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Cadet
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Hi,
I am planning to setup FreeNAS in a virtualized environment. I currently have 2 Intel E5-2620v4 https://ark.intel.com/products/92986/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2620-v4-20M-Cache-2_10-GHz on an Intel MB (Intel® Server Board S2600CW) . I do a passthrough of the motherboard's MEGARAID SAS controller and have enabled Virtualization in the BIOS. What I have found is that I cannot create a FreeNAS vm with more than 1 VCPU. I have tried a combination of Cores/CPUs but cannot get it to work. Installation with 1 VCPU works fine. Is this due to a problem with the physical CPU's I have (It should since they support Virtualization) or might this be something else?
Just some additional information:
Motherboard and raid controller firmware is the latest from intel.
VMware esxi has got the latest patches installed.
I am installing FreeNAS-11.0-U4.iso from a virtual CD drive.
The VM hard drive is eagerly zeroed.
The error I get when I try and add additional VCPU's is that the install hangs at: random unblocking device.
Changing the amount of VCPU's after installing with 1 VCPU causes the boot to hang at: Trying to mount root from zfs:freenas-boot/ROOT/default[]
Removing the PCI SAS controller from the FreeNAS VM allows me to startup FreeNAS with multiple VCPU's but this make it kind of useless.
Replicating the scenario using another OS (Ubuntu) allows me to use multiple VCPU's and the SAS controller which makes me think this has something to do with FreeNAS, is there a way to allow debug output during the startup?
Thank you.
I am planning to setup FreeNAS in a virtualized environment. I currently have 2 Intel E5-2620v4 https://ark.intel.com/products/92986/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2620-v4-20M-Cache-2_10-GHz on an Intel MB (Intel® Server Board S2600CW) . I do a passthrough of the motherboard's MEGARAID SAS controller and have enabled Virtualization in the BIOS. What I have found is that I cannot create a FreeNAS vm with more than 1 VCPU. I have tried a combination of Cores/CPUs but cannot get it to work. Installation with 1 VCPU works fine. Is this due to a problem with the physical CPU's I have (It should since they support Virtualization) or might this be something else?
Just some additional information:
Motherboard and raid controller firmware is the latest from intel.
VMware esxi has got the latest patches installed.
I am installing FreeNAS-11.0-U4.iso from a virtual CD drive.
The VM hard drive is eagerly zeroed.
The error I get when I try and add additional VCPU's is that the install hangs at: random unblocking device.
Changing the amount of VCPU's after installing with 1 VCPU causes the boot to hang at: Trying to mount root from zfs:freenas-boot/ROOT/default[]
Removing the PCI SAS controller from the FreeNAS VM allows me to startup FreeNAS with multiple VCPU's but this make it kind of useless.
Replicating the scenario using another OS (Ubuntu) allows me to use multiple VCPU's and the SAS controller which makes me think this has something to do with FreeNAS, is there a way to allow debug output during the startup?
Thank you.
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