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    2.8.0-BETA snapshots are now available

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      netblues @michmoor
      last edited by netblues

      pfsense 2.8 ce beta fails to boot in kvm virtualised environments under kvm with virtio devices

      Make sure you have snapshots before testing.

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        That's only if you're running virtio-modern PCIe devices. virtio-legacy (Proxmox) works as expected.

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        • chpalmerC
          chpalmer
          last edited by

          Mostly successful upgrade for my Watchguard XTM5 "test box"

          Anything unsuccessful was self inflicted.. ;) Make sure you have access to the box in case your Wireguard instance does not come up should you be using one.. (luckily mine is in the same rack as my primary box.)

          ;)

          Triggering snowflakes one by one..
          Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590T CPU @ 2.00GHz on an M400 WG box.

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          • patient0P
            patient0
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            Did an upgrade of a VM on Proxmox from CE 2.7.2 with UEFI with a root disk of only 6GB of which 3.2GB where free before the upgrade. And it when smooth.

            I actually did it twice, once with a serial port device and once without. Upgrade worked with both configurations.

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              netblues @patient0
              last edited by

              @patient0 proxmox seems to use legacy virtio and works.
              Redhat and derivatives seem to be different

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                patient0 @netblues
                last edited by

                @netblues said in 2.8.0-BETA snapshots are now available:

                @patient0 proxmox seems to use legacy virtio and works.
                Redhat and derivatives seem to be different

                You are right, I do follow your thread about the issue you got.

                Just wanted to give feedback of a situation where it does work.

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                  Popolou
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                  You guys at Netgate do like flying close to the sun what with the mini-fits caused by last year's April Fools ๐Ÿ˜Š

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                    nimrod @Popolou
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                    @Popolou

                    All future ce releases should target April 1st as a release date. I just love Netgate trolling. The amount of salty comments afterwards is just amazing.

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                      Popolou
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                      I suppose it's only fair, we troll them and they gaslight us in return ๐Ÿ˜

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                      • fireodoF
                        fireodo @patient0
                        last edited by fireodo

                        @patient0 said in 2.8.0-BETA snapshots are now available:

                        I actually did it twice, once with a serial port device and once without. Upgrade worked with both configurations.

                        Can you say something about the dashboard cpu load? Is that better now?

                        Kettop Mi4300YL CPU: i5-4300Y @ 1.60GHz RAM: 8GB Ethernet Ports: 4
                        SSD: SanDisk pSSD-S2 16GB (ZFS) WiFi: WLE200NX
                        pfsense 2.8.0 CE
                        Packages: Apcupsd, Cron, Iftop, Iperf, LCDproc, Nmap, pfBlockerNG, RRD_Summary, Shellcmd, Snort, Speedtest, System_Patches.

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                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                          last edited by

                          2.8 is branched at the same point as 25.03 so it should have the same improvements that does. Of course it will be harder to see because 2.7.2 still used the old refresh method.

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                            fireodo @stephenw10
                            last edited by

                            @stephenw10 said in 2.8.0-BETA snapshots are now available:

                            2.8 is branched at the same point as 25.03 so it should have the same improvements that does. Of course it will be harder to see because 2.7.2 still used the old refresh method.

                            Thanks. On my Lab machine (APU2C0) under 24.11 the problem still persists despite of all patches ... :-(

                            Kettop Mi4300YL CPU: i5-4300Y @ 1.60GHz RAM: 8GB Ethernet Ports: 4
                            SSD: SanDisk pSSD-S2 16GB (ZFS) WiFi: WLE200NX
                            pfsense 2.8.0 CE
                            Packages: Apcupsd, Cron, Iftop, Iperf, LCDproc, Nmap, pfBlockerNG, RRD_Summary, Shellcmd, Snort, Speedtest, System_Patches.

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                            • LHoustL
                              LHoust
                              last edited by

                              After using the RC1 Network Installer with my Zimaboard 432 (Dual 10Gtek NIC), I had to reassign the WAN Interface: Following the reboot, the WAN had been re-assigned to an Onboard Realtek NIC.

                              On the First Restore of my 2.7.2 Config, there were NO Packages Available and the BETA had rebuild its list of Packages. For the Second attempt: All Packages were Available and those which my Config Required, were successfully Downloaded in the Background...

                              Although it has only been couple of days, so far I had NOT Noticed any Problems with this BETA running my 2.7.2 Config???

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                              • stephenw10S
                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                last edited by

                                Hmm, so at first boot after a clean install the WAN had been auto-assigned to re0? Was the LAN also assigned to re1?

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                                • LHoustL
                                  LHoust
                                  last edited by LHoust

                                  Actually LAN was still assigned to igb1.

                                  All of which I found a bit "Strange", since igb0 had just been used to complete the Network Installation before the reboot!

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                                    mikey_s
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                                    Just upgraded a spare XG 230 Rev2 from pfsense 2.7.2 to version 2.8. Will have a further look in due course. It's a generic install that has been upgraded.

                                    One observation, QAT is now list in the drop down list for Cryptographic Hardware under advanced settings? Was this added? I have other hardware with QAT on the CPU, so could be interested in getting pfsense CE on that.

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                                    • stephenw10S
                                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                      last edited by

                                      Depends what CPU that has but QAT support was added upstream so...

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                                        mikey_s @stephenw10
                                        last edited by mikey_s

                                        @stephenw10 Many thanks and good to hear it's come from upstream.

                                        Test box atm doesn't have QAT capable CPU, XG 230 Rev 2 with an Intel G4400.

                                        My other boxes is a XG135 Rev 3 with a Intel Atom C3558 and that has QAT on the CPU. They've currently got XG Home and another pfsense install.

                                        I have a restore from a plus instance to use.

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                                          matthijs
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                                          I am a bit stubborn, so I made a snapshot (Proxmox VM) and did the upgrade with the following packages installed: acme,cron,haproxy,iperf,notes,openvpn-client-export-pfblockerng,service_watchdog,shellcmd,system_pathces
                                          Also no pre reboot

                                          After the upgrade everything seems to work perfectly fine,no issues so far (I will inform here if I encounter issues)

                                          Thank you very much for all the work making this new CE release

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                                            FCS001FCS
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                                            I did a fresh install of CE 2.8 Beta on a bare metal mini-PC with an Intel N5105 via the NetGate Installer and all seem to work OK.

                                            I wanted to transition to KEA DCHP and that also seems to work well as the static IP reservations are working as best as I can tell.

                                            I have 2 Unifi USW Flex Mini switches that I test a few VLANs on and I had to find a way to get the DCHP-Option 43 working in KEA DCHP as that is the only way for these basic managed switches (no SSH) to find the Unifi Controller on another sub-net. Many thanks to @Gertjan for the help and my solution is described in NetGate forum link.

                                            I also installed TailScale and pfBlockerNG and they also seem to work fine, at least on this small home-lab test mini-PC.

                                            Overall, I am very pleased with the CE 2.8 Beta and I am looking forward to upgrading my main home pfSense system once CE 2.8 gets out of Beta.

                                            Thanks to all the developers for all their hard work on pfSense.

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