If you are running this in KVM, enabling CPU passthrough (host-passthrough) can significantly increase the performance of the firewall's threat detection engine. In your XML VM config or Virt-Manager settings, change the CPU model to "Host Passthrough".
Ensure the VM "Bus/Device" is set to VirtIO or SATA . If you use IDE, performance will be terrible, and some bootloaders struggle. fgt-vm64-kvm-v7.2.1.f-build1254-fortinet.out.kvm.qcow2
Configure Interfaces: Assign at least two network interfaces (WAN and LAN). If you are running this in KVM, enabling
to your KVM host: