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Rename a Hyper-V VM Network Adapter
Rename-VMNetworkAdapter -VMName PFSENSE280 -Name "Network Adapter" -NewName "NIC01"
Getting a Hyper-V Hosted PFSense VM to send untagged traffic out the default Non-VLAN interface to the Unifi Native VLAN which isn’t the default VLAN 1
pfSense 2.8.0 CE VM with one interface and wanting to do Router on a Stick in Hyper-V VM Powershell command to configure the Hyper-V VM Network Adapter to allow Multi-VLAN and a default Native VLAN on Unifi # Set Hyper-V adapter to be a trunk port and don't tag...
Don’t trust Embedded Images in Onenote Pages – They Break
Note to self: Avoid using Onenote for critical documentation that includes screenshots and images Onenote isn't reliable I've been using Onenote as a "Daybook" since 2015. Every now and then I look back to find my Notes on things like SSL Cert renewal for a particular...
Some notes on upgrading from pfSense+ 23.05.1 to 25.07 in Azure
Original Configuration A dual interface pfSense install in Azure layout. Internet<= frontend subnet WAN Interface=><=Pfsense=><=LAN Interface backend subnet=>Protected LAN Package Update Causes Failure I made the mistake of doing a package upgrade on...
Hyper-V Manager VM State Column displays “cannot connect to virtual machine configuration storage” on first startup after reboot
TLDR; Check your disk I/O or you'll spend hours fault finding for naught The following are stream of consciousness notes of attempts to get a Hyper-V Ubuntu 25.04 VM working when the root cause was disk I/O exhaustion Weird Issues Observed A whole bunch of issues...
Very Slow Performance of Fedora 41, 42 and Ubuntu 24.04, 25.04 Guests on Hyper-V on Windows 11 Enterprise
TLDR; This turned out to be a disk I/O starvation problem. You can leave your VM at 4096MB as long as you have decent fast disk to run from. TLDR; Give your VM's 9216MB of RAM instead of the default 4096MB Just spent an hour or so trying to install F41,42 and...