pfSense Virtualized, VMtools?

[cammelspit]

Hey, I still haven't made the plunge and bought the license yet so I am posting this here. Don't worry, I will, I have data on this thing now. ?

 

I do have a question though regarding pfSense as a VM on unRaid. I got my passthrough working for my 4 port NIC, it seems to work just fine from what I can tell. My thing is, pfSense has a package for open-vm-tools and I was wondering if this is necessary when using it as an unRaid VM? Google isn't much help here because I guess those who are setting things up this way probably know a lot more about how the whole thing works than I do. I had a pretty advanced pfSense on a bare metal machine before so I am quite versed in how it works so that not the problem, only I have never worked with it in a virtualized environment so there are knowledge gaps there.

 

Thanks in advance for any and all help and help you can provide!

[1812]

good question. not necessary. i've never used it.

[cammelspit]

Oh, well I guess I won't bother then, thanks. 

[1812]

I'm not saying there may not be benefits or spiffy do-dads and monitoring thingys (that someone else could point out?) but i've never found it necessary.

[cammelspit]

Ah, no worries. Thanks for the info at least. I will still wait for someone to chime in here but at least I am not worried about some catastrophic failure scenario happening all because I didn't install VMtools.