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Jan 13, 2012
Installing FreeNAS 0.8 on Oracle VirtualBox 4.1
As part of creating a Windows 2008 R2 cluster there is a requirement to have iSCSI storage or block storage for the Quorum and other shared storage for the cluster. An easy and affordable way to achieve this is FreeNAS. To keep my development cluster all virtual I found the need to create a FreeNAS instance. In this post I will attempt to share how I was able to achieve the desired results. The... read more
Jan 13, 2012
Enable Virtualization on Dell Optiplex 755 to run Oracle VirtualBox 4
Recently I ran into an issue when working on creating a test cluster environment for Windows 2008 R2 with Oracle VirtualBox running on Fedora 16 64 bit on a Dell Optiplex 755. The issue was VirtualBox would complain about VT-x/AMD-V not being enabled and would stop the VM from loading. After doing some digging around found that there is a specific setting in the BIOS to enable what is needed to enable the... read more
Dec 23, 2011