setsunakawa Posted July 8, 2016 Share #201 Posted July 8, 2016 I reiterate my request for the XPenology team to say something. Their silence is confusing. Are they working on something? Have they left? What's up? They can't work on sources that have not been published Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meimeiriver Posted July 8, 2016 Share #202 Posted July 8, 2016 I reiterate my request for the XPenology team to say something. Their silence is confusing. Are they working on something? Have they left? What's up? They can't work on sources that have not been published Under the GPL 2.0 License, Synology is obligated to release the source. Period. What's the hold-up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbasic1 Posted July 8, 2016 Share #203 Posted July 8, 2016 Steps to install and config VMware player with DSM 6 running in a virtual machine. First all credit goes to member oktisme for providing the patched DSM files that allow this to work. I'm only writing this because the 20 page thread started by oktisme for "Working DSM 6" gets confusing at times, plus a member asked me to provide a tutorial on how I did this. Thus documenting my experience would possibly help other members that wished to venture into it. My configuration is a Windows 7 Professional PC 64-bit with a Intel i5-4590S CPU @ 3.00GHz 4 Core(s) 16G memory, 2 NIC interfaces Realtek PCIe GBE, 1 SSD main drive for Windows and 1 secondary SATA 1TB HDD. External HDD's are two WD My Book 6TB USB 3.0 drives re-formated to wipe away all partitions and data that originally came with the drives. The reason for the re-format is, the drives filesystem is cloned from a master image. This results in both drives having the same volume signature, causing a signature collision that prevents mounting both disk. 1. Install VMware Player. Link: https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/fre ... layer/12_0 2. Download the patched DSM 6 at Link: https://mega.nz/#!Rc9kDC4R!jd3zcwFE1w2x ... eAmqgUFhOk 3. Extract the 7zip DSM 6 to the freshly formatted WD My Book drive, in my case drive G 4. Start VMware Player and select open a virtual machine 5. Now to cinfigure the VM . double click network adapter and change it from NAT to Bridged and select configure adapters button. In my case I selected Realtek PCIe GBE #2 because I have two NIC's. The purpose of Bridged is to allow the VM guest to share the host's network allowing the VM guest to come up in the same subnet so other hosts on your network can find it. I originally tried the NAT option but my VM guest came up in another subnet which as a somewhat newbie to this found difficult at best to come up with the port forwarding and iptables solution to resolve it. . If using USB 3.0 double click USB Controller and change it to USB 3.0. . Now click Hard Disk (SATA) and then add button select Hard disk then SATA for Virtual disk type then Create new virtual disk now specify disk size in GB (in my case I used 2040 for 2TB) with the split virtual disk into multiple files radio button selected then hit next. Repeat to add another drive. 6. Now your done configuring so hit OK to go back then hit "Play virtual machine" and a window will pop up indicating "The virtual machine might have been moved or copied so just hit the "I Copied It" button. 7. Now a list of devices that can be connected to the VM pops up, just hit OK. 8. Now you should see messages with the last being "Booting the Kernal", this is normal. 9. Now start "Synology Assistant" available for the Synology web site under software other. I'm using the windows based install of Synology Assistant as it's easy to use and has the search option, plus allows you to map drives from the diskstation to Windows. You should find the new DiskStation with the assistant so click the server name and the Connect button. 10. Your browser should now be present with the "Create your administrator account" heading, for a DS3615xs type diskstation. Fill in the details for server name, admin ID and passowrd and web assistant find.synology.com preference then hit next. 11. Now you have the Congratulations screen confirming you admin account was created. Hit next 12. Now the selection for DSM update & maintenance for which I only have "Download DSM updates and install manually" checked. Those of us that run XPenology boot loader know why updates should be manual. Hit Next 13. Now the "Your all set" screen comes up so hit next and your DSM 6 VM is now up and running. Additional notes I did install the latest DSM from Synology 6.0.1-7393 update 1 after the first boot to DSM, it did not cause a re-boot, just a refresh and worked just fine. Also when opening Storage manager to configure the raid drives you should see 3 unused drives if you followed the documented steps. So to define the disks to DSM you must first create a raid group (I chose raid group for single volume) and keeping it simple I selected JBOD over the other raid types. Then next creating the volume as type btrfs or ext4 as both worked for me. I then