Truenas Scale Virtualbox May 2026

| Workload | KVM (native) | VirtualBox on SCALE | |----------|--------------|----------------------| | | 100% baseline | 88% | | Disk I/O (fio randread) | 320 MB/s | 245 MB/s | | Network (iperf3) | 9.4 Gbps | 8.1 Gbps | | Snapshot creation (ZFS) | 0.2 sec | 3.4 sec (VBoxManage) |

| Feature | KVM | VirtualBox | |---------|-----|------------| | TrueNAS UI Management | Yes | No | | ZFS Snapshot Integration | Native (libvirt) | Manual | | PCIe Passthrough | Yes (VFIO) | Limited | | Open Source License | GPLv2 | GPLv2 (core) + PUEL (extras) | truenas scale virtualbox

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#!/bin/bash # vbox_on_scale.sh - Use only for testing set -e apt update apt install -y linux-headers-$(uname -r) dkms wget wget -O /tmp/vbox.deb https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/7.0.14/virtualbox-7.0_7.0.14-161095_Debian_bookworm_amd64.deb dpkg -i /tmp/vbox.deb || apt --fix-broken install -y modprobe vboxdrv echo "VirtualBox installed. Run 'VBoxManage list vms' to verify." | Workload | KVM (native) | VirtualBox on