pfSense

During the HD install process, if you choose "custom" install then the option to do embedded install exists which turns on the serial port. Does this not work for you?

Chris Palmer wrote:

During the HD install process, if you choose "custom" install then the option to do embedded install exists which turns on the serial port. Does this not work for you?

To do that pfsense will have to be installed before the network is set up to go through it, as proxmox only gives VGA console via web interface.

Chris Buechler wrote:

there's a serial memstick for this purpose. The ISO generally fine without serial console with Proxmox too, though that might depend on your Proxmox setup.

ISO's on the way out eventually in favor of memstick, not something we'll be adding to it.

The ISO works as long as you can reach the proxmox web interface to get the VGA console, which means you have to install and enable serial console before you take away the NIC from proxmox and give it to pfsense. No way to control pfsense without serial from the proxmox host without network, or a desktop environment on the proxmox host.

If iso's are on the way out I guess there is little chance of another serial activated iso to be generated.

You should be able to install from the serial memstick in that situation no problem.

Chris Buechler wrote:

You should be able to install from the serial memstick in that situation no problem.

I suppose I could trick proxmox into booting the memstick by overwriting the vm disk image as a work around, not the most elegant of ways to do things, but I guess that's the way it must go for now.