freebsd vmware image

[Allan Jude]

On 2015-03-07 14:17, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
> On 3/6/2015 1:00 PM, Allan Jude wrote:
>> On 2015-03-06 12:02, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
>>> Hey all, It's almost time for break and I'm looking for things I
>>> can contribute to. I've asked this here a few times, but I'm
>>> really interested in any help someone can offer. I'm trying to
>>> either find a way to install (via some kind of script), or find a
>>> good vmware image for BSD which I can use (preferably 11(?) so I 
>>> can jump straight to current and start testing/working on
>>> patches. If anyone has any solutions for this I'd really
>>> appreciate it. My other issue is that I'd need ssh enabled
>>> somewhere.
>>>
>>> The only other solution I can think of is something like
>>> Digitalocean, but that only is one core for the cheap version (I
>>> think you have to pay a lot for multiple cores), so compilation
>>> would be incredibly painful, not to mention 20 gb.
>>>
>>> Any ideas would be amazing. Thanks,
>>>
> 
>> You can download a pre-built VMDK of 11-current (March 2nd) here:
> 
>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/VM-IMAGES/11.0-CURRENT/amd64/Latest/
> 
>>  The files at this URL are updated on a regular basis
> 
> 
> I actually found that shortly after sending my origenal message on the
> releng page. I haven't grabbed it quite yet, but if there's not the
> root password in the readme, is there any idea what it is? Does this
> version have root logins disabled as well? If I set this up, I'll need
> to set a static IP on vmware, then just type in the commands to log in
> and boot up ssh so that I can log in remotely (as a screen reader
> doesn't work with vmware).
> Thanks,
> 
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By default there is no root password, and root login over ssh is disabled.

You'd login to the VM at the console, add a user (in the wheel group),
set your ip, and enable ssh (sysrc sshd_enable=YES) and you should be
good to go.


-- 
Allan Jude

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