VMFS Support

[Sergey Kopylov]

It would be very helpfull to have an ability to mount vmfs volumes somewhere.
Please add vmfs mount compability. It would help to have an access to virtuial machine files from freenas shell to copy, move or delete and etc.
Yes I know about NFS service it is good for esxi and in this case I have on option to see vm files in my mount point (ex. /mnt/nfs0)

Please add suppot of vmfs to mount vmfs volumes (usualy used with iscsi) to any mount point.

 

[jgreco]

VMFS is a VMware thing. There aren't any realistic implementations of a general purpose version anywhere in free-software-land, though there are some tools that may be able to implement read-only access. This isn't a project FreeNAS is likely to undertake, as I understand it. If someone produces a FreeBSD-compatible VMFS filesystem layer, then there's a much better chance of it happening.