--- title: I turned this NAS into a Proxmox home server, and... description: A home labber shares their experience running TrueNAS as a VM inside Proxmox on a TerraMaster F4-425 Pro NAS. Rather than choosing between Proxmox's... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/i-turned-this-nas-into-a-proxmox-home-server-and-truenas-inside-a-vm-solved-my-biggest-storage-prob-fw4za7urp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I turned this NAS into a Proxmox home server, and TrueNAS inside a VM solved my biggest storage problem | daily.dev og:description: A home labber shares their experience running TrueNAS as a VM inside Proxmox on a TerraMaster F4-425 Pro NAS. Rather than choosing between Proxmox's... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-turned-this-nas-into-a-proxmox-home-server-and-truenas-inside-a-vm-solved-my-biggest-storage-prob-fw4za7urp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fW4Za7Urp.png og:image:alt: I turned this NAS into a Proxmox home server, and TrueNAS inside a VM solved my biggest storage problem og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I turned this NAS into a Proxmox home server, and TrueNAS inside a VM solved my biggest storage problem **[XDA Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/xda-developers)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A home labber shares their experience running TrueNAS as a VM inside Proxmox on a TerraMaster F4-425 Pro NAS. Rather than choosing between Proxmox's flexibility and TrueNAS's ZFS data protection, they combined both by passing the SATA controller directly to the TrueNAS VM using VFIO/IOMMU. The post covers the specific GRUB and kernel module configuration steps needed, explains why disk passthrough is inferior to full SATA controller passthrough for ZFS, and reports stable real-world performance after several weeks of use. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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