On installing and using Virtualbox or Bhyve...

[drumsergio]

Excuse me if this is a noobish question, but this is the first time I'm using FreeBSD after purchasing a QOTOM device and installing pfSense on it.

Context: The QOTOM PC I bought for my home office has shiny specs, and I intended to use the spare power to use it as my Kubernetes master (but without actually running any load on it with the help of a taint) because even the most powerful Pi 4B I have (of the 7-node cluster) can't handle the load of being a master node...

After rejecting the idea of trying to install it directly on FreeBSD (I'm using K3s distro, so no support whatsoever and honestly I don't have much time to spare on trying to make it work) and rejecting the possibility of using some kind of Docker container to hold the K3s master (I really do not like this idea anyway) I considered using Bhyve or VBox.

I gave Bhyve a try but I really don't want to break the whole pfSense installation. I got some errors just by trying to add the tap0 interface to the already-configured bridge. I had so many doubts overall and finally, I just decided to go for VBox for a bump in reliability and easiness in favour of resource utilization. (Now I try deleting the tap0 interface with a ifconfig tap0 delete and the error I get is

ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCDIFADDR): Can't assign requested address

so I guess I will leave as it is if this doesn't hurt...)

To my surprise, I can't even install VBox even when it's listed here (I don't have GUI so I guess I need to install the nox11 version, but anyway I tried to install the normal version and I got the same error).

[2.5.1-RELEASE][admin@whatever]/root: pkg install virtualbox-ose-nox11
Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue...
pfSense-core repository is up to date.
Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
pfSense repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'virtualbox-ose-nox11' have been found in the repositories

I tried with pkg update without any results. I beg for your help/guide/direction, fellow pfSense friends!

Thanks

[KOM]

@drumsergio You're doing it backwards. Install Proxmox or ESXi on the Qotom and then virtualize pfSense and whatever other VMs you want.