pfSense Guest Tools
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I have been using pfSense with xcp-ng for a while now without installing the guest tools.
Due to some networking complications I have decided to install the guest tools to eliminate this as the cause.
Q1) Are the guest tools required on pfSense and what do they do?
Q2) Are these tools being maintained?
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Hi,
Question for @yann
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@McHenry said in pfSense Guest Tools:
I have been using pfSense with xcp-ng for a while now without installing the guest tools.
Due to some networking complications I have decided to install the guest tools to eliminate this as the cause.
Q1) Are the guest tools required on pfSense and what do they do?
Actually no, their main functionnality is to provide some data (memory usage, IPs) to XCP-ng to report them upward, AFAICT, it doesn't impact behavior in a significant way. It's actually not "PV drivers".
Q2) Are these tools being maintained?
This version of the guest agent is very limited and ancient (I don't exactly what it does, but not much IIRC).
We're working on a new guest agent in Rust, which actually works pretty well on Linux, Windows (actually used in latest Windows drivers) and FreeBSD (NetBSD is also possible, but current code lacks some platform-specific bits). But we still need to sort-out some issues (some technical and some others non-technical) before making it broadly available / making it packaged.
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