VMs / VNC Broken?

[Darrell Breeden]

So I have some hardware that was previously running 11.2. I wiped it and installed the newest 11.3-RELEASE-p7. On the last version I was able to run VMs without much issue, but I've noticed some strange behavior on this version.

I can create the VM, it will go into running, but selecting the VNC link shows connection refused. If we say the IP address it's bound to is 1.1.1.1, it's targeting port 5545. All boxes outside of the FreeNas box can reach the IP address 1.1.1.1 via ICMP (ping) but telnetting to that port yields nothing.

When I'm on the freenas shell, however, I can issue telnet 1.1.1.1 5545 and it opens a connection. Also, attempts to ssh tunnel yield a STDERR of administratively blocked.

These hosts previously ran VMWare and Xenserver, so I'm kind of struggling to see what's changed here. Any ideas?

 

[Darrell Breeden]

So I was able to work around it altogether by allowing port forwarding in the SSH config, forwarding and connecting with VNC directly o.o