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[2001:470:1f1c:a0::2]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id o6sm4344445wry.91.2021.07.11.11.48.25 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 11 Jul 2021 11:48:25 -0700 (PDT) Subject: FreeBSD-based and FreeBSD-provided disk images for virtual machines (was: Goodbye) To: David Raver References: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Graham Perrin Message-ID: <4ac3a791-a16f-cc83-4be6-e11a4be20ad8@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2021 19:48:24 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-GB X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4GNGBN1qFHz4lxj X-Spamd-Bar: --- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=gmail.com header.s=20161025 header.b=FVG6Stlo; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gmail.com; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of grahamperrin@gmail.com designates 2a00:1450:4864:20::42d as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=grahamperrin@gmail.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-3.20 / 15.00]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; FREEMAIL_FROM(0.00)[gmail.com]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip6:2a00:1450:4000::/36]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[gmail.com:+]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[gmail.com,none]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.20)[-0.204]; FREEMAIL_TO(0.00)[gmail.com]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; FREEMAIL_ENVFROM(0.00)[gmail.com]; ASN(0.00)[asn:15169, ipnet:2a00:1450::/32, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; RBL_DBL_DONT_QUERY_IPS(0.00)[2a00:1450:4864:20::42d:from]; DWL_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[gmail.com:dkim]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-0.999]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[gmail.com:s=20161025]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; TAGGED_RCPT(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; SPAMHAUS_ZRD(0.00)[2a00:1450:4864:20::42d:from:127.0.2.255]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[2a00:1450:4864:20::42d:from]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-questions] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2021 18:48:29 -0000 On 09/07/2021 21:02, David Raver wrote: > … VirtualBox, created a new machine using the downloaded ( > https://www.freebsd.org/where/) file. … New bug: 257115 – Some columns for virtual machine images lack a link to the README at /where/ The README could be much better, but that's another story. > Instead of the expected GUI … At some of the answers to frequently asked questions are outdated. Someone might like to improve this book. If possible, make it shorter. Much shorter. In my opinion the book of questions, and pages such as , should make it easier for a newcomer to tell – at a glance – that FreeBSD does not include a GUI. David, if you want a disk image with a desktop environment, you might be interested in topics such as this: FreeBSD-13.0-RELEASE-amd64-KDE-Plasma (2021-06-23) – tl;dr work in progress, it's not yet understood why the image is not _immediately_ compatible with the most recent guest additions for VirtualBox.