WAN up speed: Hyper-V pfSense VM running under Win 10 Pro host on laptop
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Dell Latitude E5470 laptop (i7-6820, 32GB ram, Intel Wifi, Intel Lan, Samsung m2 2280 NVME 950 Pro SSD(boot), Adata m2 2242 SATA SSD (purely backup)) running Windows 10 Professional for host OS.
I have pfSense running under Hyper-V VM using the physical Wifi/Lan port for WAN(each assigned to external virtual switch, i manually assign to VM as applicable) and an "Internal" virtual switch for LAN.
So all VM(mix of linux/windows) traffic and also the host are routed through and protected by pfSense. Host OS actually does nothing, has nothing installed. All dev work is inside VMs.
My question is, it takes over a minute for pfSense to bring up the WAN interface, where my Ubuntu 16.04 and even Windows 10 Pro VMs take much less time to come up and be fully useable.
The pfSense install is pretty much stock.
Is there anyway to get pfSense VM to boot up and shutdown faster(similarly long shutdown time)?
Yes, it has access to all 8 virtual cores, it is the only VM to auto start on boot and ive assigned it static 2GB RAM which pfSense tells me is about 33% used. Its pretty insane how quick Ubuntu server VMs startup/shutdown.Do i need to turn on some special configuration for my use case? Does anyone use pfSense to protect their "workstation" or is it server/network level only?
The pfSense Hyper-V VM configuration version is 8.0.
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I am using pfsense to protect my workstation in a hyper-v vm. my physical external virtual switch connected to my physical nic is not shared with host os and is connected to pfsense wan connection(dhcp). I have an internal switch for all guest vm's and host os. I point all outbound traffic from host and vm's to the lan connection on pfsense as default gateway and pfsense forwards traffic out wan link onto external network. My issue is that when my system sleeps, pfsense stops forwarding traffic and I have to reboot the vm.
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Could this be a configuration issue?
E. g. WAN listening for dhcp or something similar and timing out? You could try configuring it a different way, just to test it.
Then again, this being Hyper-V, just change the shutdown action to save the state (kind of like hibernate) and not to shut it down, and also put it to autostart on system start. That way you should not have any delays at all.
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I have a similar config (Lenovo i7).
My pfSense VM boots in about 1min - turn on to menu.
My VM is also v8 - Gen1
only 2 processors.pgk