Installing Freenas 8.04 on Hyper-V Server with SCSI direct I/O pass through

[coreys]

Hello,

I've been struggling with configuring freenas 8.04 to recognize virtual SCSI drives created in Hyper-V for direct I/O pass through purposes. I am able to add the SCSI disks to the Hyper-V itself in the console, however, when I go into the web gui of freenas to create a volume, it doesn't recognize the disks. If I add them as IDE drives, it works; however, Hyper-V limits you to only 4 IDE devices in total, and I need to add 5 HDD + 1 CD-ROM. I tried installing the Linux Integration services, but I am unable to do so. I can't seem to mount the drive within Freenas.

Has anyone been able to add SCSI drives via Hyper-V to a virtual Freenas computer?

Thanks in advance, for any help! :)

 

[ppumkin]

Did you ever solve your problem? I thought maybe i should use iSCSI but it turned out to be not the case :(

I need to mount 4 Drives with an exiting ZFS pool- I decided to use Hyper-V core because freenas on its own started annoying me with all these plugin issues, no printer support so... So I want to have freenas VM (ZFS RAID5) and a windows 7 vm running sabnzdb, sharing all my files and printers nice and fast...

but the same problem cannot mount all 4 of my drives as 1 is taken up by the boot.vhd

 

[Azukay]

The issue seems to be due to Hyper-V not having a native FreeBSD SCSI driver. Apparently native FreeBSD support is being developed and is at Beta stage (http://redmondmag.com/articles/2012/08/09/freebsd-beta-for-windows-server-hyper-v.aspx).

 

[Azukay]

I couldn't get this to work at all in Hyper-V 2012 RC. Something to do with the SCSI generic driver. It works perfectly in VMware Workstation 9 though, that's what I'm currently running.

 

[ppumkin]

VMWare workstation? Sounds interesting. So technically I should have a Windows Pro/Server as the boot and run FreeNAS within vm workstation, yea?
Sounds like a good enough solution for me. Thanks :) :o

 

[Azukay]

VMWare workstation? Sounds interesting. So technically I should have a Windows Pro/Server as the boot and run FreeNAS within vm workstation, yea?
Sounds like a good enough solution for me. Thanks :) :o

That's what I'm doing, it seems to get around a few of the mainboard newness (Asus P8H77-M Pro compatability) issues. I did it this way because I originally (and continue to) intended to run other software under windows at the same time. Lots of other combos though.

 

[ppumkin]

That's what I'm doing, it seems to get around a few of the mainboard newness (Asus P8H77-M Pro compatability) issues. I did it this way because I originally (and continue to) intended to run other software under windows at the same time. Lots of other combos though.

Same with me. All my personal machines run Winblows 7 and soon 8 and I need to share printers(i have a4 and a3) without going upstairs and connecting direct into USB. and also want to have IIS7 with native .NET support for some personal sites i use easily I tried installing the FreeNAS printer drivers but ended up blowing up the FreeNAS install. So I gave up on that.

Great solution Bro!

 

[frauhansen]

nice.... i hope the project keeps running... i have this problem right now with my 10-disc project via hyperv and freenas

 

[gpsguy]

If you do a search of the forums, you'll find that Hyper-V won't be supported until FreeNAS 9.2, at the earliest. v9.1 is in alpha, right now.

i have this problem right now with my 10-disc project via hyperv and freenas