PfSense virtio networking under KVM
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I've installed the latest snapshot from iso. The drivers are not included in the installed system (in /boot/kernel). If I install/configure them from the mentioned source, they work fine, but an update launched on the web interface deletes the drivers from /boot/kernel. I need to copy them back after every update and reconfigure the interfaces. It's rather tedious since I need to switch back and forth between e1000 and virtio in KVM… Can you suggest a solution?
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Hasn't anyone tried a similar setup? For example Debian's kFreeBSD installs the virtio network drives by default, also working nicely. The reinstalling of drivers can be semi-automated with init scripts but I don't really think that would be the solution.
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The download link isn't available any more.
can anybody upload the driver.
thanks
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Same here.
I will love to get a hand on these drivers.
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i386: http://www.multiupload.com/4TL8NFJRLN
amd64: http://www.multiupload.com/UGFE0L4MKB -
rapidshare isn't serious man!
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I guess you can use the other six services to download.
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Apparently this mod breaks traffic shaper, the interfaces are not available under traffic shaper. I wonder if there is an easy way to fix it…
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Try adding it to the list at line 3520 of /etc/inc/interfaces.inc
It may not really be altq capable, but you can try.
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Will the virtio driver be included in the final release of PfSense 2.0?
It's mentioned in this thread that it's included since 2.0 but I won't get it working only by installing it manually.
"We have added this driver to 2.0. Please test a new snapshot and it should be present sometime tomorrow."
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Hello,
i would bump this topic and ask, are there now virtio drivers in the latest pfSense 2.0 RCx?
Regards, Valle
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can you please make a statement and tell us if in the final pfsense 2.0 will be virtio drivers for kvm?
Thanx for answer.
Valshare
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after a view tests, i can say that the actual virtio driver didn´t work correkt. More than 3 network interfaces didn´t work correct (routing)
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thanks for that information. did you also test the virtio disk driver?
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hi,
no i didn´t test die virtio disc driver because of the trouble with the virtio net drivers. I think its better to wait for the offical, when there ever will be released.
I have tested successfull the network e1000 and iscsi disc drivers with pfsense.
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any news about that ?
are the virtio drivers included in the 2.0 final release ? -
Hello!
Running pfSense-2.0-RELEASE-i386
Same problem here :)
On E1000 with KVM I'm getting 250-300Mbit/s
This isn't enough for internal routing (for example when using pfSense to route traffic between 192.168.x.x and 10.x.x.x).
I'm just curious about that.Okay. Some tests.
Q1: why I have to exit shell and go into shell again (press 8…) to see new command (iperf) available after adding in packages?
Q2: reaching about 240-250Mbit/s DebianVM+virtio-net -> pfSenseVM+e1000 and pfSenseVM+e1000 -> DebianVM+virtio-net
Q3: there is no problem to reach about 900Mbit/s from DebianVM+virtio-net to the client.
Q4: timeouts on IDE drive attached in pfSenseVM. No such thing when using virtio-storage in DebianVM.
Both VM placed on the same storage - software mdadm RAID1 with 2 drives.
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maybe this could help:
http://people.freebsd.org/~kuriyama/virtio/
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@TooMeek, thanx for the tests. Do you have testet the drivers that WetWilly has postet?
Regards, Valle
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I tried the drivers that WetWilly has posted, but I can't see any virtio network interface in pfSense.
How can I catch the log of loading /boo/loader.conf?