Does this setup work? PfSense 2.8.0 + VmWare 8.0 + Guest OS FreeBSD 14

geovaneg

Good afternoon,

I downloaded PfSense 2.8 and am running it as a POC in this virtualization configuration:

I know that PfSense 2.8 uses FreeBSD 15 and not version 14, which is the latest supported by VmWare.

I am running an IPSEC VPN on this configuration and using pfBlockerNG-devel. I created the machine from scratch and restored the settings from a PfSense 2.6.0 VM without any major problems other than adjustments to the PfBlocker lists.

So far, everything is fine, with few users connecting to the VPN.

I would like to know if anyone else is using this combination of PfSense+VMWare+Guest OS, if it eventually works, or what types of problems I should expect to encounter.

Thank you,

Geovane

notec

Hi, we are running a couple of devices with pfSense+ (24.11). So long no major problems in our setup.

Like you I had to choose FreeBSD 14 in the VM-configuration, but our vCenter recognize the Guest OS after the Setup correctly as FreeBSD15.

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Popolou

Virtualising it this way is common and other than ensuring you've taken into account the known tunables for a VM using ESXi, you should be ok.

geovaneg

Hi,

I don't know if there's any direct connection, but I decided to mention this issue here because this error message in UNMAP is occurring on the new VMs I'm creating with this setup.

I've created a specific thread here:

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/198476/unmap-failed-on-boot

Thanks,

Geovane