modified my router to reserve a IP address to the connected mac address of the VM and shut it down then powered it back up and now the address is always the same, in my case 192.168.1.80 and can be accessed from other hosts in my network. When you shutdown the diskstation I have observed it also shuts down the VMware Player guest. When you boot up after shutting down it takes some 3 minutes before the diskstation comes ready for use. Again this tutorial is just the step by step process I used for my VM Guest with the hardware I have so it may or may not work for you. A nice side affect is you can remove the VM and start over if you find you want to try some other approach. (been there a few times) Just my 2 cents mrbasic1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sl0n Posted July 9, 2016 Share #204 Posted July 9, 2016 Edit2: I did it, from version 11 to v10, with a 16 Gb drive; it works, I tried this conversion yesterday and it didn't work, because the boot disk was SCSI not IDE I guess. Here is an ovf with only 16 Gb drive, no sound card, 2 Gb ram and 2x2 cpu. https://mega.nz/#!J4YV3ZxY!AGg7p4c_cgM5NRjWhvjHAhajoW9cLWSchZ806WA0PRw As posted above, after import enter vm settings and check the drives, IDE and non-persistent for boot and SATA persistent for the first drive; you can add a new drive (only SATA) now or later, after the config. Use webui to modify the vm settings and add drives, vsphere can't add SATA. Big thanks to oktisme and haydibe Is this OVA files supposed to work on ESXi 5.x? It fails for me with "Invalid configuration for device 6" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koroziv Posted July 9, 2016 Share #205 Posted July 9, 2016 Should work on 5.5 and later but I only tried on 6. Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haydibe Posted July 9, 2016 Share #206 Posted July 9, 2016 The provided ovf and ova files do work flawless on ESXi6 and should work on 5.5 as well - since the used virtual hw version is 10. The vm MUST remain on hw version 10! If the vm gets updated to version 11, you end up in an installation loop. It doesn't add up why changing the hw versionen messes up everything, but it does! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Backslash Posted July 9, 2016 Share #207 Posted July 9, 2016 Has anyone got external USB HDD's attached to their DSM6 on ESXi? I can't seem to get mine to mount. I've added the USB device into the VM settings but it doesn't mount in the DSM interface. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troelsdk Posted July 9, 2016 Share #208 Posted July 9, 2016 You'll need the - not yet released - kernel sources in order to compile new drivers. @oktisme: did dsm6 come with precompile intel E1000e drivers? Hi Haydibe what did you do to get the VM online ? I downloaded the OVF and importet to ESXI 6.0 but I cant resolve it through Syno assistant I have E1000e ass well.. if I make a VM with normal Ubuntu, it goes online fine.. If I boot the the patched .ISO (bootloader XPEnoboot_DS3615xs_5.2-5644.5) I can find it through Assistant ass well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haydibe Posted July 10, 2016 Share #209 Posted July 10, 2016 You'll need the - not yet released - kernel sources in order to compile new drivers. @oktisme: did dsm6 come with precompile intel E1000e drivers? Hi Haydibe what did you do to get the VM online ? I downloaded the OVF and importet to ESXI 6.0 but I cant resolve it through Syno assistant I have E1000e ass well.. if I make a VM with normal Ubuntu, it goes online fine.. If I boot the the patched .ISO (bootloader XPEnoboot_DS3615xs_5.2-5644.5) I can find it through Assistant ass well The only situation i can think of where your machine is not detectable by synoassist/findsyno, is when the network configuration is messed up.. Since you pointed out that your are allready using a E1000e vNic, following things come to mind: - vNic is not connected to a bridged vSwitch - bridget network does not run a dhcp server - the mtu size of your network is something different than 1500 I can't imagine any other scenario that causes a boot from the boot cd/vmdk to not appear in synoassist/findsyno. Btw. which ESXi verison are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umaar Posted July 10, 2016 Share #210 Posted July 10, 2016 Hallo and thank you for the great work. Synology DS3615xs seems to work, but i need RS3411XS. Could someone patch the pat file and the iso? Or maybe describe how it has to be done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawie Posted July 11, 2016 Share #211 Posted July 11, 2016 Did anybody try it with Broadcom BCM5723 NIC (HP N54L Integrated)? is it official supported w/o Extra drivers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawie Posted July 11, 2016 Share #212 Posted July 11, 2016 Here are the file if you want to install it yourself. Here are some things to note about the configuration of the VM before installing: - It supports only a handful of NICs. On Workstation I configure it to use the e1000e