I think he understood, but was suggesting other virtualization ideas that he felt would be a more rewarding use of developer resources. To me, it sounds like you want the feature set of pfsense available on a platform that runs virtual machines... for example, having a "pfSense" option in VMware to compliment the NAT and HostOnly networking options.
I don't think it's a bad idea, I just don't think it should be a direction pfSense travels. I think pfSense is an amazing project that has pushed its way past the usefulness of several commercial offerings, and that diluting it with additions to virtualize on top of it would take away from its core purpose. If there are situations that merit combining all these features (pfSense, VMs) into one device, perhaps there's also another solution that would allow them to be separate, and still solve the problem? -Adrian ----- Original Message ----- From: "pfsense sense" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 5:13:42 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [pfSense-discussion] xen aware pfsense. " multiple concurrent PFSense instances" no, you have also missed my point... i'm not interested in vistualizing "pfsense" my idea was to "provide" VT options, a dom0, "along side" pfsense... as it is available in Linux. | OS --> service (file) cloud --> pfsense --> VT --> | OS --> service (mail) | OS --> service (database) On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Greg Hennessy < [email protected] > wrote: As the others have said, it depends on what you mean by 'integrate' Ignoring the lack of Xen dom0 support in FreeBSD for a moment. Utilising VT technology to deliver physical as well as logical isolation of multiple concurrent PFSense instances in a manner analagous to Fortinet VDOM : http://kc.forticare.com/default.asp?id=2065&Lang=1&SID = or Juniper VSYS : http://www.juniper.net/solutions/literature/white_papers/200103.pdf Does have a certain attraction from a managed service perspective. Hosting applications within domUs running on PFSense. A complete waste of time. Greg From: pfsense sense [ [email protected] ] Sent: 28 January 2009 00:42 To: [email protected] Subject: [pfSense-discussion] xen aware pfsense. has anyone considered the possibility of intergrating xen with pfsense ? i might be loosing my mind but wouldn't it be nice to have a pfsense running on harware and a vistualization environemnt that allow us to install our OS's of choice perfectly protected behind pfsense ? does anything else think it's a good idea ? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
