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FreeNAS' virtual machine utilites are still very limited and while additions are being made most will find that getting a VM setup and running can be tricky when compared to say Virtualbox. This tutorial is just a quick overview of what I needed to do to get Windows 10 LE up an running on FreeNAS.
Creating the install image
Windows 10 LE is a lightweight version of Windows 10. I downloaded my copy here.
Next we need to be able to boot from this image in UEFI. I found that I was unable to do this with the downloaded image however after a lot of research I came accross this post here. The process while clunky did produce an image that was UEFI bootable on FreeNAS.
All that is required to perform this conversion is Rufus, mkisofs and a thumb drive large enough for the Windows 10 image.
- Using Rufus create a bootable usb drive using the Window 10 image.
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Using mkisofs create a UEFI bootable Windows 10 LE image. inputdir will be the drive letter corresponding to your usb drive and outputiso will be the save name and location of the created iso
set inputdir=D:\ set outputiso=C:\WINDOWS10LE.iso set label="WINDOWS10_LE_UEFI" set biosboot=Boot/etfsboot.com set efiboot=efi/microsoft/boot/efisys.bin mkisofs -iso-level 4 -l -R -UDF -D -volid %label% -b %biosboot% -no-emul-boot \ -boot-load-size 8 -hide boot.catalog -eltorito-alt-boot -eltorito-platform efi \ -no-emul-boot -b %efiboot% -o %outputiso% %inputdir%
Congratulations! You now have a Windows 10 LE image that is bootable in a FreeNAS virtual machine. Next lets get to installing it.
Setting up the virtual machine
This part is pretty streamlined in newer versions of FreeNAS with everything being done from the GUI.
The details of my VM configuration are listed here.
I wouldn't recommend using a disk smaller than 17GB.