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UTM Build HDMI Issue

TomRimmer

Hello

I have had Sophos UTM running on a small test box for a while and have just purchased this bit of hardware;

http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=112


In the hope to run Sophos UTM again but with more NICs etc. It wasn't until installing I stumbled across the threads regarding installing UTM and the HDMI issue (stalling at 66% on hardware detection) that I realised I may have an issue using this hardware :|

The mainboard has no other display options but HDMI, is there any work around at all that will get it up and running?

Is there an option of using Mini PCI-E to VGA and if so would Sophos UTM detect this and would it work?

My other thought was to run up Windows Server on it and run UTM in a VM. To be honest I was trying to avoid this as I wanted it to be a purely Firewall device but if this was the only option I would look at it. Will a virtualised UTM be ok with the fact the Hypervisor only has native HDMI and no VGA/DVI ?



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    Hi, Tom.

    I can only reply your Hyper-V question, since I have never tried to setup a Software UTM on a hardware with HDMI display. Maybe someone else can better answer those questions, but, AFIK, there's no workaround for this HDMI issue so far. 

    Back to Hyper-V, when virtualized, all "hardware" components for the VM are virtualized as well. It will not matter to your UTM VM what lies on the physical layer of your hypervisor. Since UTM has full support for Hyper-V, it will work just fine. But you will suffer a performance penalty of at least 10% due to virtualization.

    Regards - Giovani

  • 0 in reply to giomoda

    I think you will find when you investigate the install logs that the failure has nothing to do with the HDMI interface, but the onboard HPET. I have used that chipset on a couple of very nice boards both failing at 66% and checked the logs to find the HPET is not found.

    Ian

    XG115W - v20.0.2 MR-2 - Home

    XG on VM 8 - v21 GA

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  • 0 in reply to rfcat_vk

    Interesting! yeh I had assumed the issue was HDMI purely as it was the most common issue on the community for the stopping at 66% and the fact this board only has HDMI it added up.

    So with those boards did you end up getting it working by enabling HPET in the BIOS?


    I have the system up and running now via a Windows 10 Hyper-V VM and it works very well. My preference is still to have the Firewall software native on the hardware without virtualization as then it wouldn't have to share the RAM with the Hypervisor and removes a level of complexity and issues with things like Windows updates etc. My assumption is that it would probably reduce power usage as well but I would have to verify that.

    In saying that there is the advantage of being able to easily backup the whole machine with VEEAM and the abililty to migrate the VM to new hardware, but realisitically there is not going to be many hardware configs around with as many LAN ports as this setup.

  • 0 in reply to TomRimmer

    Basically I have found any MB with with the 170 and 150 chipsets will not work with the UTM, but does work with XG.

    But XG has limited functionality.

    Ian

    XG115W - v20.0.2 MR-2 - Home

    XG on VM 8 - v21 GA

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  • 0 in reply to TomRimmer

    Basically I have found any MB with with the 170 and 150 chipsets will not work with the UTM, but does work with XG.

    But XG has limited functionality.

    Ian

    XG115W - v20.0.2 MR-2 - Home

    XG on VM 8 - v21 GA

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  • 0 in reply to rfcat_vk

    Damn! Yeh have considered XG and also Pfsense but I really like the UTM 9.x interface and the inbuilt virus scan management etc is an added bonus.

    The board is such a perfect setup for UTM solution. Would have been good to try that HPET setting in the BIOS but I can't really do that now its being used.

    Am currently waiting for the Vendor to provide feedback from the manufacturer Jetway if they are going to provide drivers for Windows Server 2012R2 as that would be the preferred Hypervisor over Windows 10 the specific Intel lan on board don't have Windows 2012R2 drivers :|

    thanks

  • 0 in reply to TomRimmer

    I tried, but didn't have any luck. Your settings might be different to mine.

    ian

    XG115W - v20.0.2 MR-2 - Home

    XG on VM 8 - v21 GA

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  • 0 in reply to rfcat_vk

    Fair enough! probably good enough reason not to worry about trying any time soon. Pity this thread didn't kick off a few days earlier before I had it all up and running but no stress.

    thanks for your input, hopefully it will help someone else trawling the forum for answers :)

    thanks

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