Freenas Virtio Drivers

I had experienced trying to get a Windows VM up and running on my FreeNAS my first time out. I just recently tried installing Linux Mint in a VM and got similar results: VM freezes up during install, VNC device conks out shortly after, VM then stops, UEFI prompt comes up when trying to boot off its zvol. I've seen some chatter about an issue waiting to be fixed upstream in Bhyve. But is it across the board for everyone and every guest OS? What is going on?

Also how does iohyve differ from Bhyve as it is presented in the FreeNAS GUI? Would it help any to try a guide like? Or is that not really applicable in 11.x? Are there any alternative hypervisors that could be run in a jail on FreeNAS in lieu of Bhyve?

Feb 27, 2018 - But doesn't that need drivers installed in the guest OS to work? To be explicit, I downloaded the VirtIO drivers, changed the disk device to.

So far it's proven useless. EDIT: Just tried Ubuntu with pretty much identical results except the VNC device hasn't conked out yet. Yes, they should be in-built for linux, but for Windows you'll need a virtio driver iso from here: Bhyve is no totally broken, bhyve VMs may be stable once installed, but installation is currently hampered by flaky bhyve vnc console/webvnc which is picky about vnc clients, does no support non-US keymaps properly and stalls on installing guest OS whose EFI implementation is not as the byhve UEFI firmware expects. For linux OS installation try hitting enter a few times when using the bhyve vnc console. If things appear dead on 1st post-install boot, wait and you may after a few minutes be dropped to the EFI shell.

Learn how to navigate to the boot64.efi and the required post install EFI fix for some Linux distros. For debian/ubuntu execute as root: grub-install --efi-directory=/boot/efi --boot-directory=/boot --removable.

Official website: Official Forums: Download FreeNAS: Helpful Links • 1. The manual is always a good place to start when you have a question that needs answering. Getting help with your problem is a lot easier when everyone uses the correct terminology.

That way there's less room for misunderstandings. Especially helpful for new and prospective users, Cyberjock's guide contains information that every users should know like the back of their hand. From hardware testing to system reporting, to scheduling those all important scrubs and S.M.A.R.T. DrKK's will guide you through the basics of setting up a FreeNAS server. - A guide for more thorough testing of your disks than that which is contained in DrKK's guide above. - A guide that details what hardware is ideal for FreeNAS use and what hardware is not.

I just did a clean install of 11.2 after running 9.2 for the longest time. Looked like my flash boot drive stopped being able to be mounted with write capabilities, so I figured a fresh start was in order. Saved my config, did the install, uploaded the config, everything is working fine. My original jail didn't get ported (obviously), but I also can't see it in the legacy interface, so I figured I'd virtualize one of my last-standing Windows 10 PC before replacing that. Downloaded the install ISO, set up the virtual machine, extracted the key from the physical machine and installed Everything went pretty ok.

I accidentally rebooted the VM while it was still installing, but other than that it was easy. The only problem is that a few minutes after booting, it locks up entirely. Nothing with unfreeze it except turning it off and on again. I looked for FreeNAS-specific drivers, but couldn't find anything.

Is there something wrong with my setup? I've allocated 8GB RAM, not over committing (host has 32GB available), should be plenty spare CPU to go around. I'm not at the computer right now, but I can get logs or whatever might help with troubleshooting. Thanks for any help! Haha as expected!! I hear you though, I still have my ESXi but I’d love to have my freenas take over some of the windows servers.

Honestly I just want it implemented safely, I hope it’s doable sooner than later but can’t complain if it isn’t. I can’t say I know much on the development side but I’m guessing zfs is delicate and they are taking it with caution (i hope!). Freenas has been good to me over the years, I don’t really think the consumer guys have got a good handle on hypervisors yet either, I tried it with QNAPs “virtualization station” on one of the higher-end quadcore models and performance was still painful, processing on vm would affect speeds to storage as well, I’ve tried the synology once or twice but the lower end models have skinny specs so it was inevitably useless to try anything outside aside from Linux distros.