Comments on: FreeNAS on VirtualBox – Installation

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:14:00 +0000

Thank you so much! the PCnet-PCI II worked perfectly.

By: anuj s

anuj s — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 18:21:00 +0000

a found same post here
http://www.winservers.co.in/how-to-install-freenas/

By: JamesCochran

JamesCochran — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 06:43:33 +0000

I'm not real familiar with linux or mint. I would try posing your question

to the forums at vbox or a linux site dedicated to mint. If you were using

Windows I'd ask you if you had tried rebooting Perhaps there is a

virtual lan driver that virtual box installs that didn't get installed. Are

you using the freeware version of virtualbox or the one that comes with

drivers that aren't considered freeware? I always had trouble with the one

that was freeware and I always installed the one that wasn't. Hopefully one

of those things will guide you down the right path. Take care!

By: Spectral_knight75

Spectral_knight75 — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 06:22:03 +0000

Hi James, I like the article you wrote. Except my variation of things made me hit a wall. Background info : Host : Linux Mint5 KDE Elyssa, Virtualbox by Innotek OSE from mint5 linux repository verstion 1.5.6_OSE. I was able to get FreeNAS installed to a vbox vm, except it didn't assign any ip to access it..all I got was 0.0.0.0/24 and http://0.0.0.0:80. For the Network option under the version of Vbox I use, I get an error when I try to use Host Interface, I don't have a bridged option either. It gets up and running if I choose NAT..but then I can not access the VM and it will not assign an IP. I tried manual IP address..and the dns too, got that from my router and tried to use open dns also. None of that helped. Any ideas would be great. Since right now I don't have a spare box to dedicate yet to FreeNAS.

By: GrumpyHoser

GrumpyHoser — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 02:58:33 +0000

I had similar problems, but discovered the following: a) for your network, change NAT to Bridged Adapter, then click 'advanced' below that, and choose adapter type 'PCnet-PCI II' – the default adapter type won't work in FreeBSD. b) to stop going to mountroot>, in system–>base memory, bump it up from 128 to 256. That resolved my mountroot> problems. Good luck.

By: dinesh

dinesh — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:30:04 +0000

Latest FreeNAS 0.7.2 on latest VirtualBox available here.
http://www.sysprobs.com/configure-iscsi-server-...

By: azdave

azdave — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:47:07 +0000

Just tired, everything was going fine up until the point where I was setting up the Virtual Machine. I must have a different verison of things. (virtual box 3.2.4) I figured out how to get the iso image hooked up, but the Network is defaulted to NAT, and “Host Interface” is not an option. I left it at NAT. I started the machine and got a box with 6 option, not 9, and then off it went, and ended up giving me mountroot>
FreeNAS is 0.7.2, have things changed that drastically?

By: JamesCochran

JamesCochran — Sun, 23 May 2010 23:00:05 +0000

You can make as many virtual disks as vb will let you and use them all in freeness. Keep in mind tho that speed is going to be a problem and for environments where you want to rely on freeness heavily you should run it on a dedicated system. This tutorial is more to let you see if you'll like the features enough to use it full time.

By: Asir

Asir — Sun, 23 May 2010 18:05:08 +0000

Very good info about using VB FreeNAS. I want to use my htpc with 6 TB of storage (4×1.5 TB HD) also as a NAS. Running a HTPC with Media Portal an using VB freenas sound very interesrting. Can i mount also maps on my system (shared maps in VB) in freenas? I read some info and think it cant be done if not, VB can make virtualHD's 2TB max. is it possible to make more virtual hddisks in virtualbox in freenas?? Thx for youre awnser.

By: kyber

kyber — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:52:21 +0000

many thanks for excellent guide; found it very easy to follow and worked first time (Windows XP SP3 host, IBM Thinkpad T61)