Nice video. Would you be able to demonstrate how to set up Samba shares on the Truenas Scale host machine and create a Windows virtual machine that can access the samba shared folders from the host? I have not been able to find a solution to this issue I have.
Thank you for your feedback! I'm glad you found the tutorial helpful. Regarding your question about NVMe-oF, I can definitely create a tutorial on that topic. Here's an outline of what the tutorial would cover: Introduction to NVMe-oF and its benefits. Overview of the hardware and software requirements for setting up NVMe-oF with TrueNAS and ESXi. Setting up the target TrueNAS system with NVMe drives and enabling NVMe-oF. Configuring ESXi to use NVMe-oF as a storage protocol. Creating a VM in ESXi and attaching NVMe-oF storage from the TrueNAS system. Performance testing and benchmarking. Let me know if this tutorial outline aligns with what you were looking for, or if you have any additional suggestions or questions.
@Sauber-Lab UK it sounds great can you add NVMe namespace to devide physical NVMe drive and the requirements since i tried it on consumer NVMe but it didn't work. Thanks a million
But how do you remotely login to the VM that you created? The problem is that when you do this through the web interface, it's very slow and many of your keystrokes are being seen by the VM (e.g., hitting the Super key is seen by the host NOT the VM so it makes remoting king of useless). When I remote into a Windows server and display that server in full screen, it just works and there is no confusion about where the keystrokes are going. Does Linux have an equivalent to Remote Desktop?
Yes, Linux has several remote desktop solutions that you can use to remotely access your VM. One popular option is VNC (Virtual Network Computing), which allows you to connect to a desktop environment running on the VM and control it as if you were sitting in front of it. To use VNC, you need to install a VNC server on the VM, such as TigerVNC or TightVNC, and a VNC viewer on your local machine. Once both are installed, you can connect to the VM's desktop environment by specifying its IP address and port number. Another option is to use Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), which is a proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft for remote desktop access. You can use an RDP client, such as Remmina or FreeRDP, to connect to the VM's desktop environment and control it as if you were sitting in front of it. To use RDP, you need to install an RDP server on the VM, such as xrdp or rdesktop, and configure it to accept incoming connections. Then, you can connect to the VM's desktop environment by specifying its IP address and port number. Both VNC and RDP provide a fast and efficient way to remotely access a Linux VM's desktop environment, and allow you to work with it as if you were sitting in front of it.
@Sauber-Lab UK Thank you for the detail. Yeah I've been using Remote Desktop (RDP) for years but I did not think it would work for Linux VMs. It sounds like the Windows RDP Client can connect to a Linux VM vis xRDP. What I really want to do is remote into a Linux VM (Open SUSE, Garuda, whatever) hosted in a VM on my TrueNAS Scale server from my Linux Minut Cinnomon desktop. Basically, I want to evaluate other linux distros from the comfort of my desktop (linux mint).
Thanks for the video mate. Unfortunately, although I followed your guidance exactly, I received the following error when creating the first VM (after completing the new VM form checkboxes, I clicked the Save button to complete the process). ERROR: Error while creating the CDROM device. [EINVAL] attributes.path: 'libvirt-qemu' user cannot read from '/mnt/Home/data/ISO Files/ubuntu-22.04.1-live-server-amd64.iso' path. Please ensure correct permissions are specified. I'm using the latest version of TrueNAS: TrueNAS-SCALE-22.12.0 Thoughts?
The error message you received indicates that the user specified in the "attributes.path" field (which seems to be "libvirt-qemu") does not have permission to read the ISO file located at "/mnt/Home/data/ISO Files/ubuntu-22.04.1-live-server-amd64.iso". You can try the following steps to resolve the issue: Make sure that the ISO file exists at the specified location and that the file path is correct. Check the permissions of the ISO file by running the command ls -l /mnt/Home/data/ISO Files/ubuntu-22.04.1-live-server-amd64.iso. Make sure that the user "libvirt-qemu" has read permission (the permission should be "-r--r--r--" or "644"). If the permissions are not correct, you can change them by running the command chmod 644 /mnt/Home/data/ISO Files/ubuntu-22.04.1-live-server-amd64.iso. If the above steps don't resolve the issue, you can try changing the user specified in the "attributes.path" field to a user that has read permission to the ISO file. I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any further questions or issues.
@@sauberlab-uk Hi mate, thank you for this detailed response. I tried for a few days to fix this back when I wrote the comment above, with no luck. Scale works good as a NAS, but its feature and maturity with VMs is lacking. So I went back to Proxmox. Thanks again mate.
Nice video. Would you be able to demonstrate how to set up Samba shares on the Truenas Scale host machine and create a Windows virtual machine that can access the samba shared folders from the host? I have not been able to find a solution to this issue I have.
