Thank you so much @rgarjr , that was so much more than I could hope for Much appreciated ... I'll get working on right away
Got a bit further already .. now it's complaining about memory (allocated 8GB to host and 4GB to guest); I'll try and increase the availably memory on my Xpenology host.
I am a bit worried though that it might be due to the host running DSM 6.1.6-15266 Update 1.
I am working on it