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RE: [Xen-users] pfSense HVM

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Subject: RE: [Xen-users] pfSense HVM
From: Mike Viau <viaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 16:11:02 -0400
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> On Fri, 28 May 2010 20:59:33 +0200 <niv@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> actually, i use pfSense in hvm quite a while... it works.

Yep it did work well when I tried using pfSense in hvm too. Network throughput was fast and solid too.

>
> > My idea would be to use PCI-Passthrough to the pfsense DomU, and only
> > make the Dom0 accessable via the pfsense firewall
>
> make sure, you can access that dom0 in event of emergency. If anything
> happens to your pfsense, which is possible, you probably can't access
> your dom0 anymore and are stuck and thats probably not what you want.

This is true. You could setup a dummy vif as in the domU to access the dom0


-M


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