Freenas Virtio Drivers

Hey all, I recently built my first small server at home to learn and experiment on. It is currently running Ubuntu Server 12.04 headless. Ubuntu and my Freenas VM are installed on a 120gb SSD. I want to add three 1tb SATA HDDs but at the moment have only installed one. I haven't added it to the Ubuntu install or formatted it, it is just a bare drive at the moment.

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I have googled alot but I can't seem to figure out how to add this in a way that it will be accessible to the Freenas VM. When I log in to Freenas through the web gui and view disks I see nothing. Can someone help with steps that I can apply to this and the other two 1tb drives I will add? To be clear, I want these drives to be owned/managed by the Freenas VM, all of the Ubuntu server stuff and any VMs including the freenas one will be on the 120gb SSD. I set up the VM using virt-manager.

That process was a bit daunting because the OmniOS installer doesn’t include the virtio drivers by default, so I had to install to an IDE disk, pull in the virtio drivers from the pkg repos, attach a virtio disk, add the new drive to the root pool, then remove the old one.

I use virsh to start/stop it (and now autostart it). I am pretty much a noob but I have spent alot of time googling and reading. Just can't quite seem to find anything on this. If you're feeding it the whole disk, raw is the storage format.

Probably you want SATA or SCSI as the type - I don't *think* FreeNAS is going to have built-in VirtIO drivers. (If it did, then you'd want VirtIO. If you're not really following here, what you're doing is presenting a virtual 'disk' to your FreeNAS guest complete with 'hardware' interface and all - and you would be, even if you were in reality only handling it a file on your drive to store that 'disk' in.

VirtIO is more efficient than emulating IDE or SATA hardware, but AFAIK you won't have a VirtIO driver under FreeBSD, which FreeNAS is based on, so you should probably just go SATA or SCSI. I'd recommend SCSI, if it's available.).

The virtio_random(4) driver, allowing a VM guest to use the host as an entropy source, is not built in to the kernel nor provided as a module in 9.10.2: [rob@freenas /]$ kldstat -v grep virtio 414 virtio_pci/virtio_scsi 413 virtio_pci/virtio_balloon 412 virtio_pci/virtio_blk 411 virtio_pci/vtnet 410 pci/virtio_pci 409 virtio The device is recognized at boot time, but no driver is attached: virtio_pci2: port 0xc100-0xc11f irq 11 at device 4.0 on pci0 Presumably this is a simple kernel config update to add -- please do! Alexander Motin wrote: I've decided to close this. I don't like existing driver enough to just add it to the kernel, while we have not enough time and motivation to rewrite it.

Hey all, I recently built my first small server at home to learn and experiment on. It is currently running Ubuntu Server 12.04 headless. Ubuntu and my Freenas VM are installed on a 120gb SSD. I want to add three 1tb SATA HDDs but at the moment have only installed one. I haven't added it to the Ubuntu install or formatted it, it is just a bare drive at the moment.

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I have googled alot but I can't seem to figure out how to add this in a way that it will be accessible to the Freenas VM. When I log in to Freenas through the web gui and view disks I see nothing. Can someone help with steps that I can apply to this and the other two 1tb drives I will add? To be clear, I want these drives to be owned/managed by the Freenas VM, all of the Ubuntu server stuff and any VMs including the freenas one will be on the 120gb SSD. I set up the VM using virt-manager.

That process was a bit daunting because the OmniOS installer doesn’t include the virtio drivers by default, so I had to install to an IDE disk, pull in the virtio drivers from the pkg repos, attach a virtio disk, add the new drive to the root pool, then remove the old one.

I use virsh to start/stop it (and now autostart it). I am pretty much a noob but I have spent alot of time googling and reading. Just can't quite seem to find anything on this. If you're feeding it the whole disk, raw is the storage format.

Probably you want SATA or SCSI as the type - I don't *think* FreeNAS is going to have built-in VirtIO drivers. (If it did, then you'd want VirtIO. If you're not really following here, what you're doing is presenting a virtual 'disk' to your FreeNAS guest complete with 'hardware' interface and all - and you would be, even if you were in reality only handling it a file on your drive to store that 'disk' in.

VirtIO is more efficient than emulating IDE or SATA hardware, but AFAIK you won't have a VirtIO driver under FreeBSD, which FreeNAS is based on, so you should probably just go SATA or SCSI. I'd recommend SCSI, if it's available.).

The virtio_random(4) driver, allowing a VM guest to use the host as an entropy source, is not built in to the kernel nor provided as a module in 9.10.2: [rob@freenas /]$ kldstat -v grep virtio 414 virtio_pci/virtio_scsi 413 virtio_pci/virtio_balloon 412 virtio_pci/virtio_blk 411 virtio_pci/vtnet 410 pci/virtio_pci 409 virtio The device is recognized at boot time, but no driver is attached: virtio_pci2: port 0xc100-0xc11f irq 11 at device 4.0 on pci0 Presumably this is a simple kernel config update to add -- please do! Alexander Motin wrote: I've decided to close this. I don't like existing driver enough to just add it to the kernel, while we have not enough time and motivation to rewrite it.