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Hardware and Performance / Re: [Work In Progress] OPNsense Ported into ARM Devices

« on: August 07, 2021, 10:37:02 pm »

Amazing - thanks for the link. That's working perfectly.

In case anyone else sees this, I had to temporarily enable the FreeBSD pkg repo in /usr/local/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf in order to install some dependancies.

Also, looks like the PR the author of the post you linked to submitted in to the open-vm-tools repo was merged and is released in version 11.3.0 of open-vm-tools. Does this help unlock the official opnsense plugin at all?

Many thanks!

The plugin depends on open-vm-tools-nox11, currently not supported on aarch64.

However, there are patches out there that you can install on aarch64. See https://vincerants.com/open-vm-tools-on-freebsd-under-vmware-esxi-arm-fling/.

I have recently built a version 21.1 test image for rpi3 (may also work on rpi4).

Feel free to try it, and don't forget to modify config.txt before the first run .

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update on 2021-02-24

An updated image is now out, which works properly on rpi3b+ with the advice of @testo_cz.

Moreover, after the first boot, add `hw.uart.console=""` to /boot/loader.conf.local or the console will goes nowhere in the next boot.

Finally, you can use https://ftp.yrzr.tk/opnsense/ as the Repo to get almost all the plugins as if on amd64. Edit /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/OPNsense.conf:

Code: [Select]

OPNsense: {
  fingerprints: "/usr/local/etc/pkg/fingerprints/OPNsense",
  url: "https://ftp.yrzr.tk/opnsense/${ABI}/21.1/latest",
  signature_type: "NONE",
  mirror_type: "NONE",
  priority: 11,
  enabled: yes
}
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update on 2021-03-25

Thanks to @nekoprog's code and @testo_cz's advice, the RPI3 images now work fine with the serial console.

I have also made a rough introduction to the images on https://www.yrzr.tk/opnsense-images-for-aarch64.

Thanks @yrzr for this amazing work and for hosting the arm64 repo! I have opnsense 21.7 up and running happily on my rpi4 under ESXi.

Only thing I was wondering is if there is a reason the "os-vmware" plugin isn't available in your repo? It would be great to get vmware tools going too. I can have a go at compiling and installing vmwtools by hand, but it would be even better if this was possible through opnsense's ui.

Many thanks!

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Hardware and Performance / Re: [Work In Progress] OPNsense Ported into ARM Devices

« on: August 06, 2021, 09:47:58 am »

I have recently built a version 21.1 test image for rpi3 (may also work on rpi4).

Feel free to try it, and don't forget to modify config.txt before the first run .

------------

update on 2021-02-24

An updated image is now out, which works properly on rpi3b+ with the advice of @testo_cz.

Moreover, after the first boot, add `hw.uart.console=""` to /boot/loader.conf.local or the console will goes nowhere in the next boot.

Finally, you can use https://ftp.yrzr.tk/opnsense/ as the Repo to get almost all the plugins as if on amd64. Edit /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/OPNsense.conf:

Code: [Select]

OPNsense: {
  fingerprints: "/usr/local/etc/pkg/fingerprints/OPNsense",
  url: "https://ftp.yrzr.tk/opnsense/${ABI}/21.1/latest",
  signature_type: "NONE",
  mirror_type: "NONE",
  priority: 11,
  enabled: yes
}
------------

update on 2021-03-25

Thanks to @nekoprog's code and @testo_cz's advice, the RPI3 images now work fine with the serial console.

I have also made a rough introduction to the images on https://www.yrzr.tk/opnsense-images-for-aarch64.

Thanks @yrzr for this amazing work and for hosting the arm64 repo! I have opnsense 21.7 up and running happily on my rpi4 under ESXi.

Only thing I was wondering is if there is a reason the "os-vmware" plugin isn't available in your repo? It would be great to get vmware tools going too. I can have a go at compiling and installing vmwtools by hand, but it would be even better if this was possible through opnsense's ui.

Many thanks!