Hi folks, I have a bit doubt about Virtual Routers. Can I usage an distribuition as Virtual Router? Os is there any special think in Alpine Linux image? My idea is usage Vyatta image or FreeBSD, PFSense, and others (supported by vSphere) Is it possible? Best regards, -Carlos

Hi Carlos, though I’m no expert with vcenter I’ll try to give you my two cents. In short I’d recommend you to use the Virtual Router, which is an Alpine Linux image created by the OpenNebula team, for many reasons: It’s available in the marketplace, It’s documented and… that is always great …

Hello Miguel, Thank you so much by your comment, It was very nice for me. I realize some tests with “Virtual Router” image and it works very nice. Now I 'm testing “PFSense” as router/firewall, and it is working very well too, except “contextualization” I 'm deciding if I will work with contextu…

Awesome! I tried to create a PFSense image a long long time ago I’ll try to look for my notes if they haven’t lost in Oblivion. I think the tricky point is to find when and where is the right place to put the contextualization package in pfSense. Usually it won’t be difficult to create one for PFS…

@mcabrerizo Nice to know that you tried it. I will try investigate better it, and report you about my tests. Currently the image it is working without problerm. look :slight_smile: [image] Cheers, -Carlos

@mcabrerizo It seems PFSense does not identify the with label CONTEXT Like this this one checking slob/freebsd-one-context/blob/master/files/vmcontext.in#L65-L76 if [ -e /dev/iso9660/CONTEXT ]; then mount -t cd9660 -o ro /dev/iso9660/CONTEXT /mnt if [ -f /mnt/context.sh ]; then …

Hi! Sorry to hear that :frowning:. In a few days I’ll try to have time to play with vCenter and I’ll try to create a pfSense appliance. If I get it working I’ll update this topic. See ya!

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ccesario (Carlos Cesario) October 5, 2016, 1:43pm 9

Hi @mcabrerizo,

I appreciate your help!!

See ya!!

-Carlos

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