Hyper-V Synthetic Network Drivers ($600)
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If it goes up to 3000$ i would give this a shot.
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Well, we are half there. $600 + $900 = $1500.
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I with I could contribute to the bounty, but alas, I'm only acting as a hobbyist right now and can't afford to contribute funds at this time.
As to why it would be nice to have this
- The synthetic network driver provides better performance overall (both bandwidth and turnaround and lower CPU usage)
- Features like VMQ (VMDq) are exclusive to synthetic adapters (and legacy adapters can't connect to the same network, effectively requiring to have separate network cards for legacy and synthetic VMs - meaning that for simple networks, pfSense might be the sole non-Windows VM requiring 2 dedicated network cards, while everything else runs off a single team).
- Simpler Hyper-V setup (ie, being able to team and use vlans with a simple Hyper-V switch setup).
And some notes that might help someone more familiar with pfSense and FreeBSD get started:
- CentOS supports the synthetic driver. See http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-linux-integration-services-v2.1-hyper-v-r2-on-centos-5 and http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4752
- It can be installed using dkms, per MS KB 2387594 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2387594
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Please dont lower the bounty - I raised it with 900 to 1500.
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Dont lower the bounty on the thread - its 1500
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deltaend,
I hope you won't find this as intruding, but if you haven't found someone that can program the Hyper-V Synthetic NIC. I would be willing to match your offering for whomever able to build it.
We are having some strange problems with the Legacy NIC using FreeBSD on our Hyper-V nodes and would like to be able to use the Synthetic NIC.
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Sounds great!
Bounty is now $2100
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Mikhug, please sound off so I can confirm that you are still interested in adding $900 to our total. We have a programmer who might be interested in the project.
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Deltaend & Mikehug
Can you please shoot me an email to timt at sharktech.net so we can co-ordinate our efforts? I've had someone reach out to me as well probably the same individual but would be better if we all handle this together so we can set the standards of what we are looking for.
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this would be so awesome. i hope it gets made.
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In an effort to organize this so that it is more official, I applied to kickstarter for a project on this. Hopefully by the end of this week it gets approved and everyone can contribute. I will post the link here when it gets approved.
Hopefully we can raise more money than we need so we can pay for additional support for Hyper-V such as i386 support, TimeSync, Storage drivers, etc…
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This appears to be a non issue now
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Per the link you specified, it will initially support FreeBSD 8.2 and 8.3 sometime early summer.
Per http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/PfSense_and_FreeBSD_Versions, 2.0.1 is based on 8.1. So this would initially only help the upcoming pfSense 2.1 (with IPv6 support), which is based on 8.3, and assuming that these drivers make it into the 2.1 release (the bounty could be put towards motivating programmers to include the necessary support along with 2.1 or shortly after or as an installable package).
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Well, if this is the case, no need for my KickStarter project… also no need to move ahead with getting something coded until we find out if the drivers will be fully compatible or not. For the moment, I think we could consider this bounty suspended until such a time as we can evaluate pfSense with the new driver pack.
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Definitely glad to see Microsoft, NetApp and Citrix stepping up on this. Once they make that available, we'll need to look at incorporating it and keeping hyper-v a first class citizen. We'll need the funding at that point to get a server to run hyper-v long term (if someone would like to contribute something, donations welcome), and to put developer time towards integrating the patches, testing, etc. Virtually all development comes from people on our payroll and we have to have some way to meet that payroll. Once we get to that point, I'll follow up on this thread to see what we can put together.
