How to make a FreeBSD vm in virtualbox.

[Garrett Cooper]

On Dec 31, 2014, at 10:12, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> I'm confused by this discussion.
> 
> The basic image generation doesn't need to use any third-party tools.
> 
> We can always have a transformation step /after/ those images are
> generated that uses third party tools to generate other images. Much
> like Alfred's shell script.
> 
> I know it sucks, but unless someone wants to write BSD versions of all
> of those configuration pieces, we're going to be stuck using external
> tools to do things. And those things will get eyeballs.

It’s really unfortunate that the VMware option requires linux compat (at least) in order to work:

https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?productId=352&downloadGroup=OVFTOOL350

Is there anyone who’s been working with VMware directly to add FreeBSD support? If so, I think that opensourcing this tool (or at least having a binary) would potentially be the best win of all in the short-term.

Thanks!
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