Just to add/restate some of the things said in this conversation. FreeBSD 6.2 (which pfSense is based on) cannot run under Xen - while it may be possible to run it with hardware virtualization under Xen, I'd recommend against it at this time. It does however run perfectly fine on both VMWare Server and VMWare ESX Server. MS Virtual server has been shown to have some issues (something about the virtual hardware it emulates...or doesn't...that FreeBSD barfs on). Bottom line is if you want to run pfSense as a guest in VMWare, it'll work fine, use bridged interfaces and don't assign an IP to the host (or at least not on the external interface) and let the virtualized pfSense handle the traffic. You can even have an entire virtual DMZ then *shudder*. Have fun.
--Bill On 7/24/07, Roland Giesler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks for your suggestions and comment everyone. I think I'll go with multiple VM guests on a host OS. My mind is much clearer about this now. regards Roland
