Putting firewalla on a virtual machine (vm ware, virtual box etc.)

[CapnBio]

Would there be a way to install firewalla on a virtual machine at home to be able to experience your 2 gigabit network with this software? I mean I would probably assume you could, maybe you can just get Debian or Ubuntu since you are able to run it on a raspberry pi.

[niulin]

Fantastic idea!

[CapnBio]

Trying this out with both Debian and Ubuntu leaves no success with the app finding the server, I even tried out with the raspbian image, and that still did not work out.

Makes me wonder if there is a hostname or a specific protocol that is missing with the raspi or ubuntu

[MelvinTo]

app and vm need to be in the same subnet, did you bridge the ethernet of the virtual box image with the host machine?

also we don't have official x86_64 node modules, you need to build it by yourself.

ubuntu is preferred over debian.

[blaineam]

How would I license the vm for use with the app? Also do you have a recommended version of Ubuntu? Is 18 too new?

[blaineam]

I tried it with 18:04 and got an endless boot cycle so ssh'd into my blue and noticed it was running 16:04 LTS custom image just tried it and noticed the image I had for ubuntu didn't have curl so adding that helped, I then noticed it didn't have ntp so adding that helped the brofish service. however starting up the Firewalla service immediately causes an endless reboot cycle off of the release_6_0 branch I'm going to give master a go on 16:04 LTS after installing ntp and curl in addition to git and see how far that goes.

[nnsense]

I've installed Firewalla on a NEO2, which is probably the same hardware Firewall is being sold commercially. It works but there's no way to pair the phone and create the licence file, the QR code is refused. Firewalla support (which states on their site they would provide a licence if needed) answered they aren't providing any licence for hardware other than their.
Basically, everyone who's trying to make this working on any different hardware (or VM, docker, etc) is doomed to fail, keep this in mind.

[blaineam]

kept trying to repair the bro(Zeek) installation but now it just gets stuck on starting bro. no other output so I am stuck and like you mentioned about the license there is no point until they start offering licensing for their app to communicate with the Firewalla. I think licensing a vm image would be awesome means to boost throughput.

[CapnBio]

I am quite surprised this got a little bit of attention, I was actually using ubuntu 16.04 since it was the one I already had laying around in my downloads folder.

[ceyo14]

I would love this, I would replace my Untangle VM with this if possible. You can do the same pricing for Home Pro users it would be great!

[danysz]

+1