FAILED running virtually on BAREMETAL

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My ipfire install is running directly on hardware but FAILS as if it is in a vm.

Any idea’s?

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ipfire runs on a pc with two network cards or can run in a virtual environment (VirtualBox or Proxmox) with 2 virtual interfaces. See ipfire wiki pages … wiki.ipfire.org - Oracle Virtual Box

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Its on a pc with two interfaces not in a vm but on boot it fails virtual test

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what is a “virtual test” ? Many run ipfire configurations on a pc with 2 interfaces, the red is connected to the host network or DHCP from your ISP and the green is your LAN.

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Whrn booting on local pc you see services loaded etc. One item is a test to check if you are running in a virtual machine and my install says I am as the test fails. When installed on virtualbox I get the same failed message. Unless i am missing something

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Here’s the wiki how to install ipfire … wiki.ipfire.org - Installation

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I am not having installation issues.

I am making it known that the POST message ipfire gives during boot to notify the user that the installation is on a VIRTUAL MACHINE is displayed all the SAME ON PHYSICAL HARDWARE!

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Is it possible to take a picture of that message and upload it here?

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If the message is

“IPFire is not running in a virtual machine.”

then this only comes from the openvmtools addon initscript which means that it is trying to start openvmtools which can only work if it is present on a virtual machine.

To stop this message being seen you should uninstall the openvmtools addon

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:+1:

Thanks Adolf that was the problem.