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Graham Perrin

@grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe · 5 hours ago

Has anyone successfully used these FreeBSD Project-provided virtual machine disk images?

FreeBSD-14.3-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-zfs.qcow2

FreeBSD-15.0-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-zfs.qcow2

FreeBSD-16.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-zfs-20260113-2b60e628d3b1-283055.qcow2

Not booting for me in QEMU. Respectively:

― <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1qf56hq/comment/o028zow/>
― <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1qf56hq/comment/o034fef/>
― <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1qf56hq/comment/o035bqq/>

#FreeBSD #ARM64 #aarch64 #QEMU

Screenshot: FreeBSD not booting in QEMU.

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange replied · 4 hours ago

@grahamperrin

I've never had much luck with the re-provided disk images. I couldn't get older ones to work in Hyper-V and the newer ones did but with silly default options.

I ended up just building my own with Poudriere (which is very easy). Deploying your second FreeBSD instance is much easier than the first!

Graham Perrin

@grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe replied · 3 hours ago

@david_chisnall thanks. I was happy to use poudriere in the past but now, I have a Kubuntu host.

FreeBSD-14.3-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-disc1.iso

I can't boot from the iso, I guess I'm doing something stupidly wrong. I never used QEMU (Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager)) before today.

Screenshot: QEMU: Boot failed: Could not read from CDROM (code 0003)

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