Ahh, I don't have the hardware to run zfs in a VM, for home I run a big zfs array on bare metal and also host some vms next to it. If I were running zfs in a VM

Ahh, I don't have the hardware to run zfs in a VM, for home I run a big zfs array on bare metal and also host some vms next to it. If I were running zfs in a VM itself I would be more open to freenas. Maintaining freenas and trying to run some other virtualized apps next to it was not good for me.