I am trying to install pfsense as a Linux KVM guest VM so that I can evaluate it before deploying it on a real hardware.
I have configured the guest VM with two NICs (rtl8139 for the WAN and e1000 for the LAN) as well as a 2G qemu hard disk image file, memory is 512MB. I boot up the guest VM with the pfsense installer ISO file - No problems. I choose the default and then choose the "I" option to install onto to the qemu hard disk image file - again no problems. The installation goes fine. Upon reboot pfsense displays the 2 NICs as re0 and em0 respectively and asks me if I want to configure VLANs - I answer no. Then I choose WAN as re0 and LAN as em0. After which I answer 'y' to "Do you want to proceed with configuration?" pfsense proceeds with a few configuration and then hangs on "Configuring WAN interface ..." I have tried the official release ISO (1.2.3) as well as the latest snapshot ISO (2.0-BETA3-20100630-1444). In the official release the configurator hangs "Configuring LAN interface ..." Google search threw up a few links where people said to wait for DHCP timeout. For both ISO I have waited more than 20 mins. Any pointers on how to cross this barrier in the installation procedure would be much appreciated. Thanks. -- Arun Khan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
