pfSense 2.3.4 Installation Step-by-Step VMWare Workstation 12

Hey guys, what is up? Stefan here with another PFSense tutorial

This time I will install PFSense version 2.3.4 as a virtual machine in VMware Workstation

12 Pro. I actually just do this video because I need to install it anyway and the last installation

video was on version 2.3.3 so I doubt that that much has changed but anyway we

want to keep it up to date so I'll just put out another video and you can follow

along through the installation process. So let's get right started I think this

will be the fastest pf sense installation tutorial so far I will try

to make this as quick as possible so after you started workstation 12 pro

click on create a new virtual machine leave that on typical click on next now

Now choose the ISO file of PFSense. We have version 2.3.4 here

It's the newest version at this moment as of mid-July 2017. Click on next

Now we need to choose a kernel version which is in this case other and FreeBSD 64-bit

Click on next. Give it a name. In my case it will be labpfsense

choose a location where you want to save the VM. I choose my SSD drive

There is still an old one so I just put it in a subfolder. LabSense whatever cares

I will give it around 4GB should be perfectly fine. We want to store the

virtual disk in a single file click on next now customize hardware so because this is a router we need one more than one network interface So what we want to do first is click on add down here and choose network adapter Next we put it in

VMNet one which is a host only network because this is a lab environment in your case it depends

what your usage is you usually can choose bridged which which directly connects the virtual interface

to your internal network so it acts like the device is plugged into your switch basically

or you use net which is obvious so whatever you need you can just choose it as i said we choose

the internal network in here connect that power on is checked perfect we click on finish and i will

add another interface because I need three interfaces for now. Same thing, VMNet1 host only

and we will also adjust the network mode of the first adapter to VMNet1

So memory-wise I would say go for at least one gigabyte. It's okay, it's fast enough for the

beginning you can still adjust that later processors are always like to give it

two course one processor two course and that's really all what we need to do

here click on close click on finish and shoot up the virtual machine

confirm that it auto detected those devices plugged into your computer then

Then you can just wait or press 1. Again you can just wait 10 seconds or you press I for launch the installer because we don want to enter recovery mode in this case Alright so the only thing I do here is change the key map for me

because I'm in Germany so I want to have my German Quartz keyboard

I choose German.iso, you can adjust it however you want. It's the only thing I do here and accept these settings

Then we want to do a quick and easy install and we confirm that we are aware everything gets erased on the hard disk

Now it takes a short moment. We will get asked another question before the installation routine finally starts

And that's which kernel we want to install. In this case we want to install the standard kernel

The embedded kernel is only for physical devices that are without a VGA interface

or without the capability to attach a keyboard to them. So hit standard kernel and wait until it's finished

We fast forward. That's it, few more steps. Hit reboot. After rebooting we have to do a few more short steps to set up our interfaces or assign our

interfaces and then we are basically done with the installation. Alright, so apparently in this release we don't even need to assign the interfaces anymore

manually it will be assigned automatically as you can see here so it assigned the first

interface as a WAN interface and the second interface as your LAN interface

We have one more interface as an OPT interface which is not assigned yet

You can see here that the LAN interface has the IP address 192.168.1

DHCP is usually enabled by default so if we now boot up our Ubuntu installation we should

be able to get an IP address from our pfsense and be able to connect to the web interface

Also note that you need the login password which usually was probably written somewhere here in the bootup process but it admin and pfsense as a login In the meanwhile I started up

the Ubuntu installation which resides in the same host only network than the

pfsense and we should now have got an IP address from our pfsense DHCP server

We can check that by hitting the Windows key type terminal and write I have

config so we got 192.168.1.100.2 this seems pretty much like the pfsense DHCP

range so we can now open up a web browser and try to connect to our pfsense or web

interface and you get the warning there you click on advanced it's perfectly

fine don't worry about that confirm security exception I have a video up on

how you get the connection secured I will link it below in the

description it's very easy to do and login with admin and pf sense all small

letters then we can choose to go through the installation or configuration

wizard which I will not do now so you just click on here pf sense and you can

continue with one of my other videos which will show you how to set up an

internet connection it depends on your ISP and you can follow through my other

tutorial so this was it for the very basic installation you can see that our

LAN and our WAN interface are up so that's perfect and that concludes this

very short tutorial this time so as always guys you know what to do if you

liked this video give it a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel and stay tuned

for the next one let's see if we can make it even faster in the next

installation video see you then