Error pfsense freebsd
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My understanding was that only version 2.1 of PFsense worked well under KVM (has the VirtIO driver in base) and that version is still in beta. You'd be best on deadicated hardware for running a Firewall device.
So your running pre-release 2.3 in production? what version of PFsense are you using? Chances are, your'll get a better response from their forums.
Yes I'm running in production, but this is an error 
I just found a full backup of the server that I have restored.
Everything went back to normal but it would be nice to find an answer to the error message before the release of the final version.
I'm using version 2.0.2 of pfsense
I will not use the test version in production
I just found a full backup of the server that I have restored.
Everything went back to normal but it would be nice to find an answer to the error message before the release of the final version.
I'm using version 2.0.2 of pfsense
I will not use the test version in production
From what I have read on the PFsense forums 2.0.2 doesnt have virtIO drivers installed. so if you want to stay with that version I'd recommend you move to physical hardware. There is a thread for enabling the virtIO drivers in 2.1(RC1) and plenty of reports that it is in stable production use by many users. I'd sugest you start testing this version before the PVE2.3 release.
I will not now, I've spent a lot of time up my machine
This option has what effect?
Keep hardware compatibility with kvm 1.0. (Somebody have reported that it's has corrected a freebsd boot problem).
Hello, same here. I was testing out 2.3pre (I see that it has been released todayMy pfsense worked very well until now before migration in 2.3 I do not see why it would work poorly. I think there is a problem in version 2.3
and pfsense 2.02. Thanks for the advice to try pfsense 2.1 snapshot. will give it a try!you've made all the changes as per here? http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/VirtIO_Driver_Support
Admittedly it mentions qemu-kvm 1.0, but....
Admittedly it mentions qemu-kvm 1.0, but....
Hello, thanks for the reply. I maybe misunderstanding the documentation, but, i (we?) are unable to get to the point to follow the instructions, the load process is crashing before the system is usable in vm. Also, I am not using virtIO drives or nics. Again, maybe I am misunderstanding virtIO. Are they just related to one of the options one selects for Drive or NIC or is virtIO the underlying technology that is used no matter what we select (ie IDE or RTLnic). Thanks.
I am having the same issue and tried this and it didn't work for me. I had it working just fine on 2.2 before upgrading to 2.3. I am also running pfsense on 2.1 and even if I try to install 2.0.1 it has this issue... It seems it enters into a debugging mode when trying to load the kernel.
Hi,
same problem here on a test server...
but pfSense 2.0.2 i based on freebsd 8.1
http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/PfSense_and_FreeBSD_Versions
downloading freebsd 8.1 and 8.3 to make some test
Thanks