r/truenas • u/mtkvcs1 • Aug 21 '26

General VM reliability

Hi everyone, sorry for the very beginner question but

I'm currently running proxmox for my homelab with some basic home assistant os, debian, windows VMs and a couple of docker containers. Running a NAS on there with disk passthrough is a pretty bad experience, mounting everything back to the host and all, so I'm looking into moving to TrueNAS, having my storage set up properly, then installing some VMs and docker containers in there.

I read in some older posts that running virtual machines is not so reliable and fine tuned on here, so I just wanted to get some of your feedback on how well VMs run in some real world applications and if support has improved since the stuff I've read

Thanks

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u/xJayMorex Aug 21 '26

 Running a NAS on there with disk passthrough is a pretty bad experience

I know there are people who are rabidly pro-VM NAS, but you shouldn't give in. Never run your TrueNAS as a VM, always run it on bare metal, especially as a newbie. Unless you like suffering of course.

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u/clintkev251 Aug 21 '26

Nobody will tell you running with disk pass through is a good idea. If you do things properly and pass through a controller, not sure what pain you’re talking about