The best progress is that my QNAP is now working, fixed by a firmware upgrade at QNAP’s behest. This surprised me as I was convinced the problem was in MacOS, as I believe was everyone else. It is now running on 3.3.1\u00a0Build 0720T.<\/p>\n
The upgrade itself was a bit hairy. The first time it bombed out with an error at 28%. The second time it got “stuck” at 10% for several minutes, then proceeded into the 20s and announced it was finished. The subsequent reboot took ages to finish and I was beginning to think it was broken. A reminder that patience is required in this game. Anyway, Time Machine is now backing up to it which is good.<\/p>\n
Also managed to resurrect my Centos build on my lab machine. It’s actually a Xen build with Centos as Dom-0. For some reason I described it before as Centos with KVM. This is what happens, I reckon if you work too late. Of course, that means I still have to try the KVM hypervisor, which people have been telling me is the more popular of the two.<\/p>\n
At least that’s two things off the immediate list so I can get back to concentrating (I use the term loosely) on seeing if I can get a VMFS datastore installed on a USB key to use with ESXi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The best progress is that my QNAP is now working, fixed by a firmware upgrade at QNAP’s behest. This surprised me as I was convinced the problem was in MacOS, as I believe was everyone else. It is now running … Continue reading