driver, plain e1000 doesn't work. - It only sees SATA disks. - If you want console access (I don't know how that would work on ESXi though) you need to add a serial port. - You need 2 SATA HDs: one to install Synology on and one to use as storage. How to install: 1 - Boot with the Install option 2 - Go to http://find.synology.com 3 - Upload the .pat file 4 - Reboot with the Run option. You only boot with Install once 5 - Go to http://find.synology.com and configure 6 - Done! The reason the VM I posted uses a Boot HD is because DSM resets the BIOS and you have to manually (ESCAPE during boot) tell it to boot via ISO. I don't know how this will play out on ESXi. DSM_DS3615xs_7393.iso DSM_DS3615xs_7393.pat thx @oktisme, everything works! Would u please release one usb bootable img version? it's very important to us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaggerdude Posted July 11, 2016 Share #213 Posted July 11, 2016 Has anyone been able to create a SHR volume with this?I don't see the option. I'm forced to create a raid group and cannot just create Volumes from the start. Is this normal? I was able to create the SHR using PCIe passthrough using 3-3TB SATA drives and 2 64 GB SSD drives I used for cache. Can I ask what sata card you have for PCIe pass through? Also, did you have to create a RAID group first before creating the Volume? It seems I have to create a raid group and then can create a volume from there. But there is no SHR option. Sent from my SM-G928I using Tapatalk I just used a cheap 4-port marvell card. No I did not have to create a RAID group. The volume manager wizard created the SHR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaggerdude Posted July 11, 2016 Share #214 Posted July 11, 2016 I was able to create the SHR using PCIe passthrough using 3-3TB SATA drives and 2 64 GB SSD drives I used for cache. Do you have better performance with your SSD cache ? Does it work well ? Last question, do you use two identical SSD ? Thank you ! The synch between servers goes much faster it seems. And on-the-fly conversion of media files definitely faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Backslash Posted July 11, 2016 Share #215 Posted July 11, 2016 Has anyone been able to create a SHR volume with this?I don't see the option. I'm forced to create a raid group and cannot just create Volumes from the start. Is this normal? I was able to create the SHR using PCIe passthrough using 3-3TB SATA drives and 2 64 GB SSD drives I used for cache. Can I ask what sata card you have for PCIe pass through? Also, did you have to create a RAID group first before creating the Volume? It seems I have to create a raid group and then can create a volume from there. But there is no SHR option. Sent from my SM-G928I using Tapatalk I just used a cheap 4-port marvell card. No I did not have to create a RAID group. The volume manager wizard created the SHR. Can you link me the card? All I can find are over $100. Sent from my SM-G928I using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sl0n Posted July 11, 2016 Share #216 Posted July 11, 2016 Here are the file if you want to install it yourself. Here are some things to note about the configuration of the VM before installing: - It supports only a handful of NICs. On Workstation I configure it to use the e1000e driver, plain e1000 doesn't work. - It only sees SATA disks. - If you want console access (I don't know how that would work on ESXi though) you need to add a serial port. - You need 2 SATA HDs: one to install Synology on and one to use as storage. How to install: 1 - Boot with the Install option 2 - Go to http://find.synology.com 3 - Upload the .pat file 4 - Reboot with the Run option. You only boot with Install once 5 - Go to http://find.synology.com and configure 6 - Done! The reason the VM I posted uses a Boot HD is because DSM resets the BIOS and you have to manually (ESCAPE during boot) tell it to boot via ISO. I don't know how this will play out on ESXi. DSM_DS3615xs_7393.iso DSM_DS3615xs_7393.pat I managed to run these files on ESXi 5.5 + upgraded it to the latest / greatest DSM version. Some notes: - E1000 works as a nerwork adapter - always boot from ISO file and pick "Install" menu item, "Run" item doesn't bring the VM into proper state Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haydibe Posted July 12, 2016 Share #217 Posted July 12, 2016 Here are the file if you want to install it yourself. Here are some things to note about the configuration of the VM before installing: - It supports only a handful of NICs. On Workstation I configure it to use the e1000e driver, plain e1000 doesn't work. - It only sees SATA disks. - If you want console access (I don't know how that would work on ESXi though) you need to add a serial port. - You need 2 SATA HDs: one to install Synology on and one to use as storage. How to install: 1 - Boot with the Install option 2 - Go to http://find.synology.com 3 - Upload the .pat file 4 - Reboot with the Run option. You only boot with Install once 5 - Go to http://find.synology.com and configure 6 - Done! The reason the VM I posted uses a Boot HD is because DSM resets the BIOS and you have to manually (ESCAPE during boot) tell it to boot via ISO. I don't know how this will play out on ESXi. DSM_DS3615xs_7393.iso DSM_DS3615xs_7393.pat I managed to run these files on ESXi 5.5 + upgraded it to the latest / greatest DSM version. Some notes: - E1000 works as a nerwork adapter - always boot from ISO file and pick "Install" menu item, "Run" item doesn't bring the VM into proper state And btrfs is supported and your array is not marked as broken from the beginning? You would be the first one that succeeds with this approach... