trying to install on VPS.

[micgo]

Hello, i m trying to install FreeNas on a VPS, i m able to DD the image and got to the installation page. but it's show no drives available. m i missing something ?

 

[jgreco]

Drives, apparently. A virtual private server typically doesn't have drives, it's just a jail or a container on a larger UNIX system.

If you have an actual virtual machine, there might be drives in the form of a vtbd device (look for /dev/vtbd0) which would be what you might find on a QEMU or KVM based VM. If "camcontrol devlist" lists nothing, though, it's not likely there's any supported drives.

 

[micgo]

Hello jgreco, thank your for your reply. i m very new to freenas. i have never installed one before. i don't have a vtbd device. i think there is only 1 device under da0

return from camcontrol devlist:

#camcontrol devlist
<NECVMWar VMware IDE CDR10 1.00> at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 Ccd0,pass0)
<Vmware Virtual disk 1.0> at scbus2 target 0 lun 0 (da0,passl)


i think my vps host is running vmware. is it not supported ?

 

[jgreco]

So you have a virtual machine, and it has a single disk. That is where FreeNAS will be installed. You need additional virtual disks for data. Note that this isn't necessarily a good configuration, we have some documentation about that elsewhere on the forums.

https://www.truenas.com/community/t...nas-in-production-as-a-virtual-machine.12484/

https://www.truenas.com/community/t...ative-for-those-seeking-virtualization.26095/

In any case, FreeNAS does not support using its boot device for NAS storage. If you can't get more disks added to the VM, you are basically out of luck.