Virtio NIC Driver for Sophos XG?

Hi,

I think you need to do a search of google. My reading is those drivers are primarily for windows machines working in KVM and later in Linux as a host. There does not appear to be any drivers for linux as a guest.

Ian

Virtio Drivers are also needet in Linux-Systems to get a performant paravirtualisied Device.

But it is necesarry to enable it in the Linux-Kernel. This time I find no Information in Sophos Doku or google if it is so.

Hi Anton,

I assume you are home user wanting to experiment?

I you are a business user then I think you are putting your company security at risk for such an untried product.

Ian

Yes, I am a home user.

But could you get me any of my needed information?

Hi Anton,

I'm running my XG on a Proxmox Machine with virtio Drivers. It's perfectly fine and very stable.

It's also running with the famous unsupported I219 chipset: community.sophos.com/.../356409

Best Regards

Dom Nik

Hello Nik,

thank you for your Answer.

How did you install the Virtio-Drivers?

I have Installed my Sophos XG without Virtio-Drivers on a Proxmox-Host.

But if I change the NIC-Drivers to virtio I get no Web-Admin-Console.

Thank you!

Anton

Hi Anton,

I used the normal software installer (not the kvm prebuild one) and installed with virtio configured on the hypervisor.

You can check if the drivers are available with the following commands in the advanced shell:

SFVH_SO01_SFOS 17.0.5 MR-5# lsmod | grep virtio_net

virtio_net             16191  0 

SFVH_SO01_SFOS 17.0.5 MR-5# ethtool -i Port1 | grep virtio_net

driver: virtio_net

SFVH_SO01_SFOS 17.0.5 MR-5# ethtool -i Port2 | grep virtio_net

driver: virtio_net

Maybe the change afterwards is the problem... but I cannot help you with that. :-(

Best Regards

Dom Nik