Op 10-05-12 19:14, Adam Thompson schreef:
The UltraSparc II family of CPUs does not have any support for
virtualization, and would not run intel-style machine code even if it did.
You will be limited to running pfSense inside a software CPU emulator
like BOCHS, which means you'll be running pfSense on the equivalent of
a 50MHz (original) Pentium, if that... UltraSparcs don't run emulation
code very efficiently.
If your primary goal is to keep power management low, switch to an
Intel ATOM-based platform: those can run for under 10W of power.
Otherwise, if you **must** use a SunFire V100 as your firewall, I
would suggest installing OpenBSD, which both a) is the original source
of the "pf" packet filtering engine that pfSense uses, and b) runs
natively on a SunFire V100.
Oh, and there's a third option: install a "SunPCi" card in your
server, which puts an entire x86-compatible PC onto a PCI card. You'd
have to use VLANs, as the SunPCi card only has a single on-board
Ethernet port and the "pass-through ethernet" feature tends to panic
the Solaris kernel. Speaking as the owner of several SunPCi cards, I
don't recommend this option!
-Adam Thompson
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*Sent:* Thursday, May 10, 2012 10:59 AM
*To:* pfSense support and discussion
*Subject:* Re: [pfSense] pfsense on sun v100 server
...if the sparc architexture allows virtualization, then for sure i
would like to give it a try.
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THANKS al LOT Adam for your information.
I was not aware of the fact the OpenBSD runs natively on Sun Server with
SPARC architecture.
It's because i bought the V100 few months ago, so that's why i would
like to integrate it,...and with OpenBSD - of -course- are quite a few
possibilities.
Thanks again!!
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Hugo Heykers
Jozef Stormsstraat 10
2660 Hoboken
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skype: hugoh1961
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