VMware Workstation 16 Pro is popular software that allows you to run multiple different virtual machines on physical hosts using the concept of Type II of hypervisors (Hosted Hypervisors).
Note: You need to have admin rights, in order to change the settings.This tutorial will show you how to install VMware Workstation 16 Pro on RHEL/CentOS, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, and Linux Mint. In the Virtual Network Editor click on Change settings. Open VMware Workstation and click on Edit > Virtual Network editor. You need to disable the DHCP service on the VMnet1 first. By default, the VMnet1 will act as DHCP server for the Virtual machine.
As a workaround, you could use the NAT interface if the bridge interface doesn’t work. There are times the bridge interface may not work well, and you can follow the guide here to troubleshoot the problem. Your local router will assign an IP address on the WAN side.
You can download the Pfsense image from here, make sure you choose AMD64, DVD image(iso) installer.
In VMware, you can pretty much run any operating system virtually. Does PfSense work well with VMware workstation?
Since the VMware fusion works the same way as the workstation, the steps performed here are identical for MAC machines.
In this blog, we are going to install the pfSense firewall on a VMware workstation. If it is MAC, then VMware fusion (follow the same guide here) or VirtualBox. You could use VMware workstation pro, VirtualBox, or a Hyper-V. You can virtualize PfSense on windows in multiple ways. What if you have windows or a MAC machine, how do you virtualize PfSense on them? If you are using Linux, you can prefer the KVM method to virtualize the PfSense in your environment.
However, some of you out there, may not have an old PC lying around, and if that’s the case and you wanted to start the pfSense firewall journey, the option you have is by virtualizing them. Since it is open-source, there is no cost associated with it, and you can build a zero-dollar firewall setup by using the old computer as the firewall. But once you make it up and running, it works just great. Setting up for the first time would be the difficult part for many. I have been running pfSense as my home firewall for quite some time now.