I have managed to get virtio working for the Networking but i cannot get virtio working for the disk. I am currently using AHCI which is reportedly slower compared to virtio. I installed the drivers from virtio-win-0.1.171 and virtio-win-0.1.141 but still cannot get virtio to work for the disk.
@Jake Diaz Of course. Actually I do run WinXPsp3 (and a few other BSD related OS). The performance of any VM depends a lot on the underlying hardware and it MUST BE configured correctly. I have a pretty old Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU E7500 @ 2.93GHz and 4GB RAM. I only designate 1 core for the VM. Keep in mind, you should leave at least 1 core to run the server. If you have a more powerfull processor and enough RAM, I imagine the speed will be almost as good as on the real thing. It lags a bit on my system though. It is good enough for testing out programs but I would not use it as my every day computer.
It also lacks a lot of features to some of the alternatives, is built around an extremely cumbersome and terrible UI compared to the alternatives (straight up editing a .json config file would be a lot better, don't mistake the complaint as a lack of user friendliness. The design is just obtuse and bad) and is extremely limited compared to other level 2 hypervisors. Let's talk real. If anyone wanted a serious performing hypervisor it would offcourse be better to stick with a dedicated level 1 hypervisor. Freenas solution is not meant to be a solution to that issue. But it's supposed to be a convenient addon to enrich the Freenas feature set. But bhyve is not, it appears to be put in just as an afterthought. It's shit.
Sucha good video!! ive encountered all these tryna set up VM in Freenas and just tried different distros etc Cheers mate !!
I have managed to get virtio working for the Networking but i cannot get virtio working for the disk. I am currently using AHCI which is reportedly slower compared to virtio. I installed the drivers from virtio-win-0.1.171 and virtio-win-0.1.141 but still cannot get virtio to work for the disk.
Hard to say what is wrong just from this comment, the struggle with bhyve is real... Hope you’ll find solution...
Took about an hour to install 1809 Windows 10. It seems about 5x slower than KVM. Are they serious about this feature?
Yeap, It kinda how this works, It's cool that it's there but it's far from normal...
@@techteststutorialsHD Really unfortunate because I want to run FreeNAS as an all in one box and this defeats the plan!
Some say it’s save to run freenas as VM, but I too scared :)
@@skipdog77 Have you tried XigmaNAS? I moved from FreeNAS to NAS4Free (Recently renamed XigmaNAS) and never looked back.
@Jake Diaz Of course. Actually I do run WinXPsp3 (and a few other BSD related OS). The performance of any VM depends a lot on the underlying hardware and it MUST BE configured correctly.
I have a pretty old Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU E7500 @ 2.93GHz and 4GB RAM. I only designate 1 core for the VM. Keep in mind, you should leave at least 1 core to run the server. If you have a more powerfull processor and enough RAM, I imagine the speed will be almost as good as on the real thing. It lags a bit on my system though. It is good enough for testing out programs but I would not use it as my every day computer.
So bhyve is shit? Got it
It’s not, if you configure it good it works fine. Tho it’s not as easy to setup as some alternatives.
It also lacks a lot of features to some of the alternatives, is built around an extremely cumbersome and terrible UI compared to the alternatives (straight up editing a .json config file would be a lot better, don't mistake the complaint as a lack of user friendliness. The design is just obtuse and bad) and is extremely limited compared to other level 2 hypervisors.
Let's talk real. If anyone wanted a serious performing hypervisor it would offcourse be better to stick with a dedicated level 1 hypervisor. Freenas solution is not meant to be a solution to that issue. But it's supposed to be a convenient addon to enrich the Freenas feature set. But bhyve is not, it appears to be put in just as an afterthought. It's shit.
True, still better then nothing... nice to have VN in freenas, but as you said it’s limited