FreeBSD Packer Template

This repository provides a Packer template for building FreeBSD image with ZFS root. The repository is based on brd/packer-freebsd but use mfsBSD to bootstrap the installation over SSH instead of using boot command with FreeBSD ISO.

Usage

The resulting image is currently published at pxfs/freebsd-11.1. You can init Vagrant environment with the image built from this repository with:

$ vagrant init pxfs/freebsd-11.1

Or configure manually,

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "pxfs/freebsd-11.1"
  # Other configuration.
end

Manually Building

• Vagrant
• Packer
• VirtualBox (for VirtualBox image)
• VMware Provider (for VMware image)

Building

1. Build the Vagrant box with packer build template.json.
2. Add the Vagrant box with vagrant box add --name freebsd-11.1 freebsd-11.1-vmware.box.

The default Vagrantfile comes with NFS mount on /vagrant and 1GB of RAM with 20GB of disk.