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Date:      Tue, 12 May 2015 00:11:07 +0000
From:      Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        draymond@FoxValley.net
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VM-IMAGES broken since January
Message-ID:  <20150512001107.GA20653@hub.FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20150511164117.uk0nlx6c32g4o84k@webmail.FoxValley.net>
References:  <20150511164117.uk0nlx6c32g4o84k@webmail.FoxValley.net>

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Hi,

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 04:41:17PM -0500, draymond@FoxValley.net wrote:
> I have been using virtual machine images of FreeBSD 11.0 to cross compile
> for my Raspberry Pi.  I recently noticed that the last working disk image=
 is
> from January:
>=20
> http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/VM-IMAGES/11.0-CURRENT/amd64=
/20150111/FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-amd64-20150111-r276981.vmdk.xz
>=20
> There have been 16 images uploaded since then and none of them will open =
in
> VMware Player.  They all result in the following error message:
>=20
> The file specified is not a virtual disk.
>=20
> I have seen reports from others having the same problem.  For instance:
>=20
> http://superuser.com/questions/879718/how-can-i-import-the-freebsd-vm-cur=
rent-snapshots-into-vmware-workstation-or-vmw
>=20

This is fixed in -CURRENT as of this morning, and will be merged to
stable/10 before the next builds.

Sorry about that.  It was an inadvertent oversight as part of a rewrite
of release/tools/vmimage.subr.

Glen


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