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From: deco33000 Jog <deco33000@yandex.com>
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OK,

Now it is fully working. I switched to virtualbox and chose a nat paravirt network.
I really hate virtualization but will bear with it anyway.

Thanks for you help,

Bye

22.09.2015, 08:36, "Julian Elischer" <julian@freebsd.org>:
> On 9/22/15 4:49 AM, deco33000 Jog wrote:
>> šHi,
>>
>> šI just downloaded the freebsd 10.2 virtual image for amd64. It runs on Linux mint.
>> šI use qemu v.1.7.0 (because of linux mint, but plan to manually install the 2.4.0 version, and ditch Mint altogether).
>>
>> šI use the following command:
>> šqemu-system-x86_64 myfreebsdimage.qcow2
>>
>> šWhen doing the pkg command, at some point it says it cannot fetch because of read only file system.
>>
>> šOk, but how did you fix this? (I am not very used to virtualization).
>
> virtualization should not give you a read-only filesystem.
> there are a few possibilities..
> off the top of my head...
> 1/ you are in single user mode, in which case you need to let it
> finish booting. or you can do 'mount -u /'
> to make it read-write
> 2/ something failed in mounting /tmp and it's read-only?
>
> you need to tell us more about what has happened up to this point.