How to make a FreeBSD vm in virtualbox.

[Alfred Perlstein]

On 12/31/14 10:40 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> 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!
>

https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?productId=353&downloadGroup=OVFTOOL350_OSS

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-Alfred