Provide instructions on how to download & deploy a working FreeBSD install that's suitable for CI, as there are several gotchas not mentioned in the current docs. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> --- guests/README.markdown | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+) diff --git a/guests/README.markdown b/guests/README.markdown index 7e63540..d450b4a 100644 --- a/guests/README.markdown +++ b/guests/README.markdown @@ -137,6 +137,37 @@ FreeBSD Installation of FreeBSD guests must be performed manually; alternatively, the official qcow2 images can be used to quickly bring up such guests. + $ MAJOR=12 + $ MINOR=1 + $ VER=$MAJOR.$MINOR-RELEASE + $ sudo wget -O /var/lib/libvirt/images/libvirt-freebsd-$MAJOR.qcow2.xz \ + https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/VM-IMAGES/$VER/amd64/Latest/FreeBSD-$VER-amd64.qcow2.xz + $ sudo unxz /var/lib/libvirt/images/libvirt-freebsd-$MAJOR.qcow2.xz + $ sudo virt-install \ + --import \ + --name libvirt-freebsd-$MAJOR \ + --vcpus 2 \ + --graphics vnc \ + --noautoconsole \ + --console pty \ + --sound none \ + --rng device=/dev/urandom,model=virtio \ + --memory 2048 \ + --os-variant freebsd$MAJOR.0 \ + --disk /var/lib/libvirt/images/libvirt-freebsd-$MAJOR.qcow2 + +The default qcow2 images are sized too small to be usable. To enlarge +them do + + $ sudo virsh blockresize libvirt-freebsd-$MAJOR \ + /var/lib/libvirt/images/libvirt-freebsd-$MAJOR.qcow2 20G + +Then inside the guest, as root, enlarge the 3rd partition & filesystem +to consume all new space: + + # gpart resize -i 3 vtbd0 + # service growfs onestart + Some manual tweaking will be needed, in particular: * `/etc/ssh/sshd_config` must contain the `PermitRootLogin yes` directive; -- 2.23.0 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
