Another +1 for a native FreeBSD Roon
And yet another vote for freebsd/freenas native roonserver. I have it working pretty well in a vm, but I would prefer the stability of a native version.
Iāll add a +1 here too. AFAIK mono exists on FreeBSD, hopefully it is just a recompileā¦
That said, I am under no illusions about how many people this would be useful forā¦
EDIT: So I think Iāve said something silly here. AFAICT the āLinuxā version of Roon is actually a windows executable and a linux version of monoā¦ This suggests that if mono on FreeBSD has the right bits, this is a packaging issue rather than a build issue. If that is the case, then we donāt need a FreeBSD portā¦ I will dig deeper when I have the time.
Okay I did some poking around, and it is possible to get the binary to execute using the FreeBSD version of mono. Unfortunately there are some compiled libraries (libbase.so, libleveldb.so and libroonbase.so), so it isnāt 100% mono. This is obviously a blocker, weād need a BSD build of these libraries. And this means when RoonServer.exe tries to load them, it fails.
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Thanks for looking into this. Iād like to stick Roon on my FreeNAS box, but as this isnāt possible, Iāve been using ROCK on a NUC and itās been 100% reliable for me, so I think Iāll probably stick with my current setup now because it just works 
I am in the process of replacing my QNAP with a FreeNAS box, so Iām in the same boat, although I donāt have budget for a dedicated Roon NUC at the moment.
I tried various things to get Roon working via Linux emulation support in BSD, but it always seems to crash out in a manner that suggests a problem in the mono layerā¦ even if I do a fresh install of mono from a linux package (rpm) it still isnāt happy. Using FreeBSD native mono gets further (but is still blocked due to the handful of linux only shared objects).
At this point I will be using a Tiny Core linux VM, which I have down to a very small, light size.
So we need ports of those shared objectsā¦
Is it any Idea to run Roonserver on FreeBSD 12.0 ?
Please somebody make step by step guide how to run roonserver on FreeBSD 12.0 with Virtual Machine
I am newbie on FreeBSD,migrated from Linux. My HW spec is able to run FreeBSD 12.0.
I am able pay for guide via paypal some euros but must 100% work.
Take a look at HOWTO: Debian Installation on FreNAS (bhyve) I wrote a while back but should work on FreeBSD, FreeNAS runs on OpenBSD or FreeBSD, canāt remember which.
Another +1 for a native FreeBSD Roon!
And a +1 from me, too. Iād love to see a natively packaged Roon server on FreeBSD.
FreeNas definitely runs on top of FreeBsd, they have to track FreeBSD releases, currently they are on FreeNAS-11.2-U2.1. In one of my freenas jails, freebsd-version reports ā11.2-RELEASE-p4ā
+1 for FreeNAS plugin. I have used Plex on FreeNAS for a few years and it does most of what I want. I currently donāt subscribe to Roon, but would if a plugin to FreeNAS were developed. I have no intention of abandoning my (relatively) powerful and sizable storage FreeNAS machine for a stand alone Roon server or set up a custom NUC. Why would anybody really?
Perhaps there arenāt enough FreeNAS users to make it financially worthwhile?
+1 here. Right now, I use @pwright92ās Debian VM solution (thanks, @pwright92!) , but it would be great to be in a jail instead.
Another +1 for a native FreeBSD Roon!
+1 here. I use, as many of us, @pwright92ās Debian VM solution, but itās not clean thing. It will be really nice to have it integrated:)
+1, I am also a Freenas user, would be great to be able to run Roon on that machine.
I would like a FreeBsd port of the Roon software so I can install Roon inside a jail (iocage) running on FreeNas 11.2.
FreeNas 11.2 has a feature called āPluginsā that they maintain and upgrade frequently, basically plugins are natively packaged freebsd iocage ācontainers-liteā which the freeNas UI allows the end-user to install, delete, stop, start, etc. Iocage makes it easy to have multiple jails running concurrently, such as RoonServer Core . The FreeNas UI also allows a user to define which NAS shares are mounted in which jail. For example, all your music files for RoonServer Core.
Porting your server software to FreeBSD would open up your potential user community to all users that have installed FreeNas 11.2.
I also would love to see a FreeNAS port - currently Iām successfully using Roon Core in a Debian VM on FreeNAS
well, it would be a FreeBSD port (Freebsd is a supported platform for Mono) and some FreeNas Plugin packaging. Some porting of native compiled libraries would be required, too, as @ascl noticed when he attempted to run it himself under FreeBsd.