OPNsense

[cwmoriarty]

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✍️ Description

Installs an OPNsense firewall VM on Proxmox VE.

The goal is to install OPNsense following best practices from the installation and community guides:

• Reference guide: How to Install OPNsense on Proxmox
• Community scripts tool guide: Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts Documentation

Provisions the virtual machine with:

• Interactive wizard guidance when only a single bridge (vmbr0) is detected, providing instructions on creating a secondary bridge (vmbr1) in Proxmox Network configuration or automatically creating and bringing it up
• Option to continue in single interface mode (proxy/VPN/IDS) if only one bridge exists
• VirtIO network interfaces on LAN and WAN with multi-queue matching assigned vCPUs (queues=$CORE_COUNT)
• Proxmox host firewall bypass (firewall=0)
• Disabled host memory ballooning (-balloon 0) for firewall stability

Model: Gemini 3.8 Flash (Low)

🔗 Related PR / Issue

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✅ Prerequisites (X in brackets)

• Self-review completed – Code follows project standards.
• Tested thoroughly – Changes work as expected.
• No breaking changes – Existing functionality remains intact.
• No security risks – No hardcoded secrets, unnecessary privilege escalations, or permission issues.

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🏗️ arm64 Support (X in brackets)

• arm64 supported - Tested and supported on arm64.
• arm64 not tested - Assumed to work on arm64, but testing has not been done.
• arm64 not supported - Confirmed upstream dependencies or binaries do not support arm64.

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🖥️ Tested on (X in brackets)

• Proxmox VE – Created on a Proxmox VE host and the app works.
• Incus – Created on an Incus host and the app works.

Application containers run on both; tick what you actually tested. VMs and host tools are Proxmox only.

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• 🐞 Bug fix – Resolves an issue without breaking functionality.
• ✨ New feature – Adds new, non-breaking functionality.
• 💥 Breaking change – Alters existing functionality in a way that may require updates.
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• 🔧 Refactoring / Code Cleanup – Improves readability or maintainability without changing functionality.
• 📝 Documentation update – Changes to README, AppName.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, or other docs.

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🔍 Code & Security Review (X in brackets)

• Follows CODE-AUDIT.md & CONTRIBUTING.md guidelines
• Uses correct script structure (AppName.sh, AppName-install.sh, AppName.json)
• No hardcoded credentials
• No Docker / Docker Compose – The application is installed bare-metal; Docker is not used.
• No git pull – Updates use fetch_and_deploy_gh_release, fetch_and_deploy_codeberg_release, fetch_and_deploy_gl_release, or fetch_and_deploy_from_url instead of git pull.

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🤖 AI Assistance (X in brackets)

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Select exactly one option.

• No AI used – Scripts were written without AI assistance.
• AI was used – I confirm the scripts were built using AGENTS.md and .github/agents/pve-script-creator.agent.md as guidance, and the output has been reviewed and corrected to match those guidelines.

Please describe to which degree, if any, an LLM was used in creating this pull request. Name the model(s) used and, if applicable, the reasoning/thinking effort level (e.g. "Claude Sonnet 4.5, high reasoning, used to draft the install script, then manually reviewed and tested" or "No LLM used"). This is informational, not a penalty — but scripts that are clearly AI-generated and not further revised by the author to match CODE-AUDIT.md / CONTRIBUTING.md may be closed without review.

Gemini 3.8 Flash, low reasoning, used to assist in adapting the OPNsense install script to DevScripts / Core standards, network bridge wizard guidance, and multi-queue/memory performance tuning. Manually reviewed and tested.

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📋 Additional Information (optional)

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📦 Application Requirements (for new scripts)

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• The application is at least 6 months old
• The application is actively maintained
• The application has 600+ GitHub stars
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🌐 Source

• https://opnsense.org/
• https://github.com/opnsense/core
• https://opnsenselab.com/posts/how-to-install-opnsense-on-proxmox/
• https://community-scripts.org/docs/tools/pve/readme

[github-actions]

✅ Requirements check passed. Thanks for fixing the description — the stale mark has been removed.

[github-actions]

Try this script

vm/opnsense-vm.sh, run in the Proxmox VE shell:

bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cwmoriarty/DevScripts/opnsense/vm/opnsense-vm.sh)"

Against a core branch as well

Add COMMUNITY_SCRIPTS_CORE_URL=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OWNER/core/BRANCH
to test an engine change at the same time. The two resolve independently.

[cwmoriarty]

Thanks for the review.

[asylumexp]

https://community-scripts.org/scripts/opnsense-vm