You can choose to have your VM to start automatically when you fire up your NAS (or when you reboot it). I just make a little note on the nice auto start function of Virtualization Station. There are also other settings that have quite straightforward meaning so there is little sense in entering into many details here. leave not flagged the option right above the password field). Make also sure not to restrict the VNC access after having set up its password (i.e.
If you know how to use SPICE you can also enable this feature as well, but I find ssh connections far more handy than using a client. Here you can also define the VNC password to later connect to the remote desktop. I have never tried using a standard English keyboard, but for sure the french and Italian ones fail to be mapped in CentOS if you let this setting to simply English. A mac address and IP should appear, login via browser Latest Quts MODELTYPE'QY380. mycreateqnapboot It should connect and download, let it all complete Reboot from usb and let it do its thing, does take a while. I have experienced that having two different layouts in these two layers bring to mismatching mappings of non standard keyboards. /mycreateqnapboot i to edit Change Model, Patched, download to reflect options below, quts or hero Esc:wq to save sudo. This has to be equal to the one you will define during the installation of the OS you are intending to put on the virtual machine. In Console operation section you will find some important options that cab create troubles if not correctly defined. So, if you need to have a precise idea of when your data is really on the disk better you turn this feature off as well. The major cons are related to the possibility to have the virtual machine backing up old data if the cache is not fully flushed into the virtual drive first. Virtualization station allows our virtual machine to make use of several writing methods to the virtual drive, cashing data comprised.Ĭashing is a nice thing to speed up input output but it also has drawbacks so I normally turn caching off. I would leave iSCSI targets apart if I were in your boots, but you may consider the advantage of using it if you have more than one NAS.
I am still considering that the intended usage of your virtual machine is somehow similar to the ones described in this website so that you are likely at home where you have full control of all your devices and somehow a limited environment to take care about. So I put everything in one single disk and then mount other partitions as nfs or samba shares at boot time.
My strategy is the more straightforward: keeping things simple is the easiest way to save time later.
Given for granted that you have one in mind, you may prefer to separate your data from your core VM software (for example giving the home folder a separate hdd file, or let the /var/spool/ folder reside on a separate iSCSI target of you are intended to use Kolab mail server as supposed here above). This argument is also closely related to the backup strategy that you are intending to put in place. With regard to the topic related to storage, we could open a never ending discussion on what is the best method to exchange information between machines, because everybody definitively needs to exchange data.