Hi everyone,
A while back, I made some blank VMware VMDK images available in various sizes. I am now making some pre-formatted VMDK images available that are even easier to use. Of course, these images are specific to the operating system you’re using, and as long as that’s FreeBSD, you’ll be fine. 
I can make pretty much any size or operating-system-specific filesystem type, so what else would you like to see?
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Hi everyone,
I’m diving into some new work with virtual appliances, so I thought I would make a clean FreeBSD 7.0 VM available to you. This one has the following configuration:
- SCHED_ULE scheduler has been selected instead of SCHED_4BSD
- Other minor option tweaks in the new kernel config file vs. the GENERIC kernel config. The updated kernel config can be found here
- Root password is “password”
- LSI Logic SCSI virtual disks are used instead of IDE so the VM can be deployed to VMware ESX Server
- /usr/src and /usr/ports filesystems are packaged as separate downloads
- Two separate base systems are available – one for VMware Server 1.0 and one for VMware Player 1.0. Why these products use a slightly different VMX file format is beyond me!
I plan to use this vanilla VM as the base for future VM downloads, and by breaking /usr/src and /usr/ports into separate downloads, that will keep the overall size down.
All downloads are available from BitTorrent, and please consider seeding the files if you find them useful!
Hi all,
I just got a message on the FreeBSD-hackers mailing list about a new mailing list where “works in progress” will be detailed: FreeBSD-wip-status. By subscribing to this mailing list, you will keep up with the cutting edge of FreeBSD development and learn about the many ways that FreeBSD is used out in the world.
Here’s an excerpt from the announcement:
Hello everybody,
SHORT SUMMARY:
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wip-status
Subscribe today!! Tell all your friends, co-workers and everybody you
know who’s interested in FreeBSD. Post this on your blog! 
LONG VERSION:
if you’ve been around lately you might already know about our effort to
provide periodical status reports about ongoing FreeBSD related WIPs.
The past reports can be found at: http://www.freebsd.org/news/status
This system has some shortcomings however. The biggest one is that due to
the collection overhead and the high rate of exciting development under
the FreeBSD umbrella most of the reports are somewhat outdated by the
time they get to “print”. Other projects never are announced in the
status reports because they happen in-between and fall through the
cracks.
In order to improve this situation we have created a new mailing list that
should receive status reports from now on.
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The full announcement can be found here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2008-June/024836.html
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