Re: Building VM-IMAGE(s) from Source

funnily, i had huge problems with release too, so i also wrote my own tool

release parts have been improved lately, especially man pages around it

but it's still very complex to get. even when i have tried to read configs, manpages, makefiles, handbook etc. it feels like something is missing. it's either in releng private repo or inside someone's brain. if in brain, those sometimes sadly expire and take all data with them, so...

this comes from someone who installed 4.6 at age of 19



On April 15, 2026 1:52:42 PM GMT+03:00, vermaden <vermaden@interia.pl> wrote:
>> Adding it to your release configuration file has no effect.
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>Colin did not wrote WHERE to put it - he just wrote this:
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>> You want WITH_VMIMAGES=YES.
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>... and I had that in release config.
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>But contents of 'release.conf.sample' are useless and misleading.
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>% grep -m 1 -B 2 WITH_VMIMAGES /usr/src/release/release.conf.sample
>## Set to a non-empty value to build virtual machine images as part of the
>## release build.
>#WITH_VMIMAGES=
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>> Second, `release.conf=custom.conf` has no effect either.
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>I later moved to this ... and it failed on build stage everytime in different places:
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># ./release.sh -c build.conf
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>... on system with 8 AMD Ryzen CPUs and 28 GB RAM and 200 GB of SSD.
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>But 'regular' command like that below worked without any problem:
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># make -j 8 buildworld buildkernel
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>But all this is pointless now - I moved on to verimg(8) and I am more then happy with it.
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