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In this repo, you will find all of the 'canned templates' for creating VMson FreeNAS 10 - what you see when you use the vm template show command.

But as per the official website for the commercial or production purpose, the installation of FreeNAS on the virtual machine is not recommended. To install and run the FreeNAS VM (Virtual machine) on the Virtual box you have to create a virtual machine that fulfils the following minimum requirements of FreeNAS OS: FreeNAS ISO image; 8GB RAM at. Recently we have been working on a new Proxmox VE cluster based on Ceph to host STH. During the process we have been learning quite a bit experimenting with the system. While the VMware ESXi all-in-one using either FreeNAS or OmniOS + Napp-it has been extremely popular, KVM and containers are where. First, under Configure - Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown configure your FreeNAS VM to boot first. Then give FreeNAS a post init Task (like the nutscript above) to ssh into VMware and run a command like this: ssh root@vmwarehost esxi storage core adapter rescan –all (or you can specify the iSCSI adapter). My NFS share is set up with the path as above and I've tried the network set to 10.11.11.0/24 and 10.11.11.106/32. The disk that is shared also has FreeNAS on it, so it is formatted with UFS. I'm posting here to check that my VMWare config is correct, I think it is as the FreeNAS box is registering the connection attempt in the logs. Well, technically, FreeBSD will be the hypervisor host. Anyhow, starting with FreeNAS 10 (which leverages FreeBSD 10), Bhyve (part of FreeBSD 10) is available as a hypervisor. The guy running FreeNAS stated at the end of his 'State of the Union' youtube video on FreeNAS that FreeNAS 10 will have Bhyve for doing VM's.

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Use an existing VM as a template

Deploying FreeNAS as iSCSI SAN for VMware vSphere Shared storage among vSphere/ESXi hosts is required for many features in VMware’s vSphere. Traditional solutions for shared storage include VMware vSAN, VMware VSA and commercial SAN. Create a FreeNAS Corral VM. FreeBSD (64-bit) Install it to the DC S3700 Datastore that VMware is installed on. Add PCI Device and Select your LSI Card. Add a second NIC for the VM Storage Network. You should have two NICS for FreeNAS, a VM Network and a VM Storage Network and you should set the Adapter Type to VMXNET 3 on both.

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If you would like to use an already created VM as your template do the following:

  • Check out the repository
  • Copy and rename the folder from which your template was based on
  • Stop the running VM and use dd on the FreeBSD CLI
  • Then rename the image and compress it, this may take a while.
  • This last little rename/compress step was just to conform with the same naming conventions as my source template, at which point I then edited the template.json file in the directory created previously to correctly reference this new image and edited some of the book-keeping fields to match, then I uploaded the os.img.gz file to the location specified in the url field (which could be any HTTP server you have access to) and filled in the sha256 checksum field by running shasum -a 256 os.img.gz and pasting in the results.
  • Finally, commit the result to github with a git commit / git push, then add your github vm-templates repository under VM -> Settings in the form of https://github.com/[username]/vm-templates and voila! Your new template will now show up along with all the other templates.

Manually create a new OS template from an existing template

Here's the step-by-step process I used to create the FreeBSD-current (11.0)template, using freebsd-current as thestarting image. I also used bhyve running on FreeBSD 10.3 as the bootstraphost, though some folks have reported good results with xhyve on the Mac. Parallel port.

  • First, obviously, I needed to check out the vm-templates repo and start working in it:
  • Next, you have to acquire the template disk image, I copied the template that looked the most like my target template. In my case, since I was targetting another FreeBSD template, it was obvious enough to simply duplicate the existing FreeBSD 10.2-zfs template (a 10.2 install with the ZFS option selected).
  • Then I grabbed an ISO installation image from ftp.freebsd.org, as linked above, and started the steps to get bhyve ready to boot it:
  • Then I ran bhyve's helpful vmrun.sh script to start things off.
  • At this point, FreeBSD's standard installer ran, the appropriate ZFS installation options were chosen, and I exited bhyve by selecting the loader prompt on the next reboot and typing 'quit'. This dropped me back to the shell on the host OS, where I was next able to do:

This last little rename/compress step was just to conform with the same naming conventions as my source template, at which point I then edited the template.json file in my new freebsd-11-zfs direcory to correctly reference this new image and edited some of the book-keeping fields to match, then I uploaded the os.img.gz file to the location specified in the url field (which could be any HTTP server you have access to) and filled in the sha256 checksum field by running shasum -a 256 os.img.gz and pasting in the results.

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  • Finally, I committed the result to github with a git commit / git push, added my github vm-templates repository under VM -> Settings in the form of https://github.com/[username]/vm-templates and voila! My FreeNAS 10 CLI now shows:
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Demonstrating that the template list is automatically pulled from github.

  • Of course, the final proof was to actually create a VM with the new template on my FreeNAS 10 box:

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Login is a root (no password), tada! Running FreeBSD-current from this new template.