hyper-V in desktop machine (core 2 Deo 2 GB Ram and 250 GB in HD)
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Because I just check on pfsense forum and I find some people complaining about some issue when using pfsense in hyper-v
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@IT-ADMIN said:
Well. And also it look like hyper-v having some issue with freebsd
I think linux hypervisor is more compatible with pfsense than windows hypervisor? ?? Is it true?Yes, even Linux support is relatively new in HyperV. HyperV is good but it is not mature and has not had much time to get aware from the most basic or common support needs.
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@DustinB3403 said:
pfsense is a linux distro.
No, the name pfSense itself refers to the fact that it is FreeBSD. There is no Linux anywhere near it.
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@DustinB3403 said:
But the Hypervisor shouldn't care what the ISO is. It just gets run as a machine, within another machine.
Main issue is lack of PV drivers.
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@IT-ADMIN said:
Because I just check on pfsense forum and I find some people complaining about some issue when using pfsense in hyper-v
It would not be expected to work. FreeBSD doesn't run on Azure either, yet.
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The issue specifically reside in nic and traffic speed according to what I had found
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@IT-ADMIN said:
The issue specifically reside in nic and traffic speed according to what I had found
Which is controlled by the PV drivers (or the lack thereof.)
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what do you mean by pv drivers sir
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ParaVirtualized Drivers
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Here's a description of PV Drivers and why they should be used.
http://discussions.citrix.com/topic/239566-what-does-pv-drivers-mean/
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@DustinB3403 said:
http://discussions.citrix.com/topic/239566-what-does-pv-drivers-mean/
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i follow your opinion and choose XenServer, the XenCenter look great and has a nice GUI user friendly, but i remark that XenServer consume too much RAM, almost half of my RAM memory, in this case i will have only 1 GB RAM for guest (in my situation 2 guest) freePBX will get 500 MB and pfsense will get 500 MB, i don't think that it will be enough ??
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Does all hypervisors consume such memory or only XenServer ???
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Pretty much every Hypervisor is going to consume at least 2 GB of memory.
Without going out and searching for the minimum my self. But 2GB isn't really much at all.
Granted it is on your system though.
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Any reason you can't increase the amount of RAM? The cost should be minimal.
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@Dashrender said:
Any reason you can't increase the amount of RAM? The cost should be minimal.
sure i'm planning to do that, i will add another 2 GB, i hope the CPU work fine because there is no way to increase !
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@Dashrender said:
Any reason you can't increase the amount of RAM? The cost should be minimal.
I'll 2nd that
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@IT-ADMIN In my (limited) experience you run out of RAM (and HDD I/O) long before you run out of CPU
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@MattSpeller said:
@IT-ADMIN In my (limited) experience you run out of RAM (and HDD I/O) long before you run out of CPU
i hope so
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Is this for personal use? If so I can understand using this setup, but for production, no way.
Though @scottalanmiller will say that even in home use this probably shouldn't be done, instead host these on services like DigitalOcean will provide better service, etc - granted the cost will be significant comparatively.
