Differences in compatibility between old hardware and new hardware for Palo Alto VM-Series Software Firewall in Ubuntu KVM Host

Fri Mar 28 01:55:47 UTC 2025

Subject: Differences in compatibility between old hardware and new hardware for Palo Alto VM-Series Software Firewall in Ubuntu KVM Host

Good day from Singapore,

Let me try to make things clearer.

Palo Alto VM-Series Software Firewall is a VIRTUAL MACHINE (VM) inside Ubuntu KVM Host. I want to use Linux-KVM.

I chose to install Ubuntu Desktop 22.04.5 LTS because I wanted to use Virtual Machine Manager, which is a GUI.

With Ubuntu Server, there is NO GUI.

My old hardware consists of AMD Athlon 3000G with Radeon Vega Graphics, ASUS PRIME A320M-K Motherboard, 12 GB of DDR4-2666 RAM and 1 TB SATA harddisk.

With the old hardware, Palo Alto VM-Series Software Firewall either keeps shutting down or keeps rebooting, leading to a critical error.

That is why I have just bought a refurbished/used/2nd hand firewall appliance with Intel Celeron J4125 processor, 8 GB DDR4-2400 RAM and 128 GB SSD for SGD$120 at Boon Keng MRT station (near 7-11) in Singapore on 27 Mar 2025 Thursday at about 6.45 pm in the evening.

With the "new" hardware that I have purchased, Palo Alto VM-Series Software Firewall no longer keeps shutting down and no longer keeps rebooting (no more critical errors).

But I get the following errors when I try to login to the Palo Alto VM-Series software firewall with the default username of admin.

vm login: admin
2025-03-27 09:18:02.709 -0700 Error:  sysd_construct_sync_importer(sysd_sync.c:360): sysd_sync_register() failed: (111) Unknown error code
2025-03-27 09:18:03.711 -0700 Error:  sysd_construct_sync_importer(sysd_sync.c:360): sysd_sync_register() failed: (111) Unknown error code
2025-03-27 09:18:04.713 -0700 Error:  sysd_construct_sync_importer(sysd_sync.c:360): sysd_sync_register() failed: (111) Unknown error code
2025-03-27 09:18:05.716 -0700 Error:  sysd_construct_sync_importer(sysd_sync.c:360): sysd_sync_register() failed: (111) Unknown error code
2025-03-27 09:18:06.718 -0700 Error:  sysd_construct_sync_importer(sysd_sync.c:360): sysd_sync_register() failed: (111) Unknown error code
Error: unable to connect to Sysd
Password: 
Login incorrect

Anybody knows why? Please advise. I am looking forward to your replies.

Thank you very much.

Regards,

Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
Singapore

-------- Original Message --------
On 3/28/25 03:25, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 at 16:42, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming via
>  ubuntu-users <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>  
>  > I have just bought a refurbished/used/2nd hand firewall appliance with Intel Celeron J4125 processor, 8 GB RAM and 128 GB SSD for SGD$120 at Boon Keng MRT station (near 7-11) in Singapore on 27 Mar 2025 Thursday at about 6.45 pm in the evening.
>  
>  The location etc. is nor relevant.
>  
>  > After the purchase, I have installed Ubuntu Desktop 22.04.5 LTS in this firewall appliance.
>  
>  OK.
>  
>  1. Why _desktop_? If it is a firewall you do not want or need a desktop.
>  
>  2. Actually, if it is a firewall you are probably better off with a
>  firewall distro.
>  
>  I used to use Smoothwall: https://www.smoothwall.org/
>  
>  It was forked to create IPCop. That is long dead but it has been
>  replaced with IPFire:
>  
>  https://www.ipfire.org/
>  
>  Another well-regarded alternative is OPNsense:
>  
>  https://opnsense.org/
>  
>  Other alternatives:
>  
>  https://teklager.se/en/best-free-linux-router-firewall-software/
>  
>  Ubuntu is not the tool for this job. Ubuntu *Desktop* _definitely_ is not.
>  
>  2. Directly on the computer? Then why ask this:
>  
>  > I have tried adjusting many Linux-KVM hypervisor parameters and virtual machine parameters. In addition, I have also tried reinstalling the disk image and performing factory reset in maintenance mode in the Palo Alto VM-Series software firewall.
>  >
>  > No matter what I do, I still cannot login to the Palo Alto VM-Series Software Firewall on Ubuntu KVM Host.
>  
>  No, you can't. You can only connect to VMs. This is not a VM. You said
>  it was on a computer you bought.
>  
>  
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