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You will be presented with a license agreement page, accept that by using the Tab key. It will be prompted for password, enter the password as admin and hit enter. Power on the virtual machine.ĭouble click on the VM to start the virtual machine. In case if you are using wired network, you will have to choose ethernet from the list. In my case I am using the wireless adapter, hence I have chosen that. Configure the second Adapter.Īnd choose a bridged adapter, and select the network adapter on your host machine that you are using for the internet access.

This will be the virtual private LAN that we are creating only for the Sophos LAN side. Name: You may name the private network that you choose. Configure the first Adapter.Ĭheck the box Enable network adapter if it’s not already checked. The first adapter represents the LAN and the second is for the WAN.

So right click on the VM and click on settings-> Network

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Update the network adapter.Īs discussed, the VirtualBox should provide two interfaces to the VM, one provides the internet connectivity and other is the LAN. Note: If you give only single CPU, the firewall installation may fail and you will end up getting a reboot loopĬlick on Finish for now.

First click on the name and change it according to your setup.

It will show you the VirtualBox import properties of the Sophos VM that you are going to install, there are some changes that we need to make though.

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To install the Sophos VM it is very simple, just double click on the sf_virtual.ovf file

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Open the zip file you downloaded, and extract the files to the new directory that you created as you can see below. Go to the VirtualBox directory and create a folder, maybe sophos-fw. Extract the file to the VirtualBox directory. Here you will see the default location of the VirtualBox VMs under the Default machine folder. Open the VirtualBox and click on Tools->Preferences->General Tab. Move the virtual images to the VirtualBox directory.īefore we move the virtual images to the VirtualBox directory, we need to identify the location of the VirtualBox VMs. Once you have both the Sophos virtual image and the VirtualBox hypervisor installed you are ready to go. So depending on your operating system you may download the software and install it on your machine. You can download the VirtualBox hypervisor by clicking here. Download and install the VirtualBox hypervisor software. The Sophos virtual image will be downloaded automatically now. You will be asked to fill in some details, fill them in and click on Submit. Under downloads choose the Virtual Installers: Firewall OS for VMware. Go to Sophos website by clicking here and clicking download. Download the Sophos firewall image for VirtualBox.

Name the firewall and choose the Tim zone and continue.ġ.

Complete the Sophos Initial setup wizard.

Access the Firewall GUI for initial setup.

Extract the file to the VirtualBox directory.

Move the virtual images to the VirtualBox directory. Steps to install Sophos virtual machine in VirtualBox. If you want to utilize Ubuntu as the client machine, you are welcome to do so because I already have it installed in the VirtualBox. We will test the network connectivity from the LAN virtual machine to the outside world after the deployment. In essence, this configuration creates a virtual LAN that is completely isolated from your physical LAN. This configuration is ideal if you want to set up a home lab for development purposes, keeping the physical LAN network and your development environment separate behind the firewall. The configuration we’ll employ is shown below we’ll install Sophos Firewall in VirtualBox, then link the LAN interface to the virtual machines and the WAN side to the Internet to provide network connectivity.

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The VirtualBox is a free open source hypervisor that can be installed in any operating system for free because of which, anyone can virtualize Sophos firewall.

#SOPHOS XG FIREWALL HOME EDITION SETUP HOW TO#

We can virtualize the Sophos firewall in a hypervisor as one solution, and in this blog post, we’ll show you how to do it with VirtualBox. Many Enterprise customers utilize Sophos Firewall at the network’s edge, and it can also be used in a home lab.īut not many of us have the resources to purchase expensive equipment and install it in our home networks, so what do we do? There are several firewall vendors, and Sophos is one of them, when it comes to network security.