Quote Originally Posted by brutal View Post
I don't envy you, doesn't sound like fun.

I am far from a nix guy myself, but I did have a little fun getting a bunch of oddball products up and running in a CentOS VM on my work laptop last year.

I needed to run an open source storage monitor product that uses lots of oddball packages, and to get to the storage, Cisco Anyconnect VPN via commandline. fun fun fun.
This is just for "fun" on my personal NAS. I want to be able to host a few things, and as such am setting up the web server on the one box that is ALWAYS running at my house. I could just cheat and use my router, since it has DDNS implemented by ASUS, and has the ability to serve from a usb hard drive plugged in. I'd rather it be done on my NAS for space (11.7TB usable, fully backed up), but if this doesn't start to cooperate, I might just go with the router option.

I know VM is useful, crap, I use them all the time for instances of polling engines, but I really dislike having to set them up all the time. I'd rather fight with the FreeNas implementation of Linux than a VM right now.