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We do not intend on making everything that you can configure via TrueNAS directly configurable using our UI, but we do want users to be able to use the TN UI to create a custom storage pool that we then adopt for management.

Correct. The local UI is one of the last pieces we will deliver before marking it 1.0.

New blog post up today providing a status update on HexOS! https://hexos.com/blog/hexos-q1-status-update

Just wanted to provide a quick update on this feature in particular. We are going to try to add this in for Q1 along with a few other big updates to be announced soon.

Correct. No updates to the ISO just yet.

Yeah I to am curious about this.

Working on quite a few big items right now including pool and location customization. 😉

I am working on a blog post update that will share more plans and roadmap changes.

That's on me. I've been highly distracted this past month with a lot of administrative work. That's starting to wrap up and I will be dumping a lot more of my time into communications.

We had a short outage earlier today that has since been resolved.

We have no plans to support Active Directory directly through our UI at this time. Users who want AD support should probably be using native TrueNAS as permissions management won’t be the same once AD is introduced.

I just searched our support inbox (both forums & email) and didn't find any messages from you. Not sure what went wrong as we are still receiving messages from others, but I am processing your refund right now and it should reach your account in the next 5-7 business days.

Hey @luke9912, I'm sending you a DM now to verify if your reply-to email address is the problem.

@Theo @Dylan Very aware that Plex isn't "perfect" just yet. We definitely have some work ahead of us because there are some issues with performance, transcoding, and networking that need to be addressed. We are definitely going to be revising the Plex one-click deployment and should be able to address a lot if not all of these issues.

Sincerest apologies everyone. This is taking longer than it should. Hope to have this resolved shortly.

In all seriousness, it doesn’t go past any of us here at Eshtek on how much you guys are doing here and helping us and this community. We greatly appreciate it.

We just put in an order for 5 that we should get some time in March I think. These things look awesome. Glad to hear you're liking yours so much!!

I definitely feel you on this. I simply ask for a little grace and patience with us in Q1. We were a 2-person organization not but 45 days ago and have already over doubled our headcount with additional hires on the way. Ramping up new team members takes time and our entire roadmap is shifting based on the level of investment we have received from customers. Providing a more comprehensive roadmap with estimates on delivery of functionality is definitely something we are going to do, but predicting how fast we can deliver with a substantially larger team while we're still ramping up isn't really tenable. We also have plans to hire a community manager this year, which will also greatly help with communications.

Exactly! It's one of the reasons I want to build a comprehensive hardware database for HexOS (obviously opt-in). There are a lot of details with hardware that aren't exposed when buying that we could start to map for folks who took the plunge without the insights. Boot up, run a little scan of how the IOMMU groups layout, what happens when you try to pass through a GPU, etc. and then create a filterable database for users to search and get more details. So many ways to improve UX here beyond just the software.

QFT! VFIO and specifically GPU pass through has been a major focus of mine for almost a decade of my career. VFIO is awesome, but a lot of hardware is just not built with it in mind. For example, when you shut down a VM, you're not really shutting down any hardware. But a lot of GPU vendors didn't bother to put a reset mechanism into the GPU because the reset would be a full shutdown or reboot of the physical hardware. So when you go to start a VM back up with a GPU like that, it just hangs or doesn't initialize the display. Not sure how prevalent that is today, but between 2014-2022, I remember it being all too common. Thankfully projects like this one (vendor-reset) have added a plethora of quirks that help overcome this for troublesome equipment, but it's not a silver bullet. Other complications can arise just by turning on the IOMMU setting in the BIOS. I remember there was a time where if you had a Marvell storage controller and you just turned IOMMU on, the whole host would crash. Not sure if that's still the case in 2025 with more modern stuff, but it wouldn't surprise me if there aren't still some examples of that out there. Bottom line: I don't think most hardware manufacturers fully test virtualization (especially IOMMU) on consumer-grade electronics. So "your mileage may vary" is an appropriate statement here. I swear I could write a novel about VFIO, GPU pass through, and IOMMU groups...

We can do that, but our use-case for internal dev/testing of UI/UX/Deck is a little unique. We will use fully virtual storage devices for all of this, which means we're not going to be doing testing in this environment against hardware issues with storage devices. We test storage device failures/replacements/expansions mainly with dedicated physical hardware. That said, it would be possible for us to pass through the entire storage controller to VMs for a more native experience. Might need to ping Tom Lawrence for some advice on this setup 😉

I love this idea and wonder if there is an API we could attach to that would let us report the power usage through our UI to avoid needing another app. Definitely stickying this for the future.

We are actually building a Proxmox setup to run multiple HexOS VMs for additional developers we are hiring (for access to dev/test). We're actually newbies at Proxmox, but it looks pretty straightforward!