VM questions inside

[Timothy Gleason]

So I have freenas working with usb drive

I put some data onto a raidz2 system

I wish to not spend more money on another physical pc for window server

I can multiboot manually or you can clue me in on the vm solutions?

windows server with freenas in a vm

Thank you in advance


if you have no idea how to do this then say so

 

[pirateghost]

The old rule applies here. If you have to ask how to virtualize your NAS, then you shouldn't be doing it...

You should not attempt to dual boot, as that defeats the entire purpose of making a server...it won't be online if you're booted into Windows.

Save yourself the trouble and headaches. Either get a second computer, or just install Windows on your hardware and share your files from there.... don't try to shoehorn FreeNAS into something that precarious.

 

[adrianwi]

What do you need Windows for? If it's running in the background as a server, Windows in a VM on FreeNAS works fine for me.

 

[danb35]

windows server with freenas in a vm

Is that what you're running, or what you're proposing to run? If the former, stop. If the latter, don't. If you need to run some Windows software, do as @AdrianWilliamson suggests--install FreeNAS, add a VirtualBox jail, and install Windows in a VM there. Note that this process will likely change significantly when FreeNAS 10 is released using bhyve as the built-in hypervisor.

 

[Timothy Gleason]

thx bro, its a study that expanded
ty, i will share my fails with you if u want to

 

[Timothy Gleason]

thx bro, its a study that expanded
ty, i will share my fails with you if u want to

i got stuff working, just fyi, imported the volume