How to make a FreeBSD vm in virtualbox.

[Garrett Cooper]

On Dec 31, 2014, at 8:15, Glen Barber <gjb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 08:48:01AM -0700, Warren Block wrote:
>> On Wed, 31 Dec 2014, Glen Barber wrote:
>>> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 10:04:38PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I think 'ifconfig_DEFAULT="DHCP"' in rc.conf(5) is what you want.
>>>> 
>>>> Do we want this by default in all images?  (I would vote yes).
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I'd actually argue 'no.'  As a sysadmin, I don't want any system doing
>>> anything I don't expect it to do, virtual machine or not.
>> 
>> It can have security implications.  And I've never tested what happens when
>> there is more than one interface.  First one wins, probably.
>> 
>> How about adding it to rc.conf, but commented?
>> 
> 
> I think this would be the least objectionable solution, with a note in
> motd mentioning how to enable networking.

Why not do what a lot of OSes do and give folks a dialog that says,

“I saw you haven’t setup networking — do you want to do so now?”

It’s already in bsdinstall… moving it into the boot process earlier on seems like an acceptable thing to do.

Thanks!
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