SOLVED: pfSense gives: "**Cannot continue with the installation, no valid storage devices detected**"

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If try to setup pfsense in a VM, if you follow the right process, you’ll likely fail.

See this medium article.

It’s not just us having this problem :wink:

Solution is to ditch the Netgate installer and get the direct ISO image which doesn’t give you the error: pfSense-CE-2.7.2-RELEASE-amd64.iso.gz

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Try OPNsense - works great :grinning:

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I was very confused by this post. When did Netgate move the ISO behind their store?

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I saw this the other day, makes me think that the days of getting pfSense for free is limited unless you want to get the source and make the iso yourself.

I had a look at the github repository for pfsense and they still have commits going in, but I assume the plus edition is closed source, I could be wrong.

Either way I need to invest in moving over to OPNSense I think…

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here’s the announcement of the new way to get the non-working software: No longer available iso image for pfsense! - Networking & Firewalls - Lawrence Systems Forums

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