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We officially announced our intention to delay VM support as part of the Q1 status update back in March. Since then, its important to note that TrueNAS pivoted their VM strategy again when they decided to drop Incus for traditional VMs and go back to their previous implementation with libvirt (as of 25.04.2). Due to all of this, we decided it would be best to restart the VM implementation in 2026 once development is finalized. I can see the confusion here, but we never promised all of these features would be delivered with the 1.0 release. Our focus on 1.0 is achieving platform stability. Furthermore, you're forgetting one pretty major feature that wasn't listed on the site: Local UI. This is the next feature we are focusing on after the Q3 release. Snapshots and Buddy Backups are still possibilities for this year, but likely would continue to carry the "beta" tag into 2026 to give more time for public testing. The Q3 update is nearly complete, which will carry some pretty big features including MULTIPLE new curated apps and folder support for Apple Time Machine/Quotas. Furthermore, we will have a new "Experimental Features" toggle that will enable users to create Encrypted folders as well as provide access to our new app templating/install scripts solution.

Looking forward to the Q3 release. Bring it on!

Hi all, Just seeking clarification here - the HexOS team have said they're still targeting V1.0 for release this year. A topic on Reddit has a response from the HexOS_Official user stating Can the team clarify when VM support is coming, as that was a major selling point for HexOS. Will V1.0 be launched without a major feature? I understand that 25.04 pushed back the release of VM features, but from the how I read the Q1 update (the last time this was spoken about, in March...) I took it to be that it was being done, just at a lower priority than the App support, but would still be coming this year. If I am looking at the HexOS website, we are currently at 3/6 of the below features. Even if they launch App deployment in the next few weeks for their Q3 update, I don't see how they are able to complete VMs, Buddy Backups & Snapshots in the next 3 months, which means they can't actually be targeting a 2025 release, but we've had no official word saying the release has been pushed back. The last word on this was from March 7th:

Is there a new roadmap or can we get a new road map? the one on the website is coming up on a year old.

I believe integrating Home Assistant with HexOS could be a game-changer for the operating system, offering functionality that is sorely lacking in almost all other OS platforms today. A Home Assistant integration would allow users to monitor and manage their NAS more effectively. Imagine being able to track critical metrics such as system uptime, array health, disk health checks, and the overall status of your storage systems — all from within Home Assistant. Furthermore, adding control features would significantly enhance the user experience. It would be fantastic if users could automate tasks like rebooting or stopping/starting applications, VMs, or containers directly through Home Assistant. Additionally, automating disk spin-downs during off-peak hours for power savings would be a powerful and eco-friendly feature. The potential of Home Assistant integration is vast, and it's difficult to fully capture all the possibilities in a single topic. However, the core idea is simple: having such an integration, with continuous updates and new features, would be a major advantage for HexOS. While most other operating systems either lack similar functionality or offer only basic, limited capabilities, HexOS could stand out by providing a more comprehensive, user-friendly, and flexible solution.

Is anyone directly associated with the HexOS app looking at the current review videos in youtube? They are auto-generated on mass from your front page and possibly other sources I can't find. It looks like you are working on a product quite different from what this forum page is describing. I think you are losing both a great advertising tool but also an opportunity to do a five to ten minute video on what is going on, upcoming releases, what third quarter actually means to the company and the like. Your last post with a little more fluff would have been perfect. Public service announcements like don't update TrueNAS beyond a certain point could be useful. I understand your knee jerk reaction to say it's too much work but I bet you could work miracles with something small like this. Maybe you could get someone from LTT to make an appearance to remind everyone why they have high hopes for the product overall. Be the way, what the heck is this video? It's your web page I think but what is this guy talking about? Someone must have gotten the scripts mixed up.

Fair point. We are planning to update the site for end of year with more content and details. I'll make sure this gets addressed. There are three types of issues that can exist for a given app: issues with the app itself (responsibility of the app developer), issues with the TrueNAS-cataloged container (responsibility of TrueNAS), and issues with the app curation itself (responsibility of HexOS). For issues with the app, if we can clearly identify the problem, we have no problem carrying the torch up to the app author to get proper visibility if required. For issues with the cataloged app in TrueNAS, we can escalate to TrueNAS directly for intervention if we can identify the root cause properly. For issues with the curation, we can quickly modify our curation using the new system to push out a fixes. We also will have a new docs site that will launch with the Q3 update explaining out the curation system works and how others can participate to help us fast-track the curation of other apps while we continue to work on core features.

To be fair to the developers, they aren't charging full price for it at the moment. The full intended price is $300 for a lifetime license. I just checked the website and it's still being sold for the beta pricing of $199.

Yeah, as mentioned in the post, I saw this. I just thought it meant instead of being early in 2025 it would be late 2025. I understand this, but your website only says "*Some features will not be immediately available upon beta release.". If you are launching the product and having people pay full price for it, you need to either update your website to remove the not available features, or update it to make it VERY clear that these are future state features and not applicable to the current state of the product. I am mostly excited for the new App Curation system, and to see how the team resolves the issues with the existing apps (Plex & Immich). I am cautiously optimistic about this update being the first time it feels like I will be using HexOS instead of TrueNAS.

