Migrate Windows Virtual Machine from VirtualBox to QEMU/QNAP Virtualization Station

I want to move my Windows XP VM (Virtual Machine) which runs on VirtualBox on OSX to QNAP Virtualization Station running on QNAP TS-251A. The latter is a variant of QEMU. With the new architecture, I may use Windows XP from Chromebox. There is no need to have a dedicated Windows machine.

Detail Explain of QNAP Malware Remover 2.1.x

In recently issue mentioned in Check And Solve If Your QNAP NAS Has been Injected a CPUMiner Program, QNAP quickly release Malware Remover 2.1.0 to help. Let’s take a look at this program and go detail.

Check And Solve If Your QNAP NAS Has been Injected a CPUMiner Program

It’s been discussed from 2017/4/18 on disk_manage.cgi hogging CPU usage and 2017/4/28 on  Mobil01: QTS 4.3.3 正式版問題討論區 #86 that there is a mining program using your NAS to work for mineXMR.com

I have check my TS-119P II (QTS 4.3.3) and TS-251A (QTS 4.2.2), none of them have this program. Here is my summary of this issue from internet:

Files Contain Windows Invalid Characters Transferred from QNAP to Asustor Using rsync

I want to copy files from QNAP TS-119P II to Asustor AS-5102T directly. There are many solutions: including ftp, rsync, or mount a shared folder.In my case, rsync is the easiest solution.

TS-119P II runs QTS 4.3.3 while AS-5102T is ADM 2.7.1. Details steps might be different if you are using different firmware versions.

I will also talk about invalid characters in names and how ADM handle it. A must read for non-Windows users.

QNAP TS-119PII with Different Wireless Device on Mac OSX File Transfer Performance Report

I did this test because uploading files to NAS is incredible slow today. The only different is my new WF2190 last week. I spends hours to do a full check of my NAS and eventually find out it is related to driver. I didn’t uninstall D-Link DWA-171 rev A1‘s Realtek driver before installing netis WF2190. During the test, I also learned the difference of my WiFi devices.

Change Default Password for MySQL/MariaDB and phpMyAdmin on NAS

I always need to look for the default password for MariaDB and phpMyAdmin in my NAS. There is no hint at all. Some even change the rules after upgrade. Therefore, I write a note here and share to save your time. This page would be continuously maintained.

QNAP TS-253 Pro with Mac OSX File Transfer Performance Report

We have seen QTS 4.2.1 Build 0217 for TS-119PII but QTS 4.1.3 Build 20150313 for QNAP TS-253 Pro is different. The later support smb 3.0 in [Control Panel] → [Network Services] → [Win/Mac/NFS] → [Microsoft Networking] Tab → [Advanced Options] dialog] → [Highest SMB version]. Let’s see if it is compatible with OSX and faster.

QNAP TS-251 with Mac OSX File Transfer Performance Report

We have seen QTS 4.2.1 Build 0217 for TS-119PII but QTS 4.1.3 Build 20150313 for QNAP TS-251 is different. The later support smb 3.0 in [Control Panel] → [Network Services] → [Win/Mac/NFS] → [Microsoft Networking] Tab → [Advanced Options] dialog] → [Highest SMB version]. Let’s see if it is compatible with OSX and faster.

Thecus W5000 and QNAP TS-119PII with Mac OSX Wireless File Transfer Performance Report

Recently, I bought a Asus RT-AC51U for Android USB tethering and 5GHz features. I also bough some new wireless USB device. Two D-Link DWA-171 A1 are for Mac mini and NAS. One D-Link DWA-131 E1 is for Lenovo C440.

Because DWA-171 A1 is compatible with OSX, Windows Server 2012 R2, and QTS but DWA-131 E1 isn’t for QTS, I decide to test wireless transfer between Mac mini and two NAS.

QNAP TS-119PII with Mac OSX File Transfer Performance Report

After moving from Edge 72z running OpenSuSE to Mac mini (Late 2012) with OSX, I have a chance to compare NAS with different clients. It is interested to know which one is faster.