How to make a FreeBSD vm in virtualbox.

[Glen Barber]

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.

Glen

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