simon_lefisch
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- May 24, 2020
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Hello everyone,
New to the forum and FreeNAS, but have been running Linux (CentOS) for a couple years now and loving it. Will actually be switching to Debain Stable due to new packages being available (ie; newer KVM features), but that's off-topic. Anyway, I have some questions about setting up FreeNAS as a VM.
I did find 2 threads about virtualizing FreeNAS (thread 1 and thread 2). The first says not to do it in a production environment while the other says it would be ok for home use, which is what I will be doing. I wanted to get peoples opinions about setting it up as both a file server (for transferring files between PCs and serving as storage for a Plex server VM) and a Time Machine backup server for my home. Obviously having dedicated hardware would be best, however I already have my main server tower and a video encoding machine that run for encoding my movies to Plex, so not having anymore visible hardware would be preferable. Can anyone give me some tips for setting up FreeNAS in KVM on my CentOS 7 box? I do realize that the qemu-kvm version in CentOS 7 is older (v1.5.3 if I'm not mistaken) which is why I am looking into switching to Debian 10 stable...newer version of KVM (v2/v3) with pass-through feature if I recall correctly. And from the reading of those 2 threads, it sounds like that's what needs to be done for FreeNAS to work properly/efficiently. Now, I currently have a VM of FreeNAS running and I set it up as a Time Machine backup server for testing purposes....I wanted to see how well it worked and that I was able to restore file/etc. So far it is working great and I would love to implement it....which is why I am here. So please, any info or insight anyone can provide would be great so I can make the best decision of which route to take....VM or hardware. Thank you for your time and help
New to the forum and FreeNAS, but have been running Linux (CentOS) for a couple years now and loving it. Will actually be switching to Debain Stable due to new packages being available (ie; newer KVM features), but that's off-topic. Anyway, I have some questions about setting up FreeNAS as a VM.
I did find 2 threads about virtualizing FreeNAS (thread 1 and thread 2). The first says not to do it in a production environment while the other says it would be ok for home use, which is what I will be doing. I wanted to get peoples opinions about setting it up as both a file server (for transferring files between PCs and serving as storage for a Plex server VM) and a Time Machine backup server for my home. Obviously having dedicated hardware would be best, however I already have my main server tower and a video encoding machine that run for encoding my movies to Plex, so not having anymore visible hardware would be preferable. Can anyone give me some tips for setting up FreeNAS in KVM on my CentOS 7 box? I do realize that the qemu-kvm version in CentOS 7 is older (v1.5.3 if I'm not mistaken) which is why I am looking into switching to Debian 10 stable...newer version of KVM (v2/v3) with pass-through feature if I recall correctly. And from the reading of those 2 threads, it sounds like that's what needs to be done for FreeNAS to work properly/efficiently. Now, I currently have a VM of FreeNAS running and I set it up as a Time Machine backup server for testing purposes....I wanted to see how well it worked and that I was able to restore file/etc. So far it is working great and I would love to implement it....which is why I am here. So please, any info or insight anyone can provide would be great so I can make the best decision of which route to take....VM or hardware. Thank you for your time and help