Hey all, I recently built my first small server at home to learn and experiment on. It is currently running Ubuntu Server 12.04 headless. Ubuntu and my Freenas VM are installed on a 120gb SSD. I want to add three 1tb SATA HDDs but at the moment have only installed one. I haven't added it to the Ubuntu install or formatted it, it is just a bare drive at the moment. I have googled alot but I can't seem to figure out how to add this in a way that it will be accessible to the Freenas VM. When I log in to Freenas through the web gui and view disks I see nothing.

Apr 12, 2017  This video is about installing a Windows 10 Virtual Machine on FreeNAS Corral, and installing windows drivers for VIRTIO NIC INTERFACE. You can download the Windows. May 29, 2015  From the FreeNAS side, I added a new virtio interface attached to vmbr1, and within FreeNAS, gave it IP 172.16.1.2. Some pics to illustrate: Proxmox Network Config: FreeNAS VM Config: Proxmox Storage View w/ NFS shares mounted: FreeNAS Disk View: Finishing Thoughts. FreeNAS is a great ZFS solution for home use.

Can someone help with steps that I can apply to this and the other two 1tb drives I will add? To be clear, I want these drives to be owned/managed by the Freenas VM, all of the Ubuntu server stuff and any VMs including the freenas one will be on the 120gb SSD. I set up the VM using virt-manager.

I use virsh to start/stop it (and now autostart it). I am pretty much a noob but I have spent alot of time googling and reading. Test plan forsunok siemens system. Just can't quite seem to find anything on this. If you're feeding it the whole disk, raw is the storage format. Probably you want SATA or SCSI as the type - I don't *think* FreeNAS is going to have built-in VirtIO drivers.

(If it did, then you'd want VirtIO. If you're not really following here, what you're doing is presenting a virtual 'disk' to your FreeNAS guest complete with 'hardware' interface and all - and you would be, even if you were in reality only handling it a file on your drive to store that 'disk' in. VirtIO is more efficient than emulating IDE or SATA hardware, but AFAIK you won't have a VirtIO driver under FreeBSD, which FreeNAS is based on, so you should probably just go SATA or SCSI. I'd recommend SCSI, if it's available.).

I am currently running FreeNAS as a VirtualBox guest under linux (openSUSE 12.2 x64). It all works correctly, but overall performance is somewhat below par. I understand that VirtualBox does not provide Guest Additions for freeBSD guests, but the kvm virtio framework is available from I tested virtio-net on a nas4free testbed (freeBSD 9.1) and it seems to be working fine. Has anyone tried installing it on FreeNAS 8.3.x and if so, how did you do it (it being nanoBSD based)? I would imagine running FreeNAS as a VM guest under a Linux host is quite a common scenario, so maximising its efficiency in this case should be a reasonable aspiration. Is there any likelihood that the virtio drivers would be included by default in upcoming versions?

Any thoughts? Drommy PS: To avoid any flames on running FreeNAS as a VM guest rather than host, my linux workstation runs heavy BOINC CPU and GPU workloads on a 24/7 basis, while FreeNAS provides backup and media services to the network on dedicated drives.

It's bullet-proof, just somewhat slow at time machine backups. I am fighting this at the moment aswell.

Not sure if this has been fixed. NAS4Free does work with virtio as well on a KVM environment. FreeNAS 8.3.1 also work with virtio as long as you do not use the virtio network (vtnet) device. Which is a pity as this is where I hope to see a performance increase.

The drives have direct access to hardware as I use the Vt-d extension, therefore virtio for the data storage play no part. I just stumble on a TRAC ticket to FreeNAS 8.3.1 that may address this issue. The virtio can be set with the FreeNAS web gui. I had to manually fiddle with the network device on the KVM side to make it work.