FreeBSD on Hyper-V, and importing FreeNAS ZFS volumes/pools
I was using Windows Server 2012 R2, had FreeNAS running in a virtual machine with my 3 spinners passed through to it, and things were working well.
Friend gifted me Server 2016 for my birthday, so I went ahead formatted and reinstalled my host OS (VMs are on a different partition), imported the FreeNAS machine, and things seemed good and working.
Well that all went to hell when I stupidly decided to hit the Upgrade button in the FreeNAS web UI, and I quickly learned that installs of FreeNAS to a Server 2016 Hyper-V machine do not work - FreeNAS just doesn't communicate properly over the virtual network adapter. Or something like that; who knows what different thing in 2016 Hyper-V stops it from working with FreeNAS, unlike 2012 Hyper-V.
So, I thought I'd have some fun and experiment with getting FreeBSD installed onto a VM, and importing the ZFS drives - does that generally work (Hyper-V aside)?
Has anyone else been as dumb as me and tried something like this, or knows if FreeBSD can bring in FreeNAS's ZFS volumes with no problem? Any 'gotcha's?
Posted Jun 5, 2017, 10:35 AM UTC
It should be able too, you should also be able to revert back to your previous FreeNAS config when its booting select from the drop down the bottom option, I think its "adv boot options" or similar , and then pick the previous environment you used