On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 18:03 +0000, Joseph Hardeman wrote: > I was wondering if anyone has been able to get pfSense running > on VMWare? And if so, would you mind sharing how to do it. I > was thinking of doing some testing for a buddy and installing > pfSense on a VM so I don’t have to find or setup another > physical box for him.
hi joseph, i use pfsense extensively under vmware and it has worked marvellously -- two instances running in a two different rack servers in a hosting center. i would urge you to consider vmware esxi 5.0 (just out recently) -- it allows the vmware o/s to have a firewall so you can protect the management interface should you decide to declare it on a public ip address. alternatively, you can put the vmware interface on simulated lan interface (vmware switch) that doesn't use a physical adapter. in that case, pfsense needs to be running in order to get to the vmware interface -- i was using openvpn to connect to pfsense, and then once the tunnel was up, i could connect to vmware. make sure pfsense autostarts :-) a remote controller is indispensable in that setup -- the management interface can be adjusted from the vmware console screen. oh yea, one other note ... if you declare/use vlans on pfsense, you need to enable vlans in the vmware networking management (through vshpere) -- took me a while to figure that one out ... it wont send giants without being told to. cheers m
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