February 6, 201412 yr Do anyone have interest in this? I ask because it obviously does not carry the same demand as SAB, sick, etc. Therefore, no sense wasting time if nobody plans to run pfsense.
February 6, 201412 yr Me too. Pfsense, and crashplan are my two high priority vm's.. and pfsense first....
February 7, 201412 yr What are peoples coping strategies when they take down their server for maintenance and it also knocks over the internet. This is the biggest drawback I can see to this setup. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
February 7, 201412 yr Guess will just be down for a bit... or if you virtualize unraid as a guest you could hot swap the drives just restarting the vm...
February 7, 201412 yr I assume PCI password for the NICs would be necessary? Agree with Ironic about taking down the VMs taking down the Internet. I fiddle a lot more with unRaid than my firewall/router.
February 7, 201412 yr Author Ok, I wouldn't be against trying to make a guide or even just helping. Before I start I want to clear some things with that grumpy buss driver if he comes around here. I haven't tried, but was thinking about his mention of pv as opposed to hvm. Obviously hvm needs pass through to use it and that's fine, it is how mine works and so far it is solid and fast. However, hvm limits the people without pass through so I am thinking about pv. Can I bridge as many NICs as I want? Is there a way to lock a NIC down so only one vm will ever use them and maybe even see? Or is this accomplished by simply not putting them in the configuration for other vms. Also, I would want to make sure the host system does not see them either/make them not available. The thought being all pfsense really wants is 2 NICs so if I can give it 2 br1 and br2 then as long as nothing else chats on those NICs, it should technically work, no?
February 9, 201412 yr Some of us will have more than 2 nics for pfSense. I will have a minimum of 4 ISP1 ISP2 Trusted lan Untrusted guest lan I have a HotLava gigabit ethernet 6 port card as well as the ports on my X9SCM.
February 10, 201412 yr Author That shouldnt matter either, the big question remains, pv vs hvm and if pv is possible. I am running hvm and things are good, but grumpy mentioned this can be CPU intensive. So I dont know if thats good or bad as I have not seen an issue, but I am also not watching it constantly
February 15, 201412 yr We're all playing chicken. Who will be first to try it? I have an amd box sucking way more power than an atom running my pfsense. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk
February 17, 201412 yr Author I have it running, it runs great. NIC passthrough and HVM is needed. Grumpy once told me this is CPU intensive and will at some point need to go PV, but I havent messed with it since deployment. It has been solid for a month now.
February 17, 201412 yr I'm installing a VM now... will configure it and test back.... So?.... I got it running, but decided not to swap over to VM. It ran fine, but I didn't want to bring down my WAN if I need to do maintence on unRAID
February 21, 201412 yr I always loved pfsense. Just could justify the cost of having another device attached to my network.
April 1, 201412 yr trying to install pfsense on my rig now but cant get the cfg right. could any of you guys who already have it running post the contents of your cfg up? here's what I'm trying... and yeah :'( not working tried hvm as well... no good name="pfsense" bootloader='pygrub' memory=512 vcpus=2 disk=['phy:/mnt/cache/domains/pfsense/pfsense.img,hda,w','phy:/mnt/cache/domains/pfsense/pfsense.iso,hdc:cdrom,r'] vif=['mac=00:16:3e:35:4t:88,bridge=xenbr1','mac=00:16:3e:36:3t:87,bridge=xenbr2'] boot="ncd" vnc='1' vnclisten='0.0.0.0' vncpassword=''
April 2, 201412 yr What kind of resources does PF Sense take to run? Just wondering if you could just use the free version of unRAID on a small old junker PC and run the entire thing off a VM living on the USB device (pfsense). Thoughts? Use case analysis anyone?
April 2, 201412 yr What kind of resources does PF Sense take to run? Just wondering if you could just use the free version of unRAID on a small old junker PC and run the entire thing off a VM living on the USB device (pfsense). Thoughts? Use case analysis anyone? I'm running pfSense on with a 10 year old dell computer (P4 2.6 GHz processor, 1 GB of ram). I also send all my internet traffic through a VPN which is CPU intensive. I have 30 Mbps download and if I do a speed test the CPU gets used around 50%. So unless you want to send all your data through a VPN using Google Fiber, you don't really need a good computer... I am not sure what happens if you run pfSense as a VM however.
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