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    Hyper-V - PFsense 2.0.1 - Some tips.

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      ChrisH1
      last edited by

      Issue 4: CARP won't work due to a bug in the "de" network driver. See http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,44529.0.html
      No workaround known yet.

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        heuristik
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        thanks for the heads up on that, Chris.  I just started trying to get that working between vms on a couple of HV hosts…

        I think I read recently that Microsoft just updated its linux integration services disk a couple of weeks ago.  Anyone look to see if there's some love for freebsd yet?

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          behzad
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          Hi,
          Thanks for the tips.
          I'm trying to install pfSense 2.0.1 on Microsoft hyper-v with 2 legacy adapters.
          system halts at startup and the first tip has no effect on it!
          What can I do now?
          Thanks.

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            cicero44bc
            last edited by

            Thanks for the tips heuristik & ChrisH1. I noticed that for some reason DHCP wasn't dishing out IPs on the LAN interface either. I fixed this in a similar method with ifconfig de1 down and ifconfig de1 up, where de1 is the LAN. I added this to /etc/rc.local and its been fine ever since.

            behzad I had some similar issues when using dynamically expanding disks. When I created a fixed disk on IDE it was fine after that.

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              jceb3167
              last edited by

              I don't think that Pfsense is ready to work well on HyperV since this hypervisor does not support FreeBSD 8.1.
              It may work but I doubt it will be suitable for production equipment.
              I would recommend to use ESXi instead.

              http://www.opttic.com

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                cicero44bc
                last edited by

                I agree, for a test environment though its been fine for me. I have not used it beyond basic routing however.

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                  janneb
                  last edited by

                  I have successfully used your tips to install pfsense on hyper-v 2.0 (Win8 / Srv2012) today and will use it as my primary home firewall. Very convenient to run my firewall on my workstation (Hyper-V is built in win8). I will let you know what I find out. One obvious limitation is that the legacy adapters are 100mbit  :'(

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                    janneb
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                    SOpenness 6 Aug 2012 9:46 AM
                    Thank you for your interest in the FreeBSD support for Hyper-V!  Check back on the blog later this week, when we’ll have more details on the release and where to get the code

                    http://blogs.technet.com/b/openness/archive/2012/05/10/freebsd-support-on-windows-server-hyper-v.aspx

                    C'mon c'mon c'mon ..

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                      cicero44bc
                      last edited by

                      Thanks Janneb. Fortunately the drivers are already released (I foolishly hadn't thought to check until you posted this!) http://blogs.technet.com/b/openness/archive/2012/08/09/available-today-freebsd-support-for-windows-server-hyper-v.aspx which links to building the kernel with the new drivers here - https://github.com/FreeBSDonHyper-V/freebsd/wiki/Build-the-kernel-with-the-HyperV-drivers I'm yet to try it but it sounds exciting.

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                        ericsche
                        last edited by

                        Hello,

                        drivers are for FreeBSD 8.2 and beyond so we need to use PFSense 2.1

                        I've been trying for a few days with no luck :(
                        Any idea how to patch the kernel ?

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                        • jimpJ
                          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                          last edited by

                          Even if you manage to get it to work, they still have a lot of work to do before it would be useful on a firewall.

                          See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2012-August/069148.html

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                            cicero44bc
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                            Thanks for the heads up jimp.

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                              iskull
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                              I'm trying to use pfSense w/ Hyper-v on Windows 2008 R2, but I'm not getting  :-\

                              My pfsense version:

                              [2.0.1-RELEASE][admin@maybach.prosperi.local]/root(30): uname -a
FreeBSD maybach.prosperi.local 8.1-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p6 #0: Mon Dec 12 18:15:35 EST 2011     root@FreeBSD_8.0_pfSense_2.0-AMD64.snaps.pfsense.org:/usr/obj./usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/pfSense_SMP.8  amd64

                              I'm getting this messagens in dmesg:

                              calcru: runtime went backwards from 5 usec to 2 usec for pid 17 (vmdaemon)
calcru: runtime went backwards from 166 usec to 92 usec for pid 16 (pagedaemon)
calcru: runtime went backwards from 435 usec to 247 usec for pid 9 (pfpurge)
calcru: runtime went backwards from 36 usec to 19 usec for pid 8 (sctp_iterator)
calcru: runtime went backwards from 7720 usec to 4033 usec for pid 7 (fdc0)
calcru: runtime went backwards from 8496 usec to 4631 usec for pid 14 (yarrow)
calcru: runtime went backwards from 1121396 usec to 603195 usec for pid 4 (g_down)
calcru: runtime went backwards from 818454 usec to 429006 usec for pid 3 (g_up)

                              And searching on the web I found this:

                              http://xtravirt.com/disabling-virtual-machine-guest-host-time-synchronization-multiple-hypervisors
                              http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#calcru-negative-runtime
                              http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#COMPUTER-CLOCK-SKEW

                              I tried all solutions above, but no success yet :( any suggestions?

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                                tester_02
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                                @iskull:

                                I tried all solutions above, but no success yet :( any suggestions?

                                Move on for now.  I've moved on to vmware until hyper-v on freebsd gets sorted out.  I'd love to come back and run hyper-v as I would not have to install other software on the windows machines I am running it on.
                                  Oracle solution seems good too.

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                                  iskull
                                  last edited by

                                  @tester_02:

                                  @iskull:

                                  I tried all solutions above, but no success yet :( any suggestions?

                                  Move on for now.   I've moved on to vmware until hyper-v on freebsd gets sorted out.   I'd love to come back and run hyper-v as I would not have to install other software on the windows machines I am running it on.
                                    Oracle solution seems good too.

                                  :(

                                  If somebody runs pfsense with successful on Hyper-V - Windows 2008 r2, please, share with us :D

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                                    kobedexter
                                    last edited by

                                    Hi I'm new in PFsense, but i found this blog in google

                                    http://www.zomers.eu/knowledge/pfSense/Pages/Install-pfSense-on-Windows-2008-Hyper-V-server.aspx

                                    with this guide I have instaled the PFsense in the hyper-v, but I have a Problem, when y restart PFsense these loss conection to internet.

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                                      msi
                                      last edited by

                                      Just as JimP said: The support for FreeBSD inside Hyper-V is still far from complete.

                                      My general (and painful experience) with Linux was: It took MS ages to support it correctly, now it's ok.
                                      Everything that MS does not support with integration drivers is slow or even crashy, I wouldn't even remotely consider pfSense for any production use on Hyper-V yet. Sorry to say :-/

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                                        tester_02
                                        last edited by

                                        Anyone try pfsense under 2012 hyper-v?  I am just starting to test 2012, so I plan to give it a shot.

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                                          peterclark4
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                                          They seem to run pretty much the same, I have migrated a few from 2008 to 2012.

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                                            tester_02
                                            last edited by

                                            booo.  Guess it's wait for freebsd 10 or 11.  Hopefully by then we can have better support :)

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