Hello all,
I am in the process of trying to build a virtual OPNsense firewall, on my VMware virtualization server. I get thru the boot and when in the installer I get the following error msg when trying to begin the install on the disk partition I have assigned to the vm configuration. I have no idea why I am getting stuck on the GPT/UEFI part. What am I missing?
Thanks,
Steve
If you are setting up a VM with EFI then you need to add a UEFI disk as part of the VM, i.e. in the hypervisor.
You can of course set the VM as BIOS and still use GPT as a partitioning scheme.
Stupid question...
I do not see any place in the VMware GUI that lets me change from UEFI to BIOS. Where is that?
Settings, VM options, boot ... or similar. I'm writing from memory.
My homelab ESXi hosts are powered down to save electricity (beasty guzzlers) and I re-created most VMs on smaller and consumer parts for now. I'm using Proxmox on them. On proxmox it is as simple as "Add EFI disk"
Found it...but here is the funky problem. It is set to BIOS, so UEFI should not be called up. So a few more questions:
1) Should I be installing with ZFS or UFS?
2) Has anyone tried to build a vm with the 23.1 iso? I wonder if I have found a bug?
I tend to use GPT for partitioning scheme anyways and all my machines that can use ZFS, I default to it. It's just great as a filesystem, even if I won't benefit from the volume management on single disk.
Just make sure the image you're using is right.
And in my opinion, I hardly ever am on the latest of systems unless it is for testing.
I'd go for 22.7
Keep in mind that you should thick provision your virtual disk for ZFS, not thin.
Just found that out...I am picking ZFS with the stripe option, since I am using one disk. It looks like UFS option does not work for a vm any longer.