Freenas Virtio Drivers

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I had experienced trying to get a Windows VM up and running on my FreeNAS my first time out. I just recently tried installing Linux Mint in a VM and got similar results: VM freezes up during install, VNC device conks out shortly after, VM then stops, UEFI prompt comes up when trying to boot off its zvol. I've seen some chatter about an issue waiting to be fixed upstream in Bhyve.

But is it across the board for everyone and every guest OS? What is going on? Also how does iohyve differ from Bhyve as it is presented in the FreeNAS GUI? Would it help any to try a guide like? Or is that not really applicable in 11.x?

Are there any alternative hypervisors that could be run in a jail on FreeNAS in lieu of Bhyve? So far it's proven useless.

Feb 3, 2018 - How to get FreeNAS running with disk pass-through in a Proxmox. The Proxmox VE KVM-based All-in-One. We could also use virtio as our. Dec 22, 2015  Solved Installing FreeBSD With VirtIO. Thread starter markzz989; Start date Dec 20, 2015; M. Markzz989 New Member. I use FreeBSD under Linux as a KVM guest. When doing so, I use VirtIO for networking and for storage and usually install. You install FreeBSD without VirtIO drivers. When you create a new VM, you can configure the storage.

EDIT: Just tried Ubuntu with pretty much identical results except the VNC device hasn't conked out yet. Yes, they should be in-built for linux, but for Windows you'll need a virtio driver iso from here: Bhyve is no totally broken, bhyve VMs may be stable once installed, but installation is currently hampered by flaky bhyve vnc console/webvnc which is picky about vnc clients, does no support non-US keymaps properly and stalls on installing guest OS whose EFI implementation is not as the byhve UEFI firmware expects. For linux OS installation try hitting enter a few times when using the bhyve vnc console. If things appear dead on 1st post-install boot, wait and you may after a few minutes be dropped to the EFI shell. Minus chastushek elochki sosenochki. Learn how to navigate to the boot64.efi and the required post install EFI fix for some Linux distros.

For debian/ubuntu execute as root: grub-install --efi-directory=/boot/efi --boot-directory=/boot --removable.

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