Setup an NFS or CIFS server on the host, share out your storage directory - connect your guest to the share via samba or nfs client for your guest. Server - install samba server and use webmin to create a fully writable share to everyone. Client - connect to share via samba client if linux or networ...

Sorry for my very late reply - I have just now seen this. ECC Ram while nice in a home environment probably won't hurt if you don't have it. There are many discussions - specifically on the freenas boards wherw a particular zealot, I think his handle is cyberjerk or something like that ;) where you'...

I run Ubuntu Server 14.04.3 with ZFS on 8 3TB Drives setup in a RAID 10 Mirror. I can tell you that KVM Performance is very good using virtio drivers for storage and network on either a .raw or .qcow2 vm file. I use writeback and lz4 compression on the file - ensure you have some sort of UPS if you'...