I, like many people, use the VirtualBox template jail on Freenas. I’ve been using this for about a year to run Crashplan. It’s generally worked good, but the last couple of 9.10 maintenance updates have caused some problems (ex: The virtual machine ‘xxxx’ has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1). See here for more on how 9.10.2 broke the VirtualBox template.

From what I’ve been able to read on the Freenas forums, this isn’t going to get fixed and you have two options. Don’t upgrade and keep using VirtualBox or upgrade and use Bhyve. Since I only have one VM and it’s pretty simple, I opted for the latter solution. This post is going to cover the steps that I had to do to convert from using VirtualBox to using Bhyve and iohyve without reinstalling the VM OS.

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