Can't install pfsense on hyper-V
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Try installing to a smaller virtual HD. I had all sorts of issues trying to install pfsense 2.2.6 on server 2012 R2 hyper-V, till I specified a 10GB virtual disk. Not sure why that fixed the problem (FreeBSD supports disks larger than 10GB), but it did!
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I always make them fixed 20gb Larger does seem to have a problem.
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i shall give that a go tommorow
and can you then make the hard drives bigger after the install?
cause i'd rather have the extra space for the logs seeing that i have to keep them all for at least 1 year ! -
i shall give that a go tommorow
and can you then make the hard drives bigger after the install?
cause i'd rather have the extra space for the logs seeing that i have to keep them all for at least 1 year !update
just tried 10 gb and…. it failled
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Strange, it should work fine. I have tried 2.2 - 2.3 on HyperV 3 (2012 R2) without any problem (apart from spamming the logs with clock drift messages).
Two months ago we've had an HDD failure in our main pfSense box and the quickest "replacement" i came up with was re-creating the router from backups into a HyperV VM. Worked like a charm. It actually worked so well that it took me more than a month to get my butt off the chair and go fix the dead hardware box. :)
The VM is Gen1 (needs to be) and has 2 Gigs of RAM (fixed, dynamic doesn't work), 2 cores, 4 NICs (the new ones, "hn" driver, not the legacy emulated ones) and 16 Gigs of storage. Installed from the standard AMD64 ISO.
Could you post the exact specs of the VM?
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should be a gen 1
1ram: 1024mb (fixed)
CPO: 1core i3
HDD: 10gb or 50gb (fxrd)
NIC: 2 network cards (dedicated for the pf)
ISO: pfsense-CE-2.3.1-RELEASE-386.iso -
I forgot to mention that the HDD is at IDE interface, not SCSI, so you might check that.
Also, use an AMD64 image, do not use i386. -
I forgot to mention that the HDD is at IDE interface, not SCSI, so you might check that.
Also, use an AMD64 image, do not use i386.even though i've got intel cpu ?
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AMD64 is a CPU/instruction set architecture that started with AMD and Intel also used it. So the names are just part of history.
The vast majority of 32 bit CPUs made by Intel and AMD are "i386".
The vast majority of 64 bit CPUs made by Intel and AMD are "AMD64". -
AMD64 is a CPU/instruction set architecture that started with AMD and Intel also used it. So the names are just part of history.
The vast majority of 32 bit CPUs made by Intel and AMD are "i386".
The vast majority of 64 bit CPUs made by Intel and AMD are "AMD64".that what i realised (just made self a bit stupid :) )
there a reason as to why they just didn't put 32 or 64 bit ? -
great news it works :D :D
even the bigger hdd -
many thanks for all your help
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Glad you made it work mate. :)
