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    hyper-V in desktop machine (core 2 Deo 2 GB Ram and 250 GB in HD)

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    • IT-ADMINI
      IT-ADMIN
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      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?

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      • DustinB3403D
        DustinB3403
        last edited by

        pfsense is a linux distro.

        I haven't heard of any compatibility issues with it, and XenServer. I would expect more issues with Hyper-V and pfsense more than anything else.

        But the Hypervisor shouldn't care what the ISO is. It just gets run as a machine, within another machine.

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        • IT-ADMINI
          IT-ADMIN
          last edited by IT-ADMIN

          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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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @IT-ADMIN
            last edited by

            @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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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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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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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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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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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @IT-ADMIN
                  last edited by

                  @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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                  • IT-ADMINI
                    IT-ADMIN
                    last edited by

                    The issue specifically reside in nic and traffic speed according to what I had found

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @IT-ADMIN
                      last edited by

                      @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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                      • IT-ADMINI
                        IT-ADMIN
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                        what do you mean by pv drivers sir

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                        • DustinB3403D
                          DustinB3403
                          last edited by

                          ParaVirtualized Drivers

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                          • DustinB3403D
                            DustinB3403
                            last edited by

                            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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                            • IT-ADMINI
                              IT-ADMIN @DustinB3403
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                              @DustinB3403 said:

                              http://discussions.citrix.com/topic/239566-what-does-pv-drivers-mean/

                              NOTED
                              thanks for that

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                              • IT-ADMINI
                                IT-ADMIN
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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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                                • IT-ADMINI
                                  IT-ADMIN
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                                  Does all hypervisors consume such memory or only XenServer ???

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                                  • DustinB3403D
                                    DustinB3403
                                    last edited by

                                    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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                                    • DashrenderD
                                      Dashrender
                                      last edited by

                                      Any reason you can't increase the amount of RAM? The cost should be minimal.

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                                      • IT-ADMINI
                                        IT-ADMIN @Dashrender
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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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                                        • MattSpellerM
                                          MattSpeller @Dashrender
                                          last edited by

                                          @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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                                          • MattSpellerM
                                            MattSpeller @IT-ADMIN
                                            last edited by

                                            @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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