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(a)redhat.com&gt; --- guests/README.markdown | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+) diff --git a/guests/README.markdown b/guests/README.markdown index 7e63540..d76beb1 100644 --- a/guests/README.markdown +++ b/guests/README.markdown @@ -137,6 +137,26 @@ FreeBSD Installation of FreeBSD guests must be performed manually; alternatively, the official qcow2 images can be used to quickly bring up such guests. + $ MAJOR=11 + $ MINOR=3 + $ VER=$MAJOR.$MINOR-RELEASE + $ cd /var/lib/libvirt/images + $ wget -O libvirt-freebsd-$MAJOR.qcow2.xz \ + https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/VM-IMAGES/$VER/amd64/Latest/Fre... + $ unxz libvirt-freebsd-$MAJOR.qcow2.xz + $ virt-install \ + --import \ + --name libvirt-freebsd-$MAJOR \ + --vcpus 2 \ + --graphics vnc \ + --noautoconsole \ + --console pty \ + --sound none \ + --rng device=/dev/urandom,model=virtio \ + --memory 2000 \ + --os-variant freebsd$MAJOR.$MINOR \ + --file /var/lib/libvirt/images/libvirt-freebsd-$MAJOR.qcow2 + Some manual tweaking will be needed, in particular: * `/etc/ssh/sshd_config` must contain the `PermitRootLogin yes` directive; @@ -145,6 +165,17 @@ Some manual tweaking will be needed, in particular: * the root password must be manually set to "root" (without quotes). +The default qcow2 images are only 4GB in size which will be too small +to be useful. To enlarge them do + + $ virsh blockresize libvirt-freebsd-$MAJOR \ + /var/lib/libvirt/images/libvirt-freebsd-$MAJOR.qcow2 20G + +Then inside the guest, as root, enlarge the partition & filesystem + + # gpart resize -i 3 -a 4k -s 39845761 vtbd0 + # service growfs onestart + Once these steps have been performed, FreeBSD guests can be managed just like all other guests. -- 2.23.0