It should work though. A great many people virtualize pfSense: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/PfSense_on_VMware_vSphere_/_ESXi
Here is some more information: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/VirtIO_Driver_Support https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Lost_Traffic_/_Packets_Disappear https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Virtualizing_pfSense_on_Proxmox I know what it is like to ask for support and see people stop helping because something is virtualized. I have seen bad code fail in virtualization situations only to here 'do not virtualize'. >From what I know, BSD has trouble with NIC interfaces and such. Do you have any limiters or QOS installed? I would take a look at the nic interfaces first. Can you actively monitor the log to look for errors once the VM is booted? I virtualized pfSense on proxmox about a year ago and BSD hated the cpu timers and such. I would get so many issues from it until I figured it out but everything was plain as day in the kernel messages that were outputted. There is an ova file available via the gold subscription: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/VMware_Appliance You need to get more information for me to help further. It would be great to get a copy of some logs. Here is a XenServer thread: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=88467 Last time I virtualized the big deal was hvm nic vs pvhvm NIC. You could do limiters on one (I think hvm) but the NIC's become CPU bound because of how HVM works. I could only push like 10-30 mbits out of an i3 processor. I do not know if this has been solved, or if it is solvable. pfSense follows FreeBSD so most of the fixes for this come from FreeBSD, though pfSense had/has some of its own kernel hacks. On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 10:58 AM, Vick Khera <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh, so you're not running it on hardware, but inside ESXi? Then I have no > more ideas for you. You should mention these things when asking for help, > by the way. > > > On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 8:12 AM, Liwei <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks for the quick reply. It is a Supermicro 5018A-FTN4 based on >> the A1SRi-2758F which contains an Atom C2758. RAM tests are fine. This >> machine also contains a few other VMs which are running fine. >> >> By the way, I missed out reporting the crash itself: >> >> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode >> cpuid = 2; apic id = 02 >> fault virtual address = 0x60 >> fault code = supervisor read data, page not present >> instruction pointer = 0x20:0xffffffff80cbcb0f >> stack pointer = 0x28:0xfffffe02390bf070 >> frame pointer = 0x28:0xfffffe02390bf070 >> code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b >> = DPL 0, pres 1, long 1, def32 0, gran 1 >> processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 >> current process = 12 (irq267: vmx0) >> >> On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 at 20:55 Vick Khera <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 7:36 AM, Liwei <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > > >> > > Anyone has any idea what's going on? Restoring to pfSense 2.3 seems >> > to >> > > solve this problem, so it is more likely a software than hardware >> issue. >> > > >> > > >> > What's your hardware? Have you tested your RAM using memtest86? >> > _______________________________________________ >> > pfSense mailing list >> > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list >> > Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold >> > >> -- >> Clear Skies,LiweiCo-Founder, CTO >> >> TinyMOS >> >> >> <http://tinymos.com/> <https://www.facebook.com/thetinymos/> >> <https://www.instagram.com/thetinymos/> <https://twitter.com/thetinymos> >> >> 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Level 1 The Hangar, Singapore 119613 >> _______________________________________________ >> pfSense mailing list >> https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list >> Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold >> > _______________________________________________ > pfSense mailing list > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