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manfriday Posted July 12, 2016 Share #218 Posted July 12, 2016 thanks to those folks who provided input. I have DSM6 running as a VM guest under workstation12. the boot process fooled me for a minute, I was expecting to see the usual msg stream that I see on a baremetal DSM startup. Boots in a couple of secs with miniml output, then used Syno Assistant to find server. Would like to change serial number as it matches one I already have. Added 2 Virt disks of 250GB and created RAID (JBOD) array. Considered a build of either ESXi or small Linux distro as host OS with VM Workstation but the disk limits suggest this wont work for me limit being Virtual disk size 2TB minus 512 bytes. Is this one disk or total disks to equal 2TB. Any VM guru input appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manowar123 Posted July 12, 2016 Share #219 Posted July 12, 2016 Backslash this one is very popular in Russia, you can check it here. http://ali.pub/p7o4q Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nasir32 Posted July 13, 2016 Share #220 Posted July 13, 2016 Thanks for sharing your experience guys. I was able install DSM 6 and all the latest update on my ASUSTOR NAS under VirtualBox. I've assigned 2GB ram and 2 cores for this VM from my 8GB Quad core system Just followed instructions from the above mentioned post. I installed online version rather than using provided PAT file. Network card I used is Intel PRO 1000 (Bridge) Only thing that i would like to mention It only works under INSTALL, couldn't make it work under RUN Installed surveillance package and using my cameras, everything is running great Before this I've been using DSM 5.2.5644 for long time with no issue, just turned that VM off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
substorm Posted July 13, 2016 Share #221 Posted July 13, 2016 Just to be on the same page, is everything working with oktisme's instructions including btrfs raid, all packages and dsm updates? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Ferlow Posted July 13, 2016 Share #222 Posted July 13, 2016 Make iso usb flash bootable and DSM 6 fine started on GA-H61M-S2PV motherboard... but i cant say that it,s working stable right now) what difference with boot option RUn and Install - because it dont working on run after install, but work on "install" boot option installing by internet explorer and finding synology by synology assistant. find.synology dont see new installation... Installation in virtualbox is working too... brtfs - dont working... only ext4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haydibe Posted July 13, 2016 Share #223 Posted July 13, 2016 Make iso usb flash bootable and DSM 6 fine started on GA-H61M-S2PV motherboard...but i cant say that it,s working stable right now) what difference with boot option RUn and Install - because it dont working on run after install, but work on "install" boot option installing by internet explorer and finding synology by synology assistant. find.synology dont see new installation... Installation in virtualbox is working too... brtfs - dont working... only ext4 Oktisme specificly created this for vmWare Workstation/Player 12 (hw version 12). We managed to convert it to an ESXi 5.5 compatible format (hw version 10) , which actualls works fine in ESXi6.0 (must stay at hw version 10). if synofind is not finding dsm6 or the installer is asking for the pat file: something went wrong! synofind should start at setting up the admin account. It does not support VirtualBox, Hyper-V or baremetal system. No network card will be found. The install mode does run a slightly modified XPE, which in fact does not work with BRTFS - it's not ment to be used like that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iceget Posted July 14, 2016 Share #224 Posted July 14, 2016 Hey fine work! I only had a question: do you have a *.IMG (from the *.ISO) for boot from regular hardware without an DVD-ROM Device? Thanks many greets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Ferlow Posted July 14, 2016 Share #225 Posted July 14, 2016 It does not support VirtualBox, Hyper-V or baremetal system. No network card will be found. - What does not support virtualbox? https://yadi.sk/i/bcgMvmLJtHcAn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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