VM-IMAGES broken since January

[Glen Barber]

Hi,

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 04:41:17PM -0500, draymond at FoxValley.net wrote:
> I have been using virtual machine images of FreeBSD 11.0 to cross compile
> for my Raspberry Pi.  I recently noticed that the last working disk image is
> from January:
> 
> http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/VM-IMAGES/11.0-CURRENT/amd64/20150111/FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-amd64-20150111-r276981.vmdk.xz
> 
> There have been 16 images uploaded since then and none of them will open in
> VMware Player.  They all result in the following error message:
> 
> The file specified is not a virtual disk.
> 
> I have seen reports from others having the same problem.  For instance:
> 
> http://superuser.com/questions/879718/how-can-i-import-the-freebsd-vm-current-snapshots-into-vmware-workstation-or-vmw
> 

This is fixed in -CURRENT as of this morning, and will be merged to
stable/10 before the next builds.

Sorry about that.  It was an inadvertent oversight as part of a rewrite
of release/tools/vmimage.subr.

Glen

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