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Great Article! I was looking for a way to set this up and you provided great instructions. I just installed Windows 7 Home Premium this way to my Synology DS110j. I’m using a Mac with Lion 10.7.2 and the terminal worked fine to run the commands. I didn’t have to use cd at all it worked fine without. I did notice in my case that I had to put quotes ” ” around the name of the VM i.e. “ScaryExample” and it threw up an error about line 7 which is the type of medium. I just chose –mtype normal and it worked just fine. Other than those little details it was spot on. Thanks!
Excellent article. Thank you!
I use a Synology Disk Station as my iSCSI target, and I found that I need to add the –lun 1 argument, or else Virtual Box 4.1.20 doesn't read the LUN size correctly (it shows up as 32KB, and VirtualBox refuses to start, complaining with VERR_VD_IMAGE_READ_ONLY)
This could be due to my previous experimenting with multiple LUNs on the same target, then removing the first LUN.
Thanks for this clear article, saved me a lot of reading through the docs and worked without any trouble, even over an internet-connection. Although it was to slow for an Ubuntu install.
Used it with Virtualbox and a Synology DS412+
I also have a QNAP – do you know if this iSCSI technique can be used to connect a volume of my NAS box as a backup device for the new Windows Server Backup?
As you may know, Windows Server 2008 R2 Backup will not use standard network share locations (Mapped drives nor UNC paths) to do incrememntal backups. It only works if the drive is actually connected to the box. This is annoying for me as i don't want to use fast, expensive SAN storage for backups. For that i'd really rather use my cheap (relatively!) NAS box.
Thanks for the great article!
Charlie
Thanks a lot for this How-To! Just got my QNAP TS-219P II and set up the iSCSI drive. It's one of the main reasons i got that specific NAS.
I tried this on my synology 413 and get the following error (even after reboot) "Runtime error opening /home/…..vbox for reading: -38 (Access Denied)" I followed the steps and didn't setup a Chap password on the NAS. One issue I did notice was even before I rebooted and got this message I saw that in the section "if all goes well you will see “iSCSI disk created. UUID: 1f8f3183-0f1a-4079-866f-79d6db1e9230″. I got to that point and it showed the same thing. However, the next step of going in the Virtualbox settings and checking didn't show that it took (even after closing down and/or rebooting).
Does anybody have any suggestions as to what may be going on and a solution?
Thanks,
Sparky