Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 11:03:10 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> Cc: Ryan Kois <ryan.kois@gmail.com>, hackers@freebsd.org, re@freebsd.org, Claudia Yadathi <yadathi@gmail.com> Subject: Re: How to make a FreeBSD vm in virtualbox. Message-ID: <BE7B7DA8-518A-4FEA-A976-08922EBF563D@kientzle.com> In-Reply-To: <13C55A7B-4010-40FA-901B-DF8ED6BADD87@freebsd.org> References: <13C55A7B-4010-40FA-901B-DF8ED6BADD87@freebsd.org>
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> On Dec 30, 2014, at 7:42 PM, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Hello Release engineering team & hackers, > > Ryan (cc'd) did some work on the recent FreeBSD vms that were released. > > Ryan is working at Norse with us and using FreeBSD now. His background is backend development in io.js, node.js and php on Linux. > > He's now trying to get io.js working on FreeBSD. > > In doing so he wanted to setup a VM, so he downloaded the vmdk and created a blog post on what was needed to be done in order to get it working under virtualbox. That blog is here: > > http://blog.kidicarus.cool/blog/2014/12/24/freebsd-guest-on-mac-osx-host-via-virtualbox/ > > After he linked it to me, I decided that it would make sense if this was scripted and would really make sense as part of the release process. Crochet has had support (for about a year now) for building VMWare images directly (the full image, not just the vmdk). Such images can be booted directly in Fusion with no extra effort. For a while, I used that to upgrade my FreeBSD dev environment (build a new image with appropriate password and an fstab that NFS mounts all the home and source directories) rather than doing in-place source upgrades. If anyone wants to rip that code out into a separate tool that accepts a pre-built vmdk, the code is pretty self-contained: https://github.com/kientzle/crochet-freebsd/tree/master/board/VMWareGuest I also looked at generating Parallels images but the format is undocumented and considerably more complex. Never looked at .ova. Tim
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