FreeBSD-based and FreeBSD-provided disk images for virtual machines (was: Goodbye)

[Graham Perrin]

On 09/07/2021 21:02, David Raver wrote:
> … VirtualBox, created a new machine using the downloaded (
> https://www.freebsd.org/where/) file. …

New bug:

257115 – Some columns for virtual machine images lack a link to the 
README at /where/
<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=257115>

The README could be much better, but that's another story.

> Instead of the expected GUI …

At <https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/faq/> some of the answers to 
frequently asked questions are outdated. Someone might like to improve 
this book. If possible, make it shorter. Much shorter.

In my opinion the book of questions, and pages such as 
<https://www.freebsd.org/about/>, should make it easier for a newcomer 
to tell – at a glance – that FreeBSD does not include a GUI.

David, if you want a disk image with a desktop environment, you might be 
interested in topics such as this:

FreeBSD-13.0-RELEASE-amd64-KDE-Plasma (2021-06-23)
<https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/81030/>

– tl;dr work in progress, it's not yet understood why the image is not 
_immediately_ compatible with the most recent guest additions for 
VirtualBox.