How to Install DSM 6.x on Windows Virtual Box
[windows
dsm
synology
xenology
virtualbox
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Please follow the steps below to install virtual box on your windows machine:
- Install virtualbox (recommended Version 5.2.16). 6.1 doesn’t work for me.
- Create the physic disk for virtual machine. Open powershell in administrator mode
- Use
wmic diskdrive list brief
to list all your harddrive - Put the disk offline
- enable write for raw disk access in vm
Diskpart Select disk 0 ATTRIBUTES DISK CLEAR READONLY
- Use
- Create the raw disk for VM via
“C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe” internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename 0.vmdk -rawdisk \\.\PhysicalDrive0
- Download the loader and convert img to vdi via “C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe” convertfromraw –format VDI .\synoboot.img .\synoboot.vdi
- Download the firmware from Synology. Note newer version, e.g., 6.2.1 and 6.2.2 doesn’t work for me (cannot be found in assistant later)
- Open the virtual box in administrator mode
- Create the VM as following
- Start the VM and find it in the assistant. Use F12 to select the boot drive and for boot options both bare-metal and vm options should work
- Install
Reference
- https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=38914#p175089
- DSM 6.2 Loader - Page 3 - Loaders
- Synology DSM 6.2.x in VirtualBox installieren – Andy’s Blog
- Tutorial: Install 6.x on Oracle Virtualbox (Jun’s loader)
- Using a Physical Hard Drive with a VirtualBox VM
- Virtualbox - DSM 6.2 DS3615Xs - config - DSM 6.x
- Index of /download/DSM/release/6.2/23739
Written on November 20, 2022