DVD Drive PassThrough to VM

[The Torrie]

HI Team,

I'm wanting to switch from my Windows 10 based home server back to FreeNAS 11 but am having 1 issue that could be a dealbreaker.

is there a way to have the DVD Drive ( either via USB or Internal SATA ) pass through from the FreeNAS system into a Windows Based VM?

the reason:
i often need to copy Media content to DVD for other family members and none of the Laptops in the house have DVD drives so i currently just use the Home server for that. would rather not have to purchase any additional hardware as i currently have it already.

the end goal would be to RDP to a Windows VM, copy the content to DVD drive and not have the laptop on for 1+additional Hours for it to complete as the Home Server is currently on 24/7

any advise would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

 

[kdragon75]

It sounds like you might be using bhyve. You might be able to map it as a block device. Setup a testing VM (with vt-d passthrough) and test!

 

[The Torrie]

HI Kdragon75,

that's for the tips, do you or has anyone else on here know if that would actually work? as i'm only able to fire up FreeNAS in a VM to test and obviously vt-d isn't available in a VM version of FreeNAS. as migrating almost 7TB of data will take a considerable amount of time i don't want to have it all completed then realize that it doesn't work

PC specs are
DELL T3610
1x 256GB SSD
4x 4TB HDD
CPU: Intel Xeon Processor E5-1620 v 2
RAM: 32GB
GPU: 2 x Nvidia NVS 510

it was an Old PC that my company was disposing of that i've re-purposed.

thanks again for the help.

 

[kdragon75]

obviously vt-d isn't available in a VM version of FreeNAS.

This depends on the hypervisor used. I know VMware's will and I think Virtual box has the option too.