

However, I am writing this how-to more from an evaluation point of view so it will not likely work well for you if you wish to deploy a virtualized OPNsense as your primary router/firewall. I hope this how-to will help get you started if you are planning to use Proxmox. You may have various reasons for wanting to virtualize OPNsense. I need to take screenshots of the web interface as well as the ability to change settings without impacting my home network. Now that I run Proxmox on my server instead of Ubuntu (I still use Ubuntu for many of my LXCs/VMs on Proxmox), I wanted to run OPNsense on Proxmox so I may use when writing content for this site. I wrote about running OPNsense in VirtualBox. Have you wanted to take a look at OPNsense without installing it to a dedicated machine and/or deploying it as your primary home router/firewall? The easiest way to evaluate OPNsense without installing it on separate hardware is to virtualize it.
