trying to migrate back and not sure why...

[Sean Coston]

Just booted up an instance of FreeNas 11 (which I understand is the same thing as the 9.10-Nightlies train).
It is not the new test 9.x GUI -- not sure which "train to get on for that." For me it's kind of depressing going back to the 9.x GUI from Corral, but anyway...

For me, Corral is working "just fine" right now, but I worry about being on an abandoned platform.

I have a Windows VM and an ubuntu VM that I am trying to migrate to any 9.10-xxx install from Corral. Has anyone done this successfully?
I tried using the GUI VM config tabs, but couldn't get off the ground. Can't figure out how to designate the nic as "bridged," no way to see the VM nic mac address or ip, My pfsense leases page does not indicate what ip the VM is obtaining, so I must be doing something wrong. I'd hate to have to rebuild the VMs from scratch.

Will it be easier later if I just wait for like 9.10.3 or .4?

Being without my two VMs is a dealbreaker though.
I can live without my 5 Docker containers (Crashplan, Calibre, Transmission w VPN client, and two minecraft servers) as I can migrate these to my VMs if necessary or, uggh! rebuild my old jails.

Alternatively, if I can migrate my VM's back to 9.10-nightlies or 11 I was thinking to experiment with building a Docker VM or jail host.

 

[dlavigne]

Just booted up an instance of FreeNas 11 (which I understand is the same thing as the 9.10-Nightlies train).
It is not the new test 9.x GUI -- not sure which "train to get on for that." For me it's kind of depressing going back to the 9.x GUI from Corral, but anyway....

The new GUI is in there, just not enabled by default as it's still a WIP. Simply click on the message at the login screen to load the new GUI.

 

[Sean Coston]

Oh OK. Did not see that. Thanks!

Still not sure how to get my VMs from Corral imported and up...

SDC

 

[NeedNAS]

Oh OK. Did not see that. Thanks!

Still not sure how to get my VMs from Corral imported and up...

SDC

I down graded last week. I'm still in the testing phase.
But here is what I did with the 2 Windows VM I had running on Corral.
After I importing all my storage. I went to the VM section in the GUI.
Click Add VM
Filled in the table selected OK.
That should now create a VM in the GUI.
Select the new VM in the table on the VM GUI page.
Click "Devices" at the bottom.
The GUI should of created two devices, the NIC and the VNC.
Modify those as needed.
Select "Add Device"
You can see there you can add a "disk" and a "CD ROM"
When I added the "Disk" I just pointed it to the existing VM ZVOL that was created in Corral.
You can add a CD ROM or another NIC if needed.
After you get all the devices setup that you need, click the "VMs" button in the upper left.
From there you can select your VM then hit start.
Open a VNC viewer and pint the IP (of FreeNAS and Port you created the the VNC device)

The GUI only seems to offer UEFI or UEFI-CSM for booting.

For command line stuff try looking at this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCDh9K16Q5Q
It references 9.10.2 (not the 9.10 nightly or the FN11 nightly)

I'm still trying to work out all the "new" VM stuff in 9.10.

 

[Sean Coston]

I down graded last week. I'm still in the testing phase.
But here is what I did with the 2 Windows VM I had running on Corral.
After I importing all my storage. I went to the VM section in the GUI.
Click Add VM
Filled in the table selected OK.
That should now create a VM in the GUI.
Select the new VM in the table on the VM GUI page.
Click "Devices" at the bottom.
The GUI should of created two devices, the NIC and the VNC.
Modify those as needed.
Select "Add Device"
You can see there you can add a "disk" and a "CD ROM"
When I added the "Disk" I just pointed it to the existing VM ZVOL that was created in Corral.
You can add a CD ROM or another NIC if needed.
After you get all the devices setup that you need, click the "VMs" button in the upper left.
From there you can select your VM then hit start.
Open a VNC viewer and pint the IP (of FreeNAS and Port you created the the VNC device)

The GUI only seems to offer UEFI or UEFI-CSM for booting.

For command line stuff try looking at this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCDh9K16Q5Q
It references 9.10.2 (not the 9.10 nightly or the FN11 nightly)

I'm still trying to work out all the "new" VM stuff in 9.10.

Thanks!

I had already done exactly those steps, but it hadn't worked for me -- I came to realize that there was a "wait-to-boot" checkbox on the VNC device I needed to uncheck.
The VMs mac id is different from the one Corral gave it, so I have to reconfigure some stuff in my router. I also need to set up my SMB shares again, but I'll get there.

SDC

 

[maydo]

I down graded last week. I'm still in the testing phase.
But here is what I did with the 2 Windows VM I had running on Corral.
After I importing all my storage. I went to the VM section in the GUI.
Click Add VM
Filled in the table selected OK.
That should now create a VM in the GUI.
Select the new VM in the table on the VM GUI page.
Click "Devices" at the bottom.
The GUI should of created two devices, the NIC and the VNC.
Modify those as needed.
Select "Add Device"
You can see there you can add a "disk" and a "CD ROM"
When I added the "Disk" I just pointed it to the existing VM ZVOL that was created in Corral.
You can add a CD ROM or another NIC if needed.
After you get all the devices setup that you need, click the "VMs" button in the upper left.
From there you can select your VM then hit start.
Open a VNC viewer and pint the IP (of FreeNAS and Port you created the the VNC device)

The GUI only seems to offer UEFI or UEFI-CSM for booting.

For command line stuff try looking at this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCDh9K16Q5Q
It references 9.10.2 (not the 9.10 nightly or the FN11 nightly)

I'm still trying to work out all the "new" VM stuff in 9.10.

the boot2docker vms should work same way on fn11, has someone tested ?

 

[Sean Coston]

the boot2docker vms should work same way on fn11, has someone tested ?

I got my windows VM moved over to FN11 using the VM GUI tab and it runs well.
I am trying to migrate my ubuntu 16.04 server VM over but am doing it in iohyve as it requires grub-bhyve bootloader and some other settings I'm not sure how to designate with the FN11 GUI VM tab.
If I get this running, I'll look into migrating the boot2docker VM as well...

 

[NeedNAS]

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I am trying to migrate my ubuntu 16.04 server VM over but am doing it in iohyve as it requires grub-bhyve bootloader and some other settings I'm not sure how to designate with the FN11 GUI VM tab.
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You can't right now from the GUI in FN11. I think iohyve is probably the easiest way to get it working right now.
I saw that someone put in a feature request for the grub and hyveload bootloaders. It's "targeted" for 11.1 release.