FreeNAS Setup Help!

[Spike199421]

Hi guys, my goal is to simply setup freenas, i'm using the corral version within a virtual enviroment, everything i see and read on the internet mentions a console setup where you can use numbers to navigate and set up things like an ip address, however, once done and booted it just has the web url link which doesn't work.

I'm using an AMD FX-8350 with 16GB of RAM, and VMWare Workstation Pro 12.

Why can't i access the console setup page, or how can i access it please???

Thank you in advandce

[Oshino Shinobu]

Console setup, managing things like the IP config, is done on the actual FreeNAS system, rather than through a remote connection. For normal use case, this just means connecting a keyboard up to the FreeNAS system and setting it up through that. I'm not sure how different the process is when running FreeNAS in a VM. As for the IP address, I don't know how that would work either, as it will be running through the PC the VM is on, which in turn has its own IP address.

 

Did you follow a guide for setting up FreeNAS on a VM? General advice that I see is to run FreeNAS as the base OS, otherwise you're negating the benefits of ZFS by adding layers inbetween FreeNAS and the hardware.

 

For the console setup, you should see something like this with options for what you want to change.

 

 

[Spike199421]

4 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Console setup, managing things like the IP config, is done on the actual FreeNAS system, rather than through a remote connection. For normal use case, this just means connecting a keyboard up to the FreeNAS system and setting it up through that. I'm not sure how different the process is when running FreeNAS in a VM. As for the IP address, I don't know how that would work either, as it will be running through the PC the VM is on, which in turn has its own IP address.

 

Did you follow a guide for setting up FreeNAS on a VM? General advice that I see is to run FreeNAS as the base OS, otherwise you're negating the benefits of ZFS by adding layers inbetween FreeNAS and the hardware.

 

For the console setup, you should see something like this with options for what you want to change.

 

 

Thank you for your reply, i followed several different tutorials, according to the tutorials it should work right away, but mine doesnt, and i have no idea what happened or how to fix it

 

[Oshino Shinobu]

4 minutes ago, Spike199421 said:

Thank you for your reply, i followed several different tutorials, according to the tutorials it should work right away, but mine doesnt, and i have no idea what happened or how to fix it

 

Might be a good idea to reinstall and try again. Maybe move to FreeNAS 9.10 instead of Corral to see if that works any better for you. 

[Spike199421]

3 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Might be a good idea to reinstall and try again. Maybe move to FreeNAS 9.10 instead of Corral to see if that works any better for you. 

okay thank you

[ProjectBox153]

I wouldn't install it in a Virtual Machine. FreeNAS may have an issue when dealing with virtualized network controllers. 

[dalekphalm]

1 hour ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Console setup, managing things like the IP config, is done on the actual FreeNAS system, rather than through a remote connection. For normal use case, this just means connecting a keyboard up to the FreeNAS system and setting it up through that. I'm not sure how different the process is when running FreeNAS in a VM. As for the IP address, I don't know how that would work either, as it will be running through the PC the VM is on, which in turn has its own IP address.

 

Did you follow a guide for setting up FreeNAS on a VM? General advice that I see is to run FreeNAS as the base OS, otherwise you're negating the benefits of ZFS by adding layers inbetween FreeNAS and the hardware.

 

For the console setup, you should see something like this with options for what you want to change.

 

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Virtualizing FreeNAS can still work - and with ZFS too. Your main concern is having a secondary SATA controller, or using an HBA, to physically pass the disks directly to FreeNAS. You need a VM software that allows Device/PCIe passthrough - not every software supports this.

 

@Spike199421 running FreeNAS Corral in a VM is fine for testing, but honestly, because it now supports native virtualization, you're still better off running it as the Base OS and virtualizing any other OS you need to run (Eg: Linux or Windows Server).

[Spike199421]

4 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

Virtualizing FreeNAS can still work - and with ZFS too. Your main concern is having a secondary SATA controller, or using an HBA, to physically pass the disks directly to FreeNAS. You need a VM software that allows Device/PCIe passthrough - not every software supports this.

 

@Spike199421 running FreeNAS Corral in a VM is fine for testing, but honestly, because it now supports native virtualization, you're still better off running it as the Base OS and virtualizing any other OS you need to run (Eg: Linux or Windows Server).

okay doaky, thank you very much for your advice