Dunno... Just doesn't work. That's what I was trying before, but if it can't see anything, there's not much I can do.





Nothing shows up.

Mind you, I'm running it inside of VMware... Need to check it out first...

So, yeah, it is looking that difficult from where I'm standing.

If you already have VMWare...why?

For testing purposes, I reckon. Dunno if it's smart to test a hypervisor on anything but bare metal, though (could be enough to test the install & setup procedure, but definitely not for testing actually running stuff on it).

I don't know^* if you know but the Microserver is capable of running ESXi 5.1 with 2 or 3 VMs, (given a bit more RAM) - quite a few reports of people doing it.

If you want to have a play with it, you could remove your existing HDDs and plug in a temp storage HDD, plug a flash drive into the internal USB connector and install ESXi on it.

ESXi 5.1 for it can be downloaded from here.

You could conceivably run your FreeNAS within a VM on it as well as another 1 or 2 VMs.  Won't be suitable for playing games but it might be for some low powered or long time frame work.

Just an idea.



^* Does this fulfill the "Tell me something you don't know..." ?