Well, technically, FreeBSD will be the hypervisor host. Anyhow, starting with FreeNAS 10 (which leverages FreeBSD 10), Bhyve (part of FreeBSD 10) is available as a hypervisor. The guy running FreeNAS stated at the end of his "State of the Union" youtube video on FreeNAS that FreeNAS 10 will have Bhyve for doing VM's.
So, when that day arrives, does that mean that if I were to choose Bhyve instead of ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-V as the hypervisor, then all the angst that currently exists around passing drives to FreeNAS using VT-D or as raw disks or whatever will finally be behind us? i.e. VM's can at last access properly managed ZFS storage via iSCSI or the like without all the usual bolded-and-underlined warnings about the configuration being "experimental-only" and "not for production"?
So, when that day arrives, does that mean that if I were to choose Bhyve instead of ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-V as the hypervisor, then all the angst that currently exists around passing drives to FreeNAS using VT-D or as raw disks or whatever will finally be behind us? i.e. VM's can at last access properly managed ZFS storage via iSCSI or the like without all the usual bolded-and-underlined warnings about the configuration being "experimental-only" and "not for production"?
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