Hyper-V - PFsense 2.0.1 - Some tips.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 codehttp://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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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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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 :(
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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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Thanks for the heads up jimp.
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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-SKEWI tried all solutions above, but no success yet :( any suggestions?
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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. -
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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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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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 :-/ -
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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They seem to run pretty much the same, I have migrated a few from 2008 to 2012.
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booo. Guess it's wait for freebsd 10 or 11. Hopefully by then we can have better support :)
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I'm installing pfSense 2.1 Beta0 on Hyper-V 2008R2. The live cd worked for as far as I tested (with legacy nics), however a install to disk failed with the error:
Execution of the command
/sbin/fdisk -v -f /tmp/format.fdisk ad0
FAILED with a return code of 1This was because I used a Dynamically Expanding disk. After changing it to a Fixed Size disk, the install continued.
As mentioned before, the nics don't receive data after first boot. To fix this I did the following:
Go to the shell
vi /usr/local/etc/rc.d/interfaces.shPress INSERT and start typing the following (watch out for typos as these are difficult to correct in VI):
ifconfig de0 down
ifconfig de0 up
ifconfig de1 down
ifconfig de1 up
dhclient de0When done, press INSERT and type:
:wq
Followed by pressing ENTER
Type:
chmod +x /usr/local/etc/rc.d/interfaces.sh
Followed by pressing ENTER. This will allow the script to run.
This makes pfSense work in Hyper-V.
I'm also looking at loadbalancing multiple nics to see if I can increase the throughput. Anybody got experience with this?
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Has this issue of the legacy adapters not being gigabit been solved?
Seriously thinking of doing this with my server.
Wish it was stable for production as I have several R710 servers with multiple nics that would be nice to combine into windows/pfsense box.