FreeNAS as HOST for VMs?

[freedt]

Hey Folks!

[feel free to skip this paragraph to get right to my question]
I'm completely new to FreeNAS and haven't even tried around on a VM with it. I will soon have a powerful PC available that I have no special use for and always wanted a good solution for storing my private data, so I think it is time to get my hands dirty. But I feel like occupying the entire machine for my private data would be a little waist of horse power and I also want to try around with web- and mailservers. So I thought about virtualisation.

I'm aware about the problems with running FreeNAS AS as virtual machine, but I was wondering if I can use the underlaying FreeBSD to install some kind of Type-2 Hypervisor (like Virtualbox) to run VMs on.

I think this would be a great solution for my needs and am looking forward to read your words of wisdom :)

Kind regards
freedt

 

[cyberjock]

Well, its supposedly possible. But I don't think I've seen anyone on the forums actually get virtualbox running in a jail. If they did, it would make big news in these parts because so many people would jump on the opportunity.

 

[jgreco]

Huh, I would have expected that to work in a jail from the port.... VirtualBox has been pretty easy to install on FreeBSD for years.

 

[freedt]

Ahh.. that's regrettable. I have decided to take a step away from freenas until it is able to host virtual machines OR is capable of working power saving mechanisms.

Thanks for your time anyway!

 

[Whattteva]

Technically, the jails are already pseudo VM's... albeit with a fixed OS that you can't change. Although, I've heard that a Linux one is in the works.

 

[kfnas]

Hello, does anybode successfully have installed Virtualbox/XEN/KVN as host in the Freenas system either in jail? Any install notes? kernel modules?