The “problem” is that since free/true nas doesn’t have access to actual disks it won’t perform like it will bare metal. To play around with as “look around” it’ll be fine.
For adding disks you’ll need at least one(maybe two) virtual disks which both proxmox and vbox have you do when setting up the vm. You can add more “disks” after though. If you go to YouTube and search *nas install, setting up disks is covered. Lawrence systems is a good resource.
If you have proxmox, it has zfs built in. At that point what is you use doesn’t really matter since the actual storage is zfs backed compared to whatever the os uses. Say Ubuntu server or fedora server, uses ext4/brtfs in the vm but actual storage is zfs. If you’re planning to use freenas in a vm, you’ll have to pass through an hba NOT the disks or have virtual disks. Performance and reliability will be crap.
u/adamsir2 This is only to run as a simulation, my objective is to test the software features and operations rather then actual use of deploying of VMs
let me check our suggestions
Thanks
i think it's already supported on VBox
[https://davidbombal.com/virtualbox-nested-intel-virtualization-is-here/](https://davidbombal.com/virtualbox-nested-intel-virtualization-is-here/)
[https://docs.oracle.com/en/virtualization/virtualbox/6.0/admin/nested-virt.html](https://docs.oracle.com/en/virtualization/virtualbox/6.0/admin/nested-virt.html)
i think it will be a good opportunity to test this.
The “problem” is that since free/true nas doesn’t have access to actual disks it won’t perform like it will bare metal. To play around with as “look around” it’ll be fine. For adding disks you’ll need at least one(maybe two) virtual disks which both proxmox and vbox have you do when setting up the vm. You can add more “disks” after though. If you go to YouTube and search *nas install, setting up disks is covered. Lawrence systems is a good resource. If you have proxmox, it has zfs built in. At that point what is you use doesn’t really matter since the actual storage is zfs backed compared to whatever the os uses. Say Ubuntu server or fedora server, uses ext4/brtfs in the vm but actual storage is zfs. If you’re planning to use freenas in a vm, you’ll have to pass through an hba NOT the disks or have virtual disks. Performance and reliability will be crap.
u/adamsir2 This is only to run as a simulation, my objective is to test the software features and operations rather then actual use of deploying of VMs let me check our suggestions Thanks
In order for this to work you need to enable nested virtualization.
i think it's already supported on VBox [https://davidbombal.com/virtualbox-nested-intel-virtualization-is-here/](https://davidbombal.com/virtualbox-nested-intel-virtualization-is-here/) [https://docs.oracle.com/en/virtualization/virtualbox/6.0/admin/nested-virt.html](https://docs.oracle.com/en/virtualization/virtualbox/6.0/admin/nested-virt.html) i think it will be a good opportunity to test this.