on mac virtualbox cannot install FreeNAS

[skarlov]

On mac book pro with virtualbox can not install FreeNAS what can I do?

 

[Dice]

You can get another machine and install FreeNAS.

 

[wblock]

Please post the error message. Otherwise, we are guessing. My guess is that you have not or cannot give the VM enough memory.

 

[skarlov]

here are the logs

 

[Dice]

For starters, you should allocate the minimum required RAM: 8GB

 

[skarlov]

I have only 8G physical on mac and when set in VM base memory for FREENAS to be 8GB it is not allow me to continue...

 

[Dice]

Then you will need to find another machine that meet the minimum hardware recommendations in order to play.

 

[danon_brown78660]

i had Freenas running with 2 GB ram installed with VMware Fusion for testing. I had no issues.

 

[Stux]

Works for me on a Mac with Parallels.

Try better vm software.

 

[danb35]

Try better vm software.

Seriously? FreeNAS will install just fine under VirtualBox on both Linux and Mac (and no doubt on Windows as well, but I haven't tested it there). And no, despite this being necro'd after being dead for a year, you don't need 8 GB RAM assigned to spin up the instance and play around with it. This obviously isn't a setup you'd want to use in production, but in general it should work.