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Hi Maurice,
I've used your QEMU qcow2 image within an aarch64 installation of Proxmox which manages to boot up and can get to the main OPNsense dashboard, however I'm having some issues with obtaining a WAN connection through PPPoE. I'm using the virtio bridge networks in Proxmox, similar to how the PFsense documentation mentions (two physical NICs on my arm device, two bridge interfaces in proxmox (one for LAN, one for WAN) and LAN is working with no issues, however having some issues with the WAN connection. It could be my lack of knowledge of OPNsense but I was thinking to try on bare-metal and see if anything changes.
You mentioned a few posts ago that if you could get FreeBSD booted up on the device, then you might be able to get OPNsense working. I found some UEFI firmware for my device which I have flashed and can boot FreeBSD using the image FreeBSD-14.3-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-dvd1.iso, however when trying to bootstrap OPNsense after that using the official tool, it says this is only compatible with amd64. I was thinking I could use your repository to get the correct packages in order to bootstrap OPNsense on my aarch64 EFI installation I managed to get working.
Apologies if these are dumb questions. This is my first adventure into the world of BSD and working with arm architecture in general so if you have a general direction I could go in that would be great.
I've used your QEMU qcow2 image within an aarch64 installation of Proxmox which manages to boot up and can get to the main OPNsense dashboard, however I'm having some issues with obtaining a WAN connection through PPPoE. I'm using the virtio bridge networks in Proxmox, similar to how the PFsense documentation mentions (two physical NICs on my arm device, two bridge interfaces in proxmox (one for LAN, one for WAN) and LAN is working with no issues, however having some issues with the WAN connection. It could be my lack of knowledge of OPNsense but I was thinking to try on bare-metal and see if anything changes.
You mentioned a few posts ago that if you could get FreeBSD booted up on the device, then you might be able to get OPNsense working. I found some UEFI firmware for my device which I have flashed and can boot FreeBSD using the image FreeBSD-14.3-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-dvd1.iso, however when trying to bootstrap OPNsense after that using the official tool, it says this is only compatible with amd64. I was thinking I could use your repository to get the correct packages in order to bootstrap OPNsense on my aarch64 EFI installation I managed to get working.
Apologies if these are dumb questions. This is my first adventure into the world of BSD and working with arm architecture in general so if you have a general direction I could go in that would be great.
Quote from: Maurice on August 26, 2025, 01:51:09 AMPlease be aware that this little project is about OPNsense aarch64 sets and packages (as well as VM images), not about hardware-specific / bare-metal images.
As a first step, you'll have to do your own research about booting a general-purpose OS (BSD, Linux) on this appliance. If such a project exists or you figure it out yourself, then running OPNsense might be possible.
4 GB RAM is sufficient, I maintain some OPNsense systems with 2 GB or less for small setups.
