Please note that I see posts that say FreeNAS 11 doesn't support VMs and/or VNC and I see ones that say it does and people have it working fine. At this point since it is in the Web UI - I am assuming it is intended to work. If that is incorrect please let me know. I am just about at the point of saying forget FreeNAS and go with something else...but I'd really like to not let this beat me! :)
New install of FreeNAS 11-0-RC3 with no plugins, jails, or etc. loaded. Installed FreeNAS to thumb drive. From web gui added storage data set, added a zvol for the VM, added a VM with 1 CPU and 4096MB RAM, added devices to the VM for disk=zvol, vnc, cd-rom with Ubuntu iso, and network (tried both the default primary and tried doing a virtual). Click on Start and the status says running, try to connect a couple times with different VNC viewers - fails, status says stopped for the VM.
I have tried different ISO images for the CD, different options regarding wait for boot, different VNC port numbers, and whatever else seemed like it might help with no luck. I have rebooted the system multiple times. I have verified the BIOS is set to allow VMs and checked via SSH to the system -
Welcome to FreeNAS
root@freenas:~ # cat /var/run/dmesg.boot | grep VT-x | grep EPT
VT-x: PAT,HLT,MTF,PAUSE,EPT,VPID
root@freenas:~ #
root@freenas:/var/log # tail messages
May 29 14:50:56 freenas kernel: tap0: link state changed to UP
May 29 14:50:56 freenas kernel: tap0: link state changed to UP
May 29 14:51:14 freenas kernel: tap0: link state changed to DOWN
May 29 14:51:14 freenas kernel: tap0: link state changed to DOWN
May 29 15:23:56 freenas tap0: Ethernet address: 00:bd:e6:26:28:00
May 29 15:23:56 freenas kernel: tap0: promiscuous mode enabled
May 29 15:23:57 freenas kernel: tap0: link state changed to UP
May 29 15:23:57 freenas kernel: tap0: link state changed to UP
May 29 15:24:24 freenas kernel: tap0: link state changed to DOWN
May 29 15:24:24 freenas kernel: tap0: link state changed to DOWN
These show in the messages log around the time of trying to start the VM.
I am not an expert FreeBSD user but if you tell me what command's output you need to see or what log you need info from I will gladly post it.
Software/Hardware:
Fresh install of FreeNAS 11-0-RC3 on Dell R710 with 2 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5504 @ 2.00GHz CPUs, 32GBs RAM, 6 - 2TB HDDs in Hardware RAID 5 with FreeNAS installed on 16GB thumb drive.
New install of FreeNAS 11-0-RC3 with no plugins, jails, or etc. loaded. Installed FreeNAS to thumb drive. From web gui added storage data set, added a zvol for the VM, added a VM with 1 CPU and 4096MB RAM, added devices to the VM for disk=zvol, vnc, cd-rom with Ubuntu iso, and network (tried both the default primary and tried doing a virtual). Click on Start and the status says running, try to connect a couple times with different VNC viewers - fails, status says stopped for the VM.
I have tried different ISO images for the CD, different options regarding wait for boot, different VNC port numbers, and whatever else seemed like it might help with no luck. I have rebooted the system multiple times. I have verified the BIOS is set to allow VMs and checked via SSH to the system -
Welcome to FreeNAS
root@freenas:~ # cat /var/run/dmesg.boot | grep VT-x | grep EPT
VT-x: PAT,HLT,MTF,PAUSE,EPT,VPID
root@freenas:~ #
root@freenas:/var/log # tail messages
May 29 14:50:56 freenas kernel: tap0: link state changed to UP
May 29 14:50:56 freenas kernel: tap0: link state changed to UP
May 29 14:51:14 freenas kernel: tap0: link state changed to DOWN
May 29 14:51:14 freenas kernel: tap0: link state changed to DOWN
May 29 15:23:56 freenas tap0: Ethernet address: 00:bd:e6:26:28:00
May 29 15:23:56 freenas kernel: tap0: promiscuous mode enabled
May 29 15:23:57 freenas kernel: tap0: link state changed to UP
May 29 15:23:57 freenas kernel: tap0: link state changed to UP
May 29 15:24:24 freenas kernel: tap0: link state changed to DOWN
May 29 15:24:24 freenas kernel: tap0: link state changed to DOWN
These show in the messages log around the time of trying to start the VM.
I am not an expert FreeBSD user but if you tell me what command's output you need to see or what log you need info from I will gladly post it.
Software/Hardware:
Fresh install of FreeNAS 11-0-RC3 on Dell R710 with 2 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5504 @ 2.00GHz CPUs, 32GBs RAM, 6 - 2TB HDDs in Hardware RAID 5 with FreeNAS installed on 16GB thumb drive.