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[tirsojrp]

Doesn't work.

Have you tried with an old PCI SATA controller?

[SkyNET]

Indeed, I also was thinking about that solution. Badly enough I don't have any laying around anymore.

Momentarily I'm going to use this machine with Proxmox. I still have to do some research on linking the physical interfaces to the PfSense VM.
I want to use the 2 onboard nics for WAN & LAN. And I put an extra PCI NIC in the machine for all other VM's.

If I made any progress I will post it here or make a new thread for Pfsense&Proxmox
Thanks for the help!

[bigbird007]

Would be nice to have X9SBAA-F hardware supported.
More and more ppl are starting to buy the X9SBAA-F because it offers so much for so little power.

[SkyNET]

I have tested PfSense 2.0.3 x64 in a Proxmox VE 2.3 Virtual Machine.

Using VMBR0 and VMBR1 for WAN/LAN.

Throughput is about 30MBit and CPU load is about 70%. (4 threads)
I think it's not very efficient to run a FreeBSD based VM on a Linux host.
Although it should work, it does not perform great.

Perhaps there are some performance tweaks that I can apply to Debian based "Proxmox"
For now I would rather host PfSense physically on this nice hardware!

[SkyNET]

Changing the PfSense-VM's CPU type to core2duo speed's up boot times in Proxmox.
It does not preform better with WAN/LAN speeds though.

I should probably resume this conversation in the "Virtualization installations and techniques" section.

For now I will try a PCI-USB card for USB-Keyboard input.
Strange thing is.. This board supports IPMI, witch can be used to remote install and control the system.
The IPMI web interface provides you with a java-based screen for remote access.
There is also an option for adding a virtual keyboard for use with mouse inputs.
This works in the BIOS menu's and on a physical Debian install.

When booting PfSense, this keyboard does not respond to any input anymore. Witch is strange.

Anyone got lucky with this board yet? I would love to read it here 

[bigbird007]

I have not had any luck as of yet with this board ( X9SBAA-F ).

[rgrobbel]

I would normally get this error when I had a bad/failed hard drive.

Can you use a FreeBSD LiveCD or gparted and format the HD and then try to install it? At least it will help with the mount pathing as well if you still get the same error.

Also, http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1u/5015/sys-5015a-ehf-d525.cfm has dual NIC's and IPMI, works with pfSense 2.0.x as well.

[SkyNET]

Before I install PfSense I usually use a GParted CD to format the disk to a UFS filesystem.

Momentarily I'm running "Nas4Free" on a USB stick on this Supermicro board witch is based on : FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE
Everything work great. To bad PfSense is not working properly yet on this board. Although it's a small problem.

If I could fill in the basic's like,
* Would you like to use VLANS
* Setup WAN
* Setup LAN
* Setup LAN DHCP

The rest can be done trough the web-interface. Can I compile a PfSense CD with my own config-file so no input is needed?
Maybe to much trouble for such a small thing. But this board is perfect for running PfSense 24/7.