I've had no problems setting up Xpenology on a VMware Fusion VM using a little 8GB thumb drive, although making sure the drive is connected from the host before booting is kinda finicky....and even when I download the MBR version of Jun's 1.02b boot loader, it doesn't seem to boot unless the VM is in UEFI mode - that's worrying...I don't think the N7700PRO will have a UEFI option in BIOS.
At any rate, I have a fully-loaded Thecus N7700PRO (the older 32-bit OS version) with Core Duo processor, 4 GB RAM (3 usable) and 7x 2 TB Seagate HDD. I've ordered a cheap video card to slap in the PCIe slot that normally holds the optional 10 Gb Ethernet card. Also, if this pans out, I have a LSI 9201-16e card that I could throw in that same slot to give me more SATA ports (currently it's in my ESXi box passed through to a Napp-IT VM that's currently giving me NFS storage for the VMs.) I enjoyed setting that up, but I'd like to get the 16GB RAM allocated to that VM back for other purposes so moving the VMs back to external storage sounds like my best bet.
Has anyone used the N7700PRO for Xpenology? Some googling leads me to think that I can simply pull the DOMs out and it will automagically boot from USB...true?
Has anyone used the LSI9201 with Xpenology?
I'll undoubtedly have more questions as I go along, but any pointers to good information would be appreciated. I've spent most of today googling this and I don't think I'm much farther ahead than when I started.
Thanks in advance,