[SOLVED] Impossible to install OPNSense under bhyve using iso image

[guest15512]

Hi all,

I want to setup a lab using two OPNSense CARP'ed firewalls under a bhyve host. But when I launch installation from iso image file (latest release 17.7.5), there is no login prompt created and it is not possible to install or to do anything ...

If I remeber well, with first 17.7.X releases there is no problem ... Is it possible to solve this?

Thanks

[bartjsmit]

You need to provide more information. What happens between booting the ISO image (which one, BTW?) and the stage where you find yourself unable to do anything?

Bart...

[franco]

Sure, bhyve needs the serial image as it doesn't support VGA console.


Cheers,
Franco

[guest15512]

Thanks franco. But I have tried to boot from serial image, without luck:

Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
nvme cam probe device init
cd0 at ahcich0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
cd0: <BHYVE BHYVE DVD-ROM 001> Removable CD-ROM SCSI device
cd0: Serial Number BHYVE-C11D-B272-294D
cd0: 600.000MB/s transfers (SATA 3.x, UDMA6, ATAPI 12bytes, PIO 8192bytes)
cd0: 885MB (453184 2048 byte sectors)
taskqgroup_adjust failed cnt: 1 stride: 1 mp_ncpus: 1 smp_started: 0
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1899712977 Hz quality 1000
taskqgroup_adjust failed cnt: 1 stride: 1 mp_ncpus: 1 smp_started: 0
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufs/OPNsense_Install [ro,noatime]...
g_vfs_done():ufs/OPNsense_Install[READ(offset=294912, length=1024)]error = 22
Mounting from ufs:/dev/ufs/OPNsense_Install failed with error 22.

Loader variables:
  vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/ufs/OPNsense_Install
  vfs.root.mountfrom.options=ro,noatime

Manual root filesystem specification:
  <fstype>:<device> [options]
      Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
      and with the specified (optional) option list.

    eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a
        zfs:tank
        cd9660:/dev/cd0 ro
          (which is equivalent to: mount -t cd9660 -o ro /dev/cd0 /)

  ?               List valid disk boot devices
  .               Yield 1 second (for background tasks)
  <empty line>    Abort manual input

[franco]

Hi,

Not sure how you configure / run it, but I'm 99% sure this works:

https://github.com/opnsense/tools/blob/master/build/boot.sh#L43-L51

But you should bump the main memory to at least 1024 for a good clean install.


Cheers,
Franco

[guest15512]

Ok, done. I have configured usb disk image as a ahci-hd and it works. Many thanks Franco.

[franco]

Ok, great. Forgot to mention we just use this for QA so network setup et al needs to be adjusted, too. :)


Cheers,
Franco