topic Re: Hypervisors for running gateways and SMS in Firewall & Security Management

Hypervisors for running gateways and SMS

StevePearson — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 21:32:51 GMT

Upto now I've always used VMware as my hypervisor of choice for building gateways and management servers in my lab, however with the current direction that Broadcom are taking VMware I think it's time for a change. My initial thought was Proxmox, and I see on here people are using this without issue, but I was wondering if anyone has ever tried installing gateways and SMS on Unraid as the hypervisor?

Re: Hypervisors for running gateways and SMS

the_rock — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 23:23:00 GMT

I personally always use eve-ng, its the BEST...just my opinion. But, to answer your question, I know customer that did use Unraid and they said was fine, no issues,

Re: Hypervisors for running gateways and SMS

PhoneBoy — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 23:58:47 GMT

Promox, Unraid, and even @the_rock's favorite EVE-NG all use KVM under the hood.
Which means it should work.

Re: Hypervisors for running gateways and SMS

the_rock — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:01:55 GMT

Anyone I showed eve-ng to LOVED it, just saying.

Re: Hypervisors for running gateways and SMS

StevePearson — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:04:22 GMT

Thanks Andy, never come across this but looks pretty impressive, so that's my weekend sorted, plying with a new toy!

Re: Hypervisors for running gateways and SMS

the_rock — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:13:36 GMT

Im telling you, its GREAT!

Re: Hypervisors for running gateways and SMS

the_rock — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:20:07 GMT

Personally, even if yearly license was 1000$, I would still argue its worth it, and its about 300, so thats worth it every penny, in my humble opinion 🙂

Re: Hypervisors for running gateways and SMS

Bob_Zimmerman — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 19:26:27 GMT

Hyper-V also definitely works. Some older CloudGuard images seem to think any Hyper-V host is Azure, but installing from ISO always works, and newer CloudGuard images work.

I haven't had time to try FreeBSD/illumos' bhyve or OpenBSD's vmd(8). The former is very likely to work. I suspect the latter would take substantial effort.

VirtualBox works, but it's mediocre all around.

Re: Hypervisors for running gateways and SMS

CheckPointerXL — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 23:26:55 GMT

eve-ng caused a lot of disk corruption into my checkpoint qemu vms in my experience

now happy with gns3

Re: Hypervisors for running gateways and SMS

the_rock — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 23:30:43 GMT

Never had issue personally.

Re: Hypervisors for running gateways and SMS

Ingard — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 08:20:48 GMT

Yes, Hyper-V definitely works.