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    Moving to VMWare

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved 2.0-RC Snapshot Feedback and Problems - RETIRED
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      fredriksimon
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      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

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

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          danswartz
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          Bingo.  Exactly what I did :)

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

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

              /Fredrik

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