After Upgrade from CE to + VMXnet3 VLAN causes Crash
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Hi All,
After upgrading from the latest CE edition to plus after the installation successfully completes the VM never comes back.
After some investigation it seems that when e1000 NICS are used there is no issue. When using VMXNET3 adapters with VLANs the VM fails to boot, this is not a problem using the CE version.
Any ideas ?
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Turns out its not VLANs but using VMXNET3 adapters in general.
This makes Pfsense + unusable with VMWare
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What version of VMware are you using? There was an incompatibility problem between newer FreeBSD versions and earlier versions of ESXi (such as the 5.x series) when using the VMXNET3 adapter. That problem was resolved for me by updating to the 6.x ESXi version series. I am currently running 6.7-U3 because of limitations with my host hardware.
pfSense 2.6 CE uses FreeBSD 12.3-STABLE. pfSense 2.7 CE Snapshots and pfSense Plus 23.05 are both running on FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT.
If you are running an older VMware version, I suggest updating to the most recent version and also making sure your VM tools software client is current on the pfSense virtual machine.
