PfSense on Hyper-V - applying reboot-patch
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Hey guys,
just changed our firewall from monowall to pfsense and we have to say: we are very impressed, great job guys!!
Only one tiny-little-thing:
When running pfSense within Hyper-V you can not stop the machine correctly.
A possible Workaround: powershell-command (> Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\virtualization msvm_computersystem | Format-Table ElementName, ProcessId) + powershell-command (kill ID).
I found some russian guy who published a manual how to patch the freeBSD-Kernel to fix this:
http://blogs.technet.com/abeshkov/archive/2008/12/15/3169299.aspx
Here go the commands:
cd /tmp
wget http://shell.peach.ne.jp/~aoyama/wordpress/download/fbs71-200809-hvpatch.bz2
cd /usr/src/
bzcat < /path/to/fbs71-200809-hv.patch.bz2 | patch -p1
make buildkernel
make installkernel
shutdown -r now
My problem: /usr/src is not in the installation-iso within pfsense - i do not want to play around with new kernel sources, so, my questions is:
- where do i get your kernel to patch it myself
- can't you patch your kernel with this patch so that hyper-v is happy and plays with pfsense? ;)
Thank you,
onestone -
anybody?
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There is already a post relating to this under the Virtulisation section of the forum dating back to October 8th 2008,
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,12157.0.html
There would appear to be no dev's willing to help out in fixing this. I could donate a valid M$ 2008 key to any dev's wishing to give it a go!
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There is a discussion going on about this in freebsd-hackers@ and this doesn't seem like a bug is a meter of a workaround for Hyper-V.
Lets where it ends and if a patch will be commited. -
I'd also greatly appreciate it if this was implemented. I'm in strictly MS environement going from Virtual PC/Virtual Server to Hyper-V. I've used m0n0wall before, but (as expected) it doesn't even begin to start under Hyper-V. pfSense is so very close apart from this issue.
I've talked to a number of people that are in the same situation…we need a good firewall, router for testing/production use under Hyper-V and I'd be very happy if pfSense would be the one (I've tried the latest 2.0 Alpha Snapshots and it remains unchanged there).
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We have it working under Hyper-V for a couple of clients.
The trick is to use the emulated network card.
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DimitriRodis could you please provide additional details. Which version are you using, do you have it installed on a HDD or are you using a LiveCD. Are you able to restart/shut it down without it hanging?
I'm naturally also using the Legacy Network adapters…is that what you mean by "emulated network card"?
Any information would be greatly appreciated.
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We have it working under Hyper-V for a couple of clients.
The trick is to use the emulated network card.
No one is saying they can't get it working, its trouble stopping it working we are having :P
Again this should really be in the Virtulisation section of the forum.
