VicenteMMOS
New Member
Hello, everyone!
I'm running a Manjaro distro in my machine, and I want to set up an Ubuntu Server with Nextcloud as a local home server, for all our day-to-day file usage. I don't have another computer in which to install Ubuntu Server fully, so I was wondering if I could use a 2TB external hard drive as the container of both Ubuntu and storage and sync unit for all our files. It turns out I can install Ubuntu Server in it, no problem, but I can only boot into a single OS at a time. Meaning, if I boot into Manjaro, then Ubuntu is shut down and I can't seem to boot into it remotely. Ideally, I want to interact with Ubuntu from Manjaro itself, read/write files into the server, through Nextcloud, from different devices in our home. In the Ubuntu server installation, I enabled SSH, I opened the default port for server/client communication (port 22), the OS would successfully return ping requests through the internet... so everything was set up correctly. But when I boot into Manjaro, Ubuntu seems to be shut down, and the terminal requests "ssh <username>@<ip_address>" would just return 'ssh: connect to host <ip_address> port 22: No route to host'. Then, I started thinking, maybe I could set up a VM in Virtualbox in order to access the OS in the external drive... but I'm most likely not configuring it correctly. Then, I thought 'maybe in order to make the VM work in the external disk, I should reformat the disk completely, define the VM and save it in there, and only then have it install Ubuntu Server, inside the VM itself'. So, that's where I am now, I reformatted the disk as ext4, but I'm not managing to create a VM inside of it. I chowned the disk to my user and group, so I have full control over it, but somehow, Virtualbox won't allow me to save the VM inside that disk... I don't know if what I'm trying to do is even feasible at all, or if I'm just doing something wrong. Can anyone help please?
Thank you so much.
I'm running a Manjaro distro in my machine, and I want to set up an Ubuntu Server with Nextcloud as a local home server, for all our day-to-day file usage. I don't have another computer in which to install Ubuntu Server fully, so I was wondering if I could use a 2TB external hard drive as the container of both Ubuntu and storage and sync unit for all our files. It turns out I can install Ubuntu Server in it, no problem, but I can only boot into a single OS at a time. Meaning, if I boot into Manjaro, then Ubuntu is shut down and I can't seem to boot into it remotely. Ideally, I want to interact with Ubuntu from Manjaro itself, read/write files into the server, through Nextcloud, from different devices in our home. In the Ubuntu server installation, I enabled SSH, I opened the default port for server/client communication (port 22), the OS would successfully return ping requests through the internet... so everything was set up correctly. But when I boot into Manjaro, Ubuntu seems to be shut down, and the terminal requests "ssh <username>@<ip_address>" would just return 'ssh: connect to host <ip_address> port 22: No route to host'. Then, I started thinking, maybe I could set up a VM in Virtualbox in order to access the OS in the external drive... but I'm most likely not configuring it correctly. Then, I thought 'maybe in order to make the VM work in the external disk, I should reformat the disk completely, define the VM and save it in there, and only then have it install Ubuntu Server, inside the VM itself'. So, that's where I am now, I reformatted the disk as ext4, but I'm not managing to create a VM inside of it. I chowned the disk to my user and group, so I have full control over it, but somehow, Virtualbox won't allow me to save the VM inside that disk... I don't know if what I'm trying to do is even feasible at all, or if I'm just doing something wrong. Can anyone help please?
Thank you so much.
