How to make a FreeBSD vm in virtualbox.

[Garrett Cooper]

On Dec 31, 2014, at 11:06, Alfred Perlstein <alfred at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 12/31/14 11:03 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> On Dec 31, 2014, at 10:57, Alfred Perlstein <alfred at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> 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
>> 
>> That works too! Now all we need to do is make that into a port...
>> 
> 
> Actually we need to figure out how that file is actually the google-url library instead.... wat...
> 
> ~/tmp % tar xzvf ../ovftools-3.0.1-and-3.5.0-OSS.tar.gz
> x google-url-r147/
> x google-url-r147/LICENSE.txt
> x google-url-r147/third_party/
> x google-url-r147/third_party/icu/
> x google-url-r147/third_party/icu/build/
> x google-url-r147/third_party/icu/build/using_icu.vsprops
> x google-url-r147/README.txt
> x google-url-r147/src/
> x google-url-r147/src/url_parse_file.cc
> ...
> 
> I'll ping some folks over there and see what's up.

Probably VMware disclosing their modifications to source code as well as what they statically compile into the tool *shrugs*.

If I need to I’ll try some internal channels; it’s just a few hops to get to the VMware folks for folks on Benno’s team because we don’t work in the same geographical area as the folks do in SC.

Thanks!
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