New vm-image size is much smaller than previos

[Matthew Seaman]

On 03/05/2019 17:10, David Boyd wrote:
> The vm-image for 13.0-CURRENT
> 	
> 	 FreeBSD-13.0-CURRENT-amd64-20190503-r347033.vmdk
> 
> is only 4.0 GB in size.  Previous images were about 31.0 GB.
> 
> This smaller image doesn't leave much room to add packages and other
> customizations.
> 

Yes, the VM images are smaller, and deliberately so.  The idea is that 
the image is basically shrunk to the minimum size -- just big enough to 
hold a standard install.  Then when you deploy one of these images, you 
allocate a virtual drive of whatever size you need, and growfs(8) your 
filesystems (if using UFS) or allow your vdevs to expand to fill the 
space available (if using ZFS).  This allows you to build a system of 
pretty much any feasible size and parallels the behaviour of eg. the 
AMIs available for AWS.

	Cheers,

	Matthew