[CDBUG-talk] FreeNAS in a VM?

[freebsd at fongaboo.com]

It's generally not recommended, but possible...

Here's a guide:

http://olddoc.freenas.org/index.php/FreeNAS%C2%AE_in_a_Virtual_Environment


On Mon, 23 Feb 2015, Jaime wrote:

> 
> I'm looking to deploy new file servers at work for live network home directories on Mac workstations.  FreeNAS looks
> promising, given that its a nice web GUI with Open Directory (Apple's OpenLDAP & Kerberose solution) compatibility
> and AFP (Mac file serving) support.
> 
> I have a bunch of VM resources that I can allocate to this.  So that leaves me wondering if I can do that.   I know
> that ZFS is moot in a VM.  Its even counter productive, since it expects to have direct access to the drives.
> 
> So what do you think?  Could I run FreeNAS using UFS in a VM with about 8GB - 16GB of RAM?  Is there another option
> for Open Directory compatible file serving (AFP, SMB, or NFS) from within a VM?  Or even LDAP compatible in general?
> 
> Thanks in advance for the advise!
> 
> Jaime
> 
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