Testing FreeNAS 9.10 under VMWare Professional 8.5.6 on Mac OS

[Mark WatIng]

Morning All,

I'm having problems creating plugins on FreeNAS 9.10 under VMWare - they get to the point of create template message then it just hangs (I've tried multiple plugins same problem)

Currently on XPEnology and want to move to FreeNAS - just updated my HP Gen 8 Microserver to a Xeon 1265L and 16GB EEC, with a SSD for the Boot Drive so keen to move over.

My VMWare testing set up is :

• 20GB Boot Drive and 70GB - (tried SATA/IDE/iSCSI virtual disks) all work but still unable to create a a Plugin.
• 70GB Volume - again tried SATA/IDE/iSCSI virtual disks.
• Allocated 2 CPUS and 8GIG memory
• Network I have tried both NAT and Bridged.

I'm able to perform most operations on FreeNAS (updates, creating users/shares) - but plugins just don't work. I have tried the 9.10 stable and nightly trains both fail at the same point.

Is there something I missing re the VMWare set to support FreeNAS?

Any help greatly appreciated - would really like to move to FreeNAS but seems a little troublesome (was a beta test on FreeNAS 10 and was hoping that coming down to 9 I would get more stability but not panning out that way).

Sure I'm doing something wrong.

Many Thanks,
Mark.

 

[m0nkey_]

For plugins and jails to work, you need to enable promiscuous mode on the NIC in the VM configuration.

 

[Mark WatIng]

Thanks Monkey - I'm actually running VMWare Fusion ( it says professional in the about dialogue) and I think promiscuous mode is only related to ESXi.

Contrary to my post I've made progress using bridge network adapter - although hit another error message during the plugin install.

Thanks for reading and responding.
Mark.


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