Hardware-assisted virtualization with PCI pass-through

[G.D. Wusser Esq.]

How well would the current stable version PFSense run in a virtual machine using network adapter PCI pass-through (with VT-x and VT-d)? Is this a plug-and-play setup, or something fiddly that requires compiling your own distribution?

Thanks.

[jasonlitka]

Works fine, though if you're using 10Gbe interfaces you might actually see better throughput with virtualized NICs.

[G.D. Wusser Esq.]

Thank you, which hypervisor do you recommend?

[jasonlitka]

vSphere.