There seems to be a fair bit of information about running pfsense as a virtual machine on another hypervisor of some sort, but I am wondering if I can do the reverse and use a pfsense install as the host to run some linux vm's.
pfsense seems to be really good at handling multiple wan's etc, but I need to run same linux vm's for other tasks within the firewall.
It seems I might be able to run virtualbox or bhyve.
Any other options? Any pointers?
Peter.
I've heard rumblings that bhyve will be in an upcoming release.
But.
This really is not something you should consider doing. PFSense is a purpose-built appliance, tuned for routing and network security tasks. Sure, it may be technically possible to do what you propose, but it's a horrible idea.
Let your router do what it's good at, and use another host/VM for general computing tasks.