Moving to VMWare

fredriksimon · Oct 5, 2010, 11:27 AM

I have a working pfSense 2.0 setup running on a server. Now I want to change server and on the new server I will run ESXi so I need to convert my running config to a vmware image. But everything I have tried has failed.

Tried to use the VMWare standalone converter. Failed because pfSense/FreeBSD can't run linux binaries. Next thought was to take a image dump of the drive with dump. This fails because mksync_ffs isn't installed.

Some one has another thought?

/Fredrik

Supermule · Oct 5, 2010, 11:29 AM

Fresh install on the ESXi with the interfaces setup correctly. Then you just import the config from your running server….:)

danswartz · Oct 5, 2010, 12:10 PM

Bingo. Exactly what I did :)

Supermule · Oct 5, 2010, 12:48 PM

Notice that your NIC names can be other than what you are using now.

fredriksimon · Oct 6, 2010, 10:49 AM

Thanks, worked like a charm. Put then i moved the mail server from the dmz-server vmware converter failed… But thats another story.

/Fredrik