Muito bom, parabéns!!
Great info & well explained. Can you make a tutorial about NVMe-oF using TrueNAS as a targer for an ESXi host
Thanks again
Thank you for your feedback! I'm glad you found the tutorial helpful.
Regarding your question about NVMe-oF, I can definitely create a tutorial on that topic. Here's an outline of what the tutorial would cover:
Introduction to NVMe-oF and its benefits.
Overview of the hardware and software requirements for setting up NVMe-oF with TrueNAS and ESXi.
Setting up the target TrueNAS system with NVMe drives and enabling NVMe-oF.
Configuring ESXi to use NVMe-oF as a storage protocol.
Creating a VM in ESXi and attaching NVMe-oF storage from the TrueNAS system.
Performance testing and benchmarking.
Let me know if this tutorial outline aligns with what you were looking for, or if you have any additional suggestions or questions.
@Sauber-Lab UK it sounds great can you add NVMe namespace to devide physical NVMe drive and the requirements since i tried it on consumer NVMe but it didn't work.
Thanks a million
But how do you remotely login to the VM that you created? The problem is that when you do this through the web interface, it's very slow and many of your keystrokes are being seen by the VM (e.g., hitting the Super key is seen by the host NOT the VM so it makes remoting king of useless). When I remote into a Windows server and display that server in full screen, it just works and there is no confusion about where the keystrokes are going. Does Linux have an equivalent to Remote Desktop?
Yes, Linux has several remote desktop solutions that you can use to remotely access your VM. One popular option is VNC (Virtual Network Computing), which allows you to connect to a desktop environment running on the VM and control it as if you were sitting in front of it.
To use VNC, you need to install a VNC server on the VM, such as TigerVNC or TightVNC, and a VNC viewer on your local machine. Once both are installed, you can connect to the VM's desktop environment by specifying its IP address and port number.
Another option is to use Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), which is a proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft for remote desktop access. You can use an RDP client, such as Remmina or FreeRDP, to connect to the VM's desktop environment and control it as if you were sitting in front of it.
To use RDP, you need to install an RDP server on the VM, such as xrdp or rdesktop, and configure it to accept incoming connections. Then, you can connect to the VM's desktop environment by specifying its IP address and port number.
Both VNC and RDP provide a fast and efficient way to remotely access a Linux VM's desktop environment, and allow you to work with it as if you were sitting in front of it.
@Sauber-Lab UK Thank you for the detail. Yeah I've been using Remote Desktop (RDP) for years but I did not think it would work for Linux VMs. It sounds like the Windows RDP Client can connect to a Linux VM vis xRDP. What I really want to do is remote into a Linux VM (Open SUSE, Garuda, whatever) hosted in a VM on my TrueNAS Scale server from my Linux Minut Cinnomon desktop. Basically, I want to evaluate other linux distros from the comfort of my desktop (linux mint).
Thanks for the video mate. Unfortunately, although I followed your guidance exactly, I received the following error when creating the first VM (after completing the new VM form checkboxes, I clicked the Save button to complete the process). ERROR: Error while creating the CDROM device. [EINVAL] attributes.path: 'libvirt-qemu' user cannot read from '/mnt/Home/data/ISO Files/ubuntu-22.04.1-live-server-amd64.iso' path. Please ensure correct permissions are specified.
I'm using the latest version of TrueNAS: TrueNAS-SCALE-22.12.0
Thoughts?
The error message you received indicates that the user specified in the "attributes.path" field (which seems to be "libvirt-qemu") does not have permission to read the ISO file located at "/mnt/Home/data/ISO Files/ubuntu-22.04.1-live-server-amd64.iso".
You can try the following steps to resolve the issue:
Make sure that the ISO file exists at the specified location and that the file path is correct.
Check the permissions of the ISO file by running the command ls -l /mnt/Home/data/ISO Files/ubuntu-22.04.1-live-server-amd64.iso. Make sure that the user "libvirt-qemu" has read permission (the permission should be "-r--r--r--" or "644").
If the permissions are not correct, you can change them by running the command chmod 644 /mnt/Home/data/ISO Files/ubuntu-22.04.1-live-server-amd64.iso.
If the above steps don't resolve the issue, you can try changing the user specified in the "attributes.path" field to a user that has read permission to the ISO file.
I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any further questions or issues.
@@sauberlab-uk Hi mate, thank you for this detailed response. I tried for a few days to fix this back when I wrote the comment above, with no luck. Scale works good as a NAS, but its feature and maturity with VMs is lacking. So I went back to Proxmox. Thanks again mate.