From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 27 17:39:38 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6BD78957 for ; Wed, 27 May 2015 17:39:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@pki2.com) Received: from btw.pki2.com (btw.pki2.com [IPv6:2001:470:a:6fd::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 15A0FAD6 for ; Wed, 27 May 2015 17:39:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@pki2.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by btw.pki2.com (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id t4RHdOfr064023; Wed, 27 May 2015 10:39:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@pki2.com) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.1 btw.pki2.com t4RHdOfr064023 Authentication-Results: btw.pki2.com; dmarc=none header.from=pki2.com DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=pki2.com; s=pki2; t=1432748364; bh=zn6tptdKkNmnJNDifcEFONuvIXwSLJoHTmy+pVK0G44=; h=Subject:From:To:Cc:Date:In-Reply-To:References; z=Subject:=20Re:=20ZFS=20in=20a=20VM?|From:=20Dennis=20Glatting=20< freebsd@pki2.com>|To:=20Jaime=20Kikpole=20|Cc:=20"freebsd-questions@freebsd.org"=20|Date:=20Wed,=2027=20May=202015=2010:39:24=20-0700|In-Repl y-To:=20|References:=20=0D=0A=09; b=jLhn4DnNJ+vXOiErks9emRP2aUiJDmQzhn5cawtRvaJbMBnqGlp3E1QjRY2RCfba7 V/XgIknUnVLIST1JpeRTzQrFwsFmUyFt6QgCFPzTHHuwo6suzowGiA1MHdDV1Bo5Q8 Bcr7BPUueKQOF6DbMzuIBqqVne5ItXW16SQ/SVmWod5ngk/Lp6cUYvROMnn/EyKmvi Fi6ZAINJyLNi1uAqxCuQdOcy5cxg5R5p2eDkg7KnNMWE3mxChc2qPaK74jOeeKlEBZ Yprv2qL+BQgMBQQjKPjRmYGFz9nxwB2A6kHbCKtXQqO5KV97ij+wAOI5qLZxuTi/TQ A0XmS9PB4EQww== Message-ID: <1432748364.72563.20.camel@pki2.com> Subject: Re: ZFS in a VM? From: Dennis Glatting To: Jaime Kikpole Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 10:39:24 -0700 In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.11 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SoftwareMunitions-MailScanner-Information: Dennis Glatting X-SoftwareMunitions-MailScanner-ID: t4RHdOfr064023 X-SoftwareMunitions-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: freebsd@pki2.com X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 17:39:38 -0000 On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 13:31 -0400, Jaime Kikpole wrote: > Can I run a FreeBSD system in a virtual machine and use ZFS? The VM > environment is a commercial system based on Linux's KVM, if that > matters. > I know a guy who did this but it was kind of sleazy. He wasn't talking to the disks themselves rather to a file/block device created under VMWare then attached to the VM. To VMWare it was a file on the disk. To the VM is was a disk. Not a lot of value there. > -- > Jaime Kikpole > Network Administrator > Cairo-Durham Central School District > > Technical Support: > help@cairodurham.org > go.cairodurham.org/techtips >