The great thing about running OPNSense in a VM on a regular x86 box is it's transferability.
I'm currently upgrading my box to add an NVMe M2 SSD, so I'm moving the VM to a spare box, doing the upgrade, then moving it back. The VM itself knows nothing, no reinstall and reconfigure, minimal downtime. Easy af.
Was using pfSense for a few years until a couple of years ago, upgraded to OPNSense. The plan is to keep OPNSense for much longer than a handful hardware cycles.
I'm currently upgrading my box to add an NVMe M2 SSD, so I'm moving the VM to a spare box, doing the upgrade, then moving it back. The VM itself knows nothing, no reinstall and reconfigure, minimal downtime. Easy af.
Was using pfSense for a few years until a couple of years ago, upgraded to OPNSense. The plan is to keep OPNSense for much longer than a handful hardware cycles.