FreeNAS in virtual box

[miamiheat]

Hi Friends,

I have installed freenas 8 in my virtual box and when I go to web ui I don't see any menu option for "Disk Management" where I can add the disk. What could be the probem? I am totally new to this so bare with me please.

Thanks

 

[matthewowen01]

did you add disks to your virtual machine for FreeNAS to find?

 

[BradChesney79]

FreeNAS seems to need at least two disks for the GUI to work as intended. I managed to have the opposite problem. I added disks and created a way to mount my volume wrong which ended up storing files on my OS drive.

for you:

create a miniscule .vmdk or .vdi in the VM manager
add it to your machine in the settings

In FreeNAS

Access the command line

mkdir /mnt/mountpoint

Get into the FreeNAs GUI

Add the other disk from earlier and mount it at /mnt/mountpoint


Boom! Now you are writing to the OS Disk. Mind your permissions.

For me it was a glitch, for you it could be a workaround.