FreeNAS 11 Nightlies? Got me curious after the Corral fiasco

[notjoe]

Oh my. What is this?? FreeNAS 11 Nightlies?

 

[Osiris]

Ok guys, I'm testing this, you teases!

 

[gpsguy]

Yes, here's a thread on the subject: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/freenas-11-0.53743/#post-371806

 

[maydo]

It is version 9.10.xx just renamed to FreeNAS 11.

Good decision btw.

 

[Osiris]

 

[Ericloewe]

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Yes, that's been known for ages.

 

[notjoe]

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cant really do much with it, yet.

 

[SweetAndLow]

I got a centos vm deployed and connected over vnc so it's pretty close to functional.

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[notjoe]

I got a centos vm deployed and connected over vnc so it's pretty close to functional.

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You got a howto on that?

 

[SweetAndLow]

It was really easy.

Create a zvol.
Download iso of choice to FreeNAS.
Add zvol as disk storage to vm
Create vm selecting the iso
Connect to IP and port using a vnc client.


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[Osiris]

I'm trying to hammer a W10 console inthere, thusfar without success.
Trying daily ... coz I have no life.

 

[notjoe]

Looking good so far....with the exception of there being no clear way to be able to auto-start these VMs

 

[Jailer]

It was really easy.

Create a zvol.

So a separate volume, not dataset, is needed to make this work?

 

[SweetAndLow]

So a separate volume, not dataset, is needed to make this work?

Yes, have you tried yet? The VM GUI asks you for a zvol if you don't give it one it doesn't work.

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[Jailer]

I figured that's what it was when I tried it briefly, I just wanted to make sure I was thinking correctly.

 

[Ziggy]

Sound easy but .. where do you download to the iso to and from where/which part of the menu do you select the iso?

 

[William Grzybowski]

Sound easy but .. where do you download to the iso to and from where/which part of the menu do you select the iso?

If you click on the VM there will be a "Devices" button at the bottom. From there you can add other devices, including a CDROM (iso).

 

[notjoe]

Any suggestions on how to make the VMs auto start?

 

[William Grzybowski]

Any suggestions on how to make the VMs auto start?

Not really, there is a feature request to make it work but meanwhile you could add a Init script with the following shell command:

midclt call vm.query | jq '.[].id' | while read r; do midclt call vm.start $r; done;

 

[notjoe]

Problem with that is that when i reboot the VM it never starts back up either.