Error on Proxmox VM: "Nexus cannot be licensed..."

patient0

Since it's going to be the next GUI (but looking like Android Material :/ ) I wanted to give it a go. In the GUI no error message pops up but no links to the Nexus GUI is shown in the settings.

Checking the logs:

Aug  4 16:25:01 pfp pfnet-controller[99182]: WARNING Nexus is not available on this system 
Aug  4 16:25:01 pfp pfnet-controller[99182]: WARNING 680489 [/var/run/pfnet-controller.sock] GET /api/mim/controller/
identity (DONE 0.376ms) ERROR: {"errcode":401,"errmsg":"400 Netgate Nexus is not supported on this sytem"} 
Aug  4 16:25:01 pfp pfnet-controller[99182]: WARNING 714328 [/var/run/pfnet-controller.sock] GET /api/mim/controller/
identity (DONE 0.223ms) ERROR: {"errcode":401,"errmsg":"400 Netgate Nexus is not supported on this sytem"} 
Aug  4 16:25:01 pfp pfnet-controller[99182]: WARNING 715107 [/var/run/pfnet-controller.sock] GET /api/mim/device/iden
tity (DONE 0.226ms) ERROR: {"errcode":401,"errmsg":"400 Netgate Nexus is not supported on this sytem"} 
Aug  4 16:25:22 pfp pfnet-controller[99182]: WARNING Nexus cannot be licensed on this system due to: serial number un
available, unsupported virtualization.

Is running pfSense+ as a VM on Proxmox 9 not supported (yet)?

marcosm

On some third-party systems, Netgate Nexus may indicate that the system is unsupported or ineligible for licensing. We're working to improve that with future releases. VMs require a serial to be set (and UUID) as mentioned in that log message.

patient0

@marcosm a serial number in the BIOS? A UUID for SMBIOS is set according to the Proxmox options.

Edit: In Proxmox, adding a random serial number for the VM option 'SMBIOS settings (type1)', field 'Serial' solved it. Nexus now starts. Thanks @marcosm.