Hello,
I had some HW breakdown that led me to temporary run OpnSense as a VM under Unraid.
This works OK as such but have some weird issue seen when I try to start a reboot or shutdown from the Web GUI.
Regardless if I click on Reboot or Power Off nothing happens (apart from web gui saying that it is shutting down)
if I check the console. No messages indicating that the system is about to go down or reboot.
I have waited for a long time but still nothing happens.
If I then, from the console, try to reboot or power off then I could see that it starts to go down as it should.
is there anyone else who have seen this issue ?
Either as VM or on native HW.
Best regards
Dan Lundqvist
Stockholm, Sweden
Is ACPI enabled for your VM?
Quote from: Patrick M. Hausen on June 22, 2026, 09:12:42 PMIs ACPI enabled for your VM?
I think so, but will doublecheck.
However, as I mentioned, it is not that it hangs anywhere in the shutdown, but rather that it does not indicating anything in the console that a shutdown has been initiated and it just stays forever (when selected from webGUI). WebGUI says shutdown in progress, but console says nothing.
BUT, if I select shutdown from the console it immediately starts showing that a shutdown sequence has started and stopping everything and finally shuts down/ powers off.
I do have some issues with Suricata PID takes forever to die but that is a separate topic. 🙂
Best regards
Dan Lundqvist
Has your OPNsense installed the os-vmware plugin?