pfSense VM fails to boot after upgrade to 6.8.0-rc8
This is going to be a terrible post because I do not have a lot of information. I upgraded to 6.8.0-rc8 today from 6.8.0-rc7. I used the Unraid Nvidia plugin, but did not think that was the issue. After the upgrade my pfSense VM would halt while booting and never came up. I used the same Unraid Nvidia plugin to rollback to 6.8.0-rc7 and the VM booted without issue. If there are some logs that I can provide I will, but I am not sure where they would be, or even exist at this point since I ro
I found a workaround for this!
The culprit is the cpu-mode "host-passthrough". If I switch to "Emulated QEMU64" the VM boots up again. Switching it in the gui should work if you havn't setup any special CPU flags. Another way is to edit the xml like the following:
change
<cpu mode='host-passthrough' check='none'>
<topology sockets='1' cores='2' threads='1'/>
</cpu>
to
<cpu>
<topology sockets='1' cores='2' threads='1'/>
