hmm, foggy brain and my indecision is hampering me, sorry.
I'm used to the client for 5.5, so 6.7 is very new to me and a fresh install. any method will work. Ideally, a 10Gb connections would be very nice just for this - but I don't have it. Anything more direct is better than indirect. OVA - napp-it? or FreeNAS? I should have both available. Just need to get running.
p.s. - biting the bullet and going to try the All-in-one Napp-it OVA with OmniOS CE
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OK, dumb question, how to get the various NICs as inbound and outbound.. The NIC naming is all over the place. The two onboard NICs are at extremes in the naming.. I have [whitey's] 6-port LAN card installed as well.
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edited the Napp-It configuration, bumped up the CPUs from 1 to 4, the RAM from 3GB up to 32GB, then down to 16GB, 8GB, 4GB, and 3GB... fails due to memory allocation error? or it doesn't like passing through the HBAs?!?
OK, got to have reserved memory for pass-through to work.. VM still not powering on.
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ok, this is not going well... using the LSI 2008 9210-8i HBA cards thaat I got from Whitey.. do I need to update the firmware? tried 6.7 and 6.5U2, VM boots fine without HBA passthrough.. as soon as it's enabled and added, the VM fails to boot, fail to even power up.. one error suggests the PCIPassthoughID is not properly set, another suggestion is that the memory reservation is improperly configured, or locked.. ??