can I  install truenas or freenas on unraid server as VM and passthrough physical HDD

 

I want to install the OS on Primary vDisk then passthrough physical HDD

 

 

Edited March 27, 20215 yr by Ahmad Abd Al-Hadi

YES.

I just did it. But I cannot passthrough physical HDD in ZFS to the VM. How about you?

I boot it on USB drive.

the drives you want to passthough need to be all on one controller i was doing this for a long time and worked really really well BUT with zfs the drives are spinning more than with unraid and the power usage jumped 150w for me so ive gone back to the slower unraid array only for that reason electric is super exspencive where i live as mutch as 3euros a kwh at some point in the day 

On 3/31/2021 at 12:14 PM, fxhe said:

YES.

I just did it. But I cannot passthrough physical HDD in ZFS to the VM. How about you?

I boot it on USB drive.

Can I ask, what setup process did you follow, i.e. the setting and config?

 

I am trying to recreate this but for some reason Unraid just becomes unresponsive after clicking create (I try Q35-5.1 and Q35-7.1 but no luck (with sata as the host bus)). As it happens I have a usb drive with TruNAS already installed on it but my brain has not put together the logic to take that data and get it on a vdisk. Anyone else experience a system hang?