Hyper-V Program Manager
The other day I setup a virtual machine running SmoothWall Express 3.0 under Hyper-V. If you are not familiar with this OS – let me be lazy and quote Wikipedia:
SmoothWall is a Linux distribution designed to be used as an open source firewall. Designed for ease of use, SmoothWall is configured via a web-based GUI, and requires little or no knowledge of Linux to install or use.
I wanted to play around with it to see if I could set it up as a filtering proxy; so I downloaded the installation ISO file and tried to install it in a Hyper-V virtual machine.
I created a virtual machine with 512MB RAM, a 127GB dynamically expanding virtual hard disk, 1 CPU and two legacy network adapters connected to different networks.
For the most part, it “just worked”. The installation was a very traditional Linux installation process (contrary to the Wikipedia quote above) and I only encountered two hiccups:
But I now have it up and running perfectly:
And it is functioning as a filtering proxy. Now I just have to wade through mountains of configuration files to actually get it to filter the right things :-)
Cheers, Ben
And I just went and got a SonicWALL to throw in front of my Hyper-V server! Very neat idea.
Do any of these Linux firewall appliances actually run successfully in "enlightened" mode under Hyper-V? It'd be a lot smoother, and probably, more performant if they did.
Well I've setup untangle (in bridging mode) and have to have the checkbox checked (MAC Spoofing) but I haven't tried something as a Router with or without the setting yet.
Andy -
There are none that I know of. It should be possible to install the Linux integration service - but that would involve recompiling code - which is something that I am not allowed to do :-)
Cheers,
Ben
With the Linux Integration Components 2.0 it is possible to enlighten ipfire. But you have to setup a development system to compile the drivers. Another solution is to use Endian with a Debian Kernel. I have tried both and it works pretty good, but it is a lot of work.
my smoothwall doesnt show any graphical configuraions windows.
and I am not very aware with linux commands.
reza -
Smoothwall is managed using a web browser on another computer. That said - I would like to ask that if anyone has questions about how to use smoothwall that they go to the smoothwall forums: community.smoothwall.org/forum
Could you be more specific about what "kick the network detection routine" means. How did you do it exactly?
Hi,
Does it supported by Microsoft on Hyper-V virtual machine ?
Thanks
Regards
BG
BG -
Supported by Microsoft? Absolutely not, but it does work.
As Raith also asked, could you be more specific as to what you meant by having to "kick" the network detection routine?
Just installed Smoothwall Express on a Hyper-V VM and ran across the NIC detection problem.
Stopped the VM, removed the virtual NICs and replaced them with 'legacy' adapters.
Now works a treat.