Unable to complete pfsense configurartion/installation on a Linux guest KVM
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I am trying to install pfsense as a Linux KVM guest VM so that I can evaluate it before deploying it on a real hardware.
I have configured the guest VM with two NICs (rtl8139 for the WAN and e1000 for the LAN) as well as a 2G qemu hard disk image file, memory
is 512MB.I boot up the guest VM with the pfsense installer ISO file - No problems.
I choose the default and then choose the "I" option to install onto to the qemu hard disk image file - again no problems. The installation goes fine.
Upon reboot pfsense displays the 2 NICs as re0 and em0 respectively and asks me if I want to configure VLANs - I answer no.
Then I choose WAN as re0 and LAN as em0.
After which I answer 'y' to "Do you want to proceed with configuration?"
pfsense proceeds with a few configuration and then hangs on "Configuring WAN interface …"
I have tried the official release ISO (1.2.3) as well as the latest snapshot ISO (2.0-BETA3-20100630-1444).
In the official release the configurator hangs "Configuring LAN interface ..."
Google search threw up a few links where people said to wait for DHCP timeout. For both ISO I have waited more than 20 mins.
Any pointers on how to cross this barrier to complete the pfsense configuration would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
-- Arun Khan -
I have installed 1.2 under KVM on Ubuntu and am still running it quite happily. Are your virtual NICs hooked up to bridges on the linux host OK?
I certainly didn't have any particular problems installing.
Performance of course isn't to good with no virtio support in freeBSD (and consequently high CPU usage).
Was just thinking I might try out V2 beta, I'll report back in a couple of days if I get the time.
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I have installed 1.2 under KVM on Ubuntu and am still running it quite happily. Are your virtual NICs hooked up to bridges on the linux host OK?
Yes, I have a standard shell script to invoke the VMs. Here is the script for my pfsense VM.
#!/bin/bash
export KVM_DIR=$HOME/KVM
generate an unique MAC address for each NIC
nic0=00:07:43:2c:b8:01
nic1=00:07:43:0d:c5:04qemu-kvm
-vga cirrus
-m 512
-drive file=${KVM_DIR}/vdisks/pfsense.vdd,index=0,boot=on
-net nic,model=rtl8139,macaddr=${nic0}
-net tap,ifname=tap2,script=no,downscript=no
-net nic,model=e1000,macaddr=${nic1}
-net tap,ifname=tap5,script=no,downscript=no
-daemonize \devices "tap2" and "tap5" are bound to bridges "br0" and "br1" respectively in the host OS (openSUSE 11.2). I am using the above strategy to evaluate ClearOS, ebox, Untangle etc. and they boot up fine with the 2 NICs. Needless to say, I boot the VMs only one at any given time and not all at the same time.
Please see attached screenshot where the LAN/WAN configuration go into never land.
