FreeNAS under VBox with physical drives

Hi guys,

Was just wondering if its possible to have FreeNAS in VBox and have the physical drives passthrough to the VM.

Ill be running windows 7, and getting harddrives specifically for a NAS build, but wondering if this kinda setup would work instead of building a dedicated NAS box. Obviously, the extra budget that i have from what i would have spent in the NAS box can be pumped into the pc build to make up for the performance hit that this might have.

Thanks!

will it work?
yes
is it smart?
no

Thanks bro, i guess ill build a NAS box then.

Can't you just run virtual machines under freeNAS?

yup

what's your budget?

Around $600 for the NAS

Probably going to want a G3258 with ECC then