How to make a FreeBSD vm in virtualbox.

[Garrett Cooper]

On Dec 31, 2014, at 10:57, Alfred Perlstein <alfred at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 12/31/14 10:40 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> On Dec 31, 2014, at 10:12, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm confused by this discussion.
>>> 
>>> The basic image generation doesn't need to use any third-party tools.
>>> 
>>> We can always have a transformation step /after/ those images are
>>> generated that uses third party tools to generate other images. Much
>>> like Alfred's shell script.
>>> 
>>> I know it sucks, but unless someone wants to write BSD versions of all
>>> of those configuration pieces, we're going to be stuck using external
>>> tools to do things. And those things will get eyeballs.
>> 
>> It’s really unfortunate that the VMware option requires linux compat (at least) in order to work:
>> 
>> https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?productId=352&downloadGroup=OVFTOOL350
>> 
>> Is there anyone who’s been working with VMware directly to add FreeBSD support? If so, I think that opensourcing this tool (or at least having a binary) would potentially be the best win of all in the short-term.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
> 
> https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?productId=353&downloadGroup=OVFTOOL350_OSS

That works too! Now all we need to do is make that into a port...
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