FreeBSD on Google Compute Engine

[Steve Wills]

Hi,

I've been working on getting FreeBSD working well in Google Compute
Engine. So far I've written a script to build an image, it's available here:

https://github.com/swills/FreeBSD-gcloud/blob/master/build_google_image.sh

(If you've seen this before, I just did a bunch of updates that made it
a bit nicer.)

Google doesn't allow non-official public images, but you can share the
file used to create an image. There is a file that can be used to create
an image here:

http://storage.googleapis.com/swills-test-bucket/FreeBSD-10.1-RELEASE-amd64-20141224021135.tar.gz

That was built using the latest version of this script. You can use this
to create an image with a command like:

gcutil addimage freebsd-101-release-amd64-20141224021135
gs://swills-test-bucket/FreeBSD-10.1-RELEASE-amd64-20141224021135.tar.gz

(this is using the net/google-cloud-sdk port)

This script and the images created by it are still a work in progress.

I do plan to try to integrate this with gjb's release bits, much the way
Colin's doing with his EC2 AMI patches.

There is currently a known issue with rebooting that's triggered by
freebsd-update that I'm working on figuring out. I'd welcome any
feedback or comments.

Steve