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!

• FreeBSD 7.0 Base System for VMware Player 1.0
• FreeBSD 7.0 Base System for VMware Server 1.0
• FreeBSD 7.0 Base System /usr/ports Filesystem
• FreeBSD 7.0 Base System /usr/src Filesystem