PfSense virtio networking under KVM

kobuki

Hasn't anyone tried a similar setup? For example Debian's kFreeBSD installs the virtio network drives by default, also working nicely. The reinstalling of drivers can be semi-automated with init scripts but I don't really think that would be the solution.

homa

The download link isn't available any more.

can anybody upload the driver.

thanks

preview

Same here.

I will love to get a hand on these drivers.

kobuki

i386: http://www.multiupload.com/4TL8NFJRLN
amd64: http://www.multiupload.com/UGFE0L4MKB

catfish

rapidshare isn't serious man!

kobuki

I guess you can use the other six services to download.

v1ad

Apparently this mod breaks traffic shaper, the interfaces are not available under traffic shaper. I wonder if there is an easy way to fix it…

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,37518.0.html

jimp

Try adding it to the list at line 3520 of /etc/inc/interfaces.inc

It may not really be altq capable, but you can try.

tyllee

Will the virtio driver be included in the final release of PfSense 2.0?

It's mentioned in this thread that it's included since 2.0 but I won't get it working only by installing it manually.

"We have added this driver to 2.0. Please test a new snapshot and it should be present sometime tomorrow."

valshare

Hello,

i would bump this topic and ask, are there now virtio drivers in the latest pfSense 2.0 RCx?

Regards, Valle

valshare

@jimp

can you please make a statement and tell us if in the final pfsense 2.0 will be virtio drivers for kvm?

Thanx for answer.

Valshare

valshare

after a view tests, i can say that the actual virtio driver didn´t work correkt. More than 3 network interfaces didn´t work correct (routing)

catfish

thanks for that information. did you also test the virtio disk driver?

valshare

hi,

no i didn´t test die virtio disc driver because of the trouble with the virtio net drivers. I think its better to wait for the offical, when there ever will be released.

I have tested successfull the network e1000 and iscsi disc drivers with pfsense.

paolo_denti

any news about that ?
are the virtio drivers included in the 2.0 final release ?

toomeek

Hello!
Running pfSense-2.0-RELEASE-i386
Same problem here :)
On E1000 with KVM I'm getting 250-300Mbit/s
This isn't enough for internal routing (for example when using pfSense to route traffic between 192.168.x.x and 10.x.x.x).
I'm just curious about that.

Okay. Some tests.
Q1: why I have to exit shell and go into shell again (press 8…) to see new command (iperf) available after adding in packages?
Q2: reaching about 240-250Mbit/s DebianVM+virtio-net -> pfSenseVM+e1000 and pfSenseVM+e1000 -> DebianVM+virtio-net
Q3: there is no problem to reach about 900Mbit/s from DebianVM+virtio-net to the client.
Q4: timeouts on IDE drive attached in pfSenseVM. No such thing when using virtio-storage in DebianVM.
Both VM placed on the same storage - software mdadm RAID1 with 2 drives.

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WetWilly

maybe this could help:

http://people.freebsd.org/~kuriyama/virtio/

valshare

@TooMeek, thanx for the tests. Do you have testet the drivers that WetWilly has postet?

Regards, Valle

ttw1988

I tried the drivers that WetWilly has posted, but I can't see any virtio network interface in pfSense.
How can I catch the log of loading /boo/loader.conf?

WetWilly

well, the driver I posted is for freebsd 8.2 and 9.0

If I'm not mistaken pfSense 2. is based upon 8.1, so the driver most likely need (alot) tweaking.