How to VNC connect to a FreeNAS VM

[grimreeper132]

1 minute ago, Mikensan said:

You typed 9899 in the URL

I typed nothing in, for some reason when you press "VNC via web" it takes you to the page of port number-100 (don't know why)

[Mikensan]

1 minute ago, grimreeper132 said:

I typed nothing in, for some reason when you press "VNC via web" it takes you to the page of port number-100 (don't know why)

Ah ok so it's doing the VNC thing then, where it -100 for the web port. Are you able to use a VNC viewer on 9999?

[grimreeper132]

3 minutes ago, Mikensan said:

Ah ok so it's doing the VNC thing then, where it -100 for the web port. Are you able to use a VNC viewer on 9999?

yes, and I also tried 9899, just encase

[jde3]

Ok you may have a bhyve limitation then. Bhyve is only a few years old now and.. for that age its pretty good really but they didn't backport it to work with older processors so you luck may vary. I was actually surprised it could do graphical consoles already at all and not just serial output. it also does PCI passthrough but not for graphics cards (just yet.. its coming)

 

Your Ubuntu guest you may be able to connect to via SSH in the meantime.

[grimreeper132]

3 minutes ago, jde3 said:

Ok you may have a bhyve limitation then. Bhyve is only a few years old now and.. for that age its pretty good really but they didn't backport it to work with older processors so you luck may vary. I was actually suppressed it could do graphical consoles already at all and not just serial output. it also does PCI passthrough but not for graphics cards (just yet.. its coming)

ok is there a way to not use Bhyve or am I stuck with Bhyve???

[jde3]

3 minutes ago, grimreeper132 said:

ok is there a way to not use Bhyve or am I stuck with Bhyve???

Your Ubuntu guest you may be able to connect to via SSH in the meantime.

 

Xen sort of exists, VirtualBox also.. I'm unsure what they are like to get going on FreeNAS tho. I imagine with abit of hacking I could do it. Headless Virtualbox isn't too too bad.

[jde3]

I think NAS4Free might use Virtualbox instead of Bhyve.

 

What off chance where you going to run on Ubuntu? Your app may run native. (you don't need a good reason.. could just be as simple as I wanted ubuntu.)

[grimreeper132]

5 minutes ago, jde3 said:

I think NAS4Free might use Virtualbox instead of Bhyve.

I have worked out how to change the boot method to GRUB, but I have no idea how to boot it, and unless I can run it from FreeNAS I would rather not, as I would rather use FreeNAS as I have set it it up now and this is one of those things that would be handy to have but isn't essential

[jde3]

Ok, the change may not be too bad however because NAS4Free and FreeNAS are very similar products.. both based on FreeBSD so the disk pool can probably be imported directly. It was just an idea.

[grimreeper132]

2 minutes ago, jde3 said:

Ok, the change may not be too bad however because NAS4Free and FreeNAS are very similar products.. both based on FreeBSD so the disk pool can probably be imported directly. It was just an idea.

yea, I might try it out on my test system then

[Mikensan]

if you can ssh into ubuntu then you can sudo apt-get install vnc or whatever the package name is, start the service and vnc directly into ubuntu.