How to make a FreeBSD vm in virtualbox.

[Alfred Perlstein]

On Jan 1, 2015, at 1:14 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

>> I know that.
>> 
>> You know that.
>> 
>> Do non-freebsd people know that?
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> so add this in VM image to be ready.
> 
> anyway - is this a right direction for unix system to do everything for a user (or more precisely - sysadmin) without even knowing?

Maybe it is!  But I'm not sure dhcp is exactly the slippery slope that this statement would suggest it is. ;)

> 
> Is FreeBSD heading to compete with GUI linux distros?
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> 

I'm not sure how auto configuring interfaces, particularly in the case of VMs distributed) leads to a GUI discussion, but in fact we already do.  Have you tried PCBSD?

The end goal of this is that anyone can grab a freebsd install and have it be useful and do work with it without having to know a whole lot about it.  


-Alfred