stblassitude / packer-freebsd

Packer template for building FreeBSD 10 and 11 Vagrant boxes

packer-freebsd

packer template to build FreeBSD (with zfsroot) images, based on the work by uchida/packer-freebsd.

Vagrant images are available at

• app.vagrantup.com/stblassitude/freebsd-10 (about 310 MB)
• app.vagrantup.com/stblassitude/freebsd-11 (about 260 MB)

vagrant init stblassitude/freebsd-11; vagrant up

I'm running the build regularly (every couple of weeks to once a month). To use the most recent image, update your local cache before you vagrant up a new box.

vagrant box update stblassitude/freebsd-11

To check which version your Vagrant box is based on, you can look at /root/vagrantbox-version, which contains the URL and version number of the box vagrant up was run with.

Building Images

To build images, simply run:

$ git clone https://github.com/stblassitude/packer-freebsd
$ cd packer-freebsd
$ ./build.sh

While the template and the build script support VirtualBox, VMware, and QEMU/KVM, I'm currently only building VirtualBox images. If you'd like me to build the others as well, drop me a line.

License

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dedicated to public domain, no rights reserved.

packer-freebsd's Issues

Image files are larger than necessary

It appears the image files do not shrink properly in the cleanup.sh and zerodisk.sh scripts. Although the complete box needs about 400 to 500 MB, the image file is up to 750 MB large.

This might be due to VirtualBox not supporting TRIM properly; it seems this has to be told to VirtualBox when creating the initial image.

VMWare images

Hey, can you reenable the VMWare builds ? I couldn't find a freebsd12 with zfsroot on vagrant cloud. Thank You !

Enable UEFI boot for FreeBSD 11

UEFI boot is significantly faster than BIOS boot: in a quick test, it's 12 seconds for BIOS vs. 3 seconds for UEFI until the kernel starts.