Home license on XGS hardware - did anyone get this running?

Plenty of near new appliances end up on ebay when companies fold, kit gets gathered by clearance companies, some companies may change firewalls out ever few years to a different solutions, there are a few XGS appliances on ebay now.....must resist buying....it would be good for the homelab community if these devices could be leveraged instead of having to get the nonames from aliexpress or the older SG/XG units

This would be a feature request, I guess. As home users do not have the possibility to file a feature request, and you (JimtheITguy) happen to be a Sophos Silver Partner, maybe you can do so? If you have actually access to this channel, that is. 

Cheers,

Oliver

I don't think Sophos is interrested in making SFOS SW compatible on XGS devices.

On the other side it also would not harm them, but also not creating more money.

For the sophos loving fan boys like me it is an absolutely win to use a home lic on a dedicated sophos appliance, but only for prestige. It also would run great on my hypervisor or on another 19" firewall / server appliance.

I also think that sophos home is not the darling and favourite on the product list and roadmap for all upper heads from sophos empire, because not only "home users" are using thouse licenses, but also smaller companies which want to save money.

A good compromise would be to offer new type of licenses for "power users", charging few bucks and also offer a possibility to usage on a xgs.

It generally would be better charging home licenses a little bit, offering no tec support, only support here by its own and the community...better than a sudden cancellation of home lic in future.

That is not the point of Sophos Home licenses.

Essentially the approach from Sophos is: We are offering a free usage of our full service product with no charge for our products. 

As this product does not intend to make money, it is not something Sophos is willing to invest money into. Building a charging service and the backend + adjusting the Central component to support a charging system is something, which costs resources to develop.

Sophos never supported Home on a hardware platform - Because this would mean, we would have to build a new licensing system to support this. 

It is about the balance of being mindful of your resources and how much money you get back.

The commitment was always to offer the firewall as a free service and starting to charge it has the downside of above, that you would then have to invest in the first place. 

Astaro (bought by Sophos) originally charged a nominal fee for the home licence but stooped when the load became too large and was seen as a lose making product, so moved to the free licence which Sophos has basically cotinued.

Ian

I tried to install the SW Image on a virtual XGS126, the installer failed, hardware detected.

After setting some UEFI/DMI Vars in this virtual XGS126, i was able to install the SW Image v21.0 EAP1 on this virtual XGS126.
But i don´t have a XGS hardware available right now, in a few weeky i get two XGS2100 Models.

Hi Jürgen,

please let is know the outcome and which variables you had to modify (and how), once you were able to try this on the hardware models. 

Grüße,

Oliver

I was able to install the SW image on a 126XGS this way. But network cards are no longer recognized.

Hi Andreas,

this means you now got a firewall without network connectivity?

Yes, unfortunately, but I'm currently trying to get the drivers from the HW image into the SW image. Then the networks should work again, hopefully.