[Running drive pool / media file server on a VM]

Thanks for the replies. Got everything up and running and so far so good.

[Running drive pool / media file server on a VM]

I am in the process of building a new desktop which was going to serve two purposes. I was planning to use it as an everyday PC and for light gaming. I also built it beefy enough to run a VM that would run a windows VM which would have drive pool and some other tools which would serve as my file / steaming server. This VM a old very basic PC I had crammed a bunch of hard drives in to be just a file server.

 

My questions are

 

1) can I safely run drive pool in a VM?

 

2) I planned on passing the disks through to the VM (using Hyper-V), is there any issues with that?

 

3) Assuming this approach will work are there any major performance issues I should be aware of before going with this setup?

 

Thanks in advance,

Ken