daniel.jozsef wrote:… trouble making the drives accessible to a virtualized environment (Virtualbox) …
A disk that is given to ZEVO Community Edition 1.1.1 can not be used with a VirtualBoxVM on the same host computer. The pool can be exported, but with ZEVO: the physical disk remains in use by the host. In Disk Utility, for example: whilst ejects are apparently logged as successful, the disk and its zfs_pool_proxy counterpart persist.
Whilst used exclusively by the host:
- a device can not be used by the guest (by the VirtualBoxVM).
Example: a VirtualBoxVM unable to make the USB connection for an OpenIndiana guest.
Possible workarounds
To disable some of the dynamic behaviours that are expected by Mac users: temporarily set aside one of the KEXTs for ZEVO.
Fixes: thoughts
A future version of the ZEVO pane of System Preferences might include an option, enabled by default:
[*] Dynamic devices
– or words to that effect, whatever will be most user-friendly.
Disabling that option should allow devices to be used by virtual machines.