pfSense packer vagrant box

pfSense vagrant box file creation VirtualBox with Packer

Download ISO manually

As packer is not able to download gzipped ISO files directly, you have to download it manually and extract it to e.g.

wget http://mirror.transip.net/pfsense/downloads/pfSense-CE-2.4.2-RELEASE-amd64.iso.gz -O /mnt/tmp/IMAGES/pfSense-CE-2.4.2-RELEASE-amd64.iso.gz && cd /mnt/tmp/IMAGES && gzip -d pfSense-CE-2.4.2-RELEASE-amd64.iso.gz

Then customize the pfsense-network.json file so packer could find the ISO file locally.

https://www.pfsense.org/download/

Create vagrant box

To build images, simply run.

git clone https://github.com/pwasiewi/packer-pfSense
cd packer-pfSense
export VAGRANT_CLOUD_TOKEN=the token string taken from Vagrant https://app.vagrantup.com/settings/security
#change 42n4 in a template json to your vagrant account name!!
#It uploads the box version based on version number from template.json e.g. "version": "1.8"
packer build -only=virtualbox-iso pfsense-2.4.2-network.json

All packages can be taken from http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:11:x86:64/latest/All/

Pfsense is based on freebsd 11.1 (2.4.2/3 - freebsd 11 release2)

Run Vagrant box (you can omit previous points and use my 42n4/pfsense box)

#pull box from https://app.vagrantup.com (pfsensebeta for testing new releases)
vagrant box add 42n4/pfsense
or
vagrant box add 42n4/pfsensebeta
#get Vagrantfile to an empty directory:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pwasiewi/packer-pfSense/master/Vagrantfile.2routers
ln -sfn Vagrantfile.2routers Vagrantfile (for 42n4/pfsense)
or 
ln -sfn Vagrantfile.2routers.new Vagrantfile (for 42n4/pfsensebeta)
#NIC config in Vagrantfile, change to your settings: I have created boxes in 192.168.0.0/24 network
vagrant destroy -f; vagrant up

In M$Windows: https://www.sitepoint.com/getting-started-vagrant-windows/ - you use putty after converting with puttygen a vagrant openssh key to a putty key

Test ssh

ssh -vvv -C -A -X vagrant@127.0.0.1 -p2222
ssh -vvv fake@getfetch.com

Packer Debug

# Debug for bash etc..
export PACKER_LOG="DEBUG"

# unDebug for bash etc..
export PACKER_LOG=""

config.xml

---

• CPU: 2 Core
• Memory: 2048 MB
• DISK Size: 8192 GB
• ssh enable (LAN Network)
• Time Zone: Europe/Warsaw
• Add package
  • sudo
  • virtualbox-ose-additions-noX11 with all dependencies

OVA information

---

Product	pfSense
Product URL	https://www.pfsense.org
Version	2.4.2
Vendor	@pwasiewi (@FoxBoxsnet fork)
vendor URL	https://github.com/pwasiewi
Repository	https://github.com/pwasiewi/packer-pfSense

NIC

---

json	NET	NIC	MODE
network	WAN	em1	bridged
network	LAN	em2	intnet
network		em3	intnet
network	NAT	em0	nat

adduser

---

username	vagrant
password	vagrant
groupname	admins

LICENCE APACHE @taken from https://github.com/FoxBoxsnet/packer-pfSense and changed a little