Freenas Virtio Drivers

After using my for a while, I grew tired of VMware’s bloat & limitations. Doing “cool stuff” in VMware requires a license, & vSphere Client only runs on Windows. I got tired of starting up a Windows VM just to manage my hypervisor. That’s the only thing I started Windows up for, and it got old.

I wanted something I could manage directly from my primary OS, OS X, as well as lightweight & preferably open source. There are plenty of hypervisor products on the market today, but I wanted to move to something open source & unix based. Has quickly become a big presense in this market, and for a good reason: it’s awesome. It’ll run on just about any hardware you have, and has even been ported to Solaris in the form of.

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Host Of the many great projects that use KVM, I chose. Here’s a few of the many reasons why: • It’s OSS licensed AGPLv3. • It’s based on Debian. • The management is all web-based & some CLI. • It supports QEMU & OpenVZ.

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• It supports OpenVSwitch. • It has a good community. • You can buy support if you want it.

Jun 2, 2012 - I would start by asking in the mailing lists of the communities - nobody knows what has been removed from the distribution better than its.

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I also checked out oVirt & plain KVM/libvirt on CentOS. OVirt was a bit too bloated for my tastes. KVM/libvirt on CentOS wasn’t web based, but I almost went with them because I could have ran virt-manager via ssh X forwarding. I liked the Proxmox project a bit better.

Storage My original plan was to stick with NexentaStor, but I ran into issues with that. KVM’s equivalent of vmxnet3 & vmscsi is called virtio. With KVM, if you want maximum performance, use virtio wherever possible. NexentaStor does not have virtio drivers, so I couldn’t set up a VM of NexentaStor unless I used IDE for storage & E1000 for net.

I was willing to compromise with E1000 for net, but IDE for storage wasn’t gonna work for me. My secondary plan didn’t really work out either. This plan was to use &. OmniOS is based on a newer kernel, and therefore, I was able to get virtio type disks working. 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.

It was cool to do, but kindof a PITA. However, it was for naught, because trying to do VT-d passthrough to the VM caused it to panic. Word on IRC in #omnios was it had something to do with the USB/PCI code in the kernel.

Sigh, back to the drawing board. The third option was FreeNAS.

Let me preface this by saying I will always pick Solaris/Illumos based storage first in the datacenter. A port of ZFS will always be second choice for me.

That said, the FreeNAS project is a very good one. They also recently picked up some major talent with, ex-Apple CTO. FreeBSD is alive & well, & still a big player in the ZFS community. Imagine my surprise when I found out that FreeNAS includes both disk & net virtio drivers by default. A quick install later, and I had my storage solution up & running.