Hi, i don't really know if it's possible or if it has been discussed earlier but is it possible for HexOS to display differents pcie cards information (like what card is in what slot) or direcly display the GPU informations like the usage the drivers etc a little like it is done with the cpu informations? I think it could be a great options for those who use gpu for transcoding or in VM... thank you all 😁

happy i could help

so out of the box it likely would not support both since there is only one full size pcie slot. I think there is an extra x4 pcie slot but it would like likely need some modification to allow larger devices to fit (or you need to purchase an adapter) and even then im not 100% if itll work or not. the 12600k works really well with plex specifically because of the optimizations intel made with intel quick sync. you likley don't need need a gpu.

Hi all. My $.02 is that there should be a way to echo or display the TrueNAS errors from within the HexOS management GUI. Basically, I have been trying to apply the new update(s) to my system, and it took me forever to realize that they were failing because I didn't assign enough space to my boot drive to download and unpack the update contents.

Personally, I'd vastly prefer that there was ONLY a local interface, and no centralized remote access to everyone's personal data. A remote interface can certainly be useful, but that isn't too difficult or technical to setup with something like tailscale. While I'm sure the HexOS team takes security and privacy very serious, imagine if there was ever a data breech at hexos that gave hackers/bad actors a list of all the home servers they could target, or worse a direct backdoor.

It would be useful in the dashboard if I could see a snapshot of users connected to services like SMB, NFS.

As the title says, I would like to get updates about HexOS in my RSS feed on Fresh RSS. Unless I'm blind, I don't see an RSS feed link.

Hey HexOS folks. I know a lot of us are feeling both frustrated about the pace of updates and hopeful about what's coming in the future for this platform. I have always been intimidated by platforms like UnRAID and TrueNAS - so this has been an opportunity for me to dip my toes into self-hosting. That said, the pace of communication from the team on the forum, Reddit, and elsewhere has been so very frustrating. The mods here are great and do what they can but we're not just here to get a product, I'm sure I speak for more than just myself in saying I'd love to see behind the curtain a little bit as an early adopter. Please, please, please consider this a priority, because idk about the rest of you but I can feel a fair bit of frustration starting to build here.

FYI. An update from Robbie on Nascompares https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybOVCqDSLVg

The whole purpose of a NAS to keep data secure and resilient to data loss. Currently there is no way to backup and restore applications. Application Backups/Restore should be plug-and-play. Thoughts: First party implementation Simple Application independent Backup and restore applications Granular restore/backup individual applications Restore applications even on a new Hexos system from backup End-user should be able to browse application data through a file explore Breakaway from ZFS mindset like snapshots (abstracted away behind an advanced menu) and give users a simple traditional backup and restore option.

Had already installed the HA app through truenas and ran into countless issues, it was unusable! plus had been so long since i'd not be running bare metal / HA OS that i completely forgot about the lack of Add ons and other key features, which was a another blocker. Thus what would be amazing is a 'One-Click' option for Home Assistant BUT the option to install either as: VM (HA OS) App (Container) That way, users have the choice, and could be presented with the pro's / con's of both up front!

Hey all, similar to what TrueNas offers out of the box as the multi-user Time Machine option, I would like to see Time Machine Backup support for macOS devices. This could be a special type of folder for that special purpose only where settings are locked in and only user access permissions can be set as with any other folder. Hope to see this implemented at some point together with a quick tutorial on how to set up the backup in macOS with automatic drive connection on system start and so on. Would make the whole process of setting it up very easy for everyone. That feature would make HexOS a real alternative to the mac mini as a home server for "all-in on apple" people. Please feel free to ask for clarification and add your ideas!

I know this is a request for a more 'One click' Hex TM integration, but incase people wanted to test this now, you can do this in Hex + TN today. (already had mine running a week without issue. TIME MACHINE INSTALL GUIDE Create a Folder & name it time machine (or a custom name) Set the Folder permissions (I left mine open, add user permissions here to restricted access) Navigate to the TrueNas UI (Server IP > Username: truenas_admin Pasword: server password from install) Navigate to the Shares tab, you should see your newly created share. Click on edit (pencil) On the Purpose drop down change to > Basic or multi user time machine. Press save/apply, and it'll prompt a restart of the SMB process. Go to your mac settings > general > Time machine. Click the + icon and locate your time machine share, then click setup disk. FYI if you aren't already connected to your Hex server, you'd need to do so now. Either search for the server in the network tab of finder OR connect to the server with finder > go > connect to server > SMB://[THE IP OF YOUR HEX SERVER] You can now choose to encrypt your backup with a password + if you choose, restrict the total disk usage the backup will have. You should now see your time machine backup setup. This will start automatically, but you can create a back up straight away if you choose. AUTO CONNECT SHARED DRIVE SETUP Now that could be it, but to ensure your Time machine backup will always occur, you need to ensure your Mac is always connected to your Hex server. to do this, we need to add the share to the login items Open Settings > general > Login items > click the + icon Locate your connected time machine share, then click open. You should now see the drive in the login items. That's it, you should be all setup and running.

I hope Home Assistant integration is pretty high on the 'To-Do' list given its prevalence in the community and seemingly frequent pairing with TrueNAS. It'd be my first request as far as home automation handling goes after some searching