Is it possible to install pfSense on Hyper-V?

Question

Hyper-V

Hello. The essence of the question is in the title. If anyone has already done this, please share your experience.

Answer 1

It is possible, but fraught with problems. In particular, support for the Hyper-V network appeared only in FreeBSD 10.0, and pfSense, as far as I remember, is still based on FreeBSD 8.X. But even if they have already crawled to 9, it doesn't change much.
In order for the network to work in a virtual fra on Hyper-V, you need to supply Legacy network adapters there, and you also have to pull them after a reboot (i.e. do ifconfig down / up) so that the network rises in the virtual machine. It happens that she does not immediately rise. There is also a limit on the size of the disk and its type. Those. thin provisioning for a disk with virtual frey will not work, you will need to do a fixed disk. Our disks crashed with a size of more than 20 GB - the frya fell into the crust.
If you are ready to put up with this rake, then you can bet. But I would recommend making a clean freu 10.1 - it fully supports the Hyper-V network and no problems were noticed.
Or virtualize pfSense on something else. On VMware or VirtualBox.

Answer 2

Use Proxmox\VmWare Esxi. Reviews are positive.

Answer 3

2.2.4 already on the 10th Fre, should work without the described rake. It works for me, but so far the time of use is about a month.