Create a FreeBSD Vagrant Box File

Despite there are several Vagrant boxes available which run FreeBSD out of the box, it's good to know how to create such a box by yourself. An advantage might be, that the box comes with only those packages installed you really need. That's why I decided to create a minimal FreeBSD box with only as much packages installed to run Ansible. With Ansible installed it's quite easy to perfectly adapt the box afterwards.

Prerequisites

VirtualBox installed, download page
Vagrant installed, download page

Create a VB virtual machine

Create an virtual machine with NAT enabled for the first network adapter and add set the adapter type to virtio-net. Make sure the size of the configured hard disk is at least 8GB (choose a disk size that will suite your needs ~120GB).
Add the downloaded mfsBSD ISO (any edition) as bootable CD device.
Boot.
Login with root and mfsroot.
Install FreeBSD.
```
 zfsinstall -d /dev/ada0
```
Stop the VM.
Remove attached ISO

Boot the VM, login with root and execute the following commands.

dhclient vtnet0
fetch -o - --no-verify-peer \
 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JoergFiedler/freebsd-vagrant-base-box/master/update.sh \
 | sh | tee out.log

Note: You may use this short link instead: `http://bit.ly/1lEHtrx`.

Halt the VM.

Create the Box File

To create the box file just run the following command line.
```
 vagrant package --base my-virtual-machine
```
The file package.box can be referenced by vm.box_url configuration parameter within your Vagrantfile.

Box File

FreeBSD 11.2

Download the final box file here: http://vastland.moumantai.de/FreeBSD/vagrant-box/FreeBSD-11.2-vagrant-dcf9bde9.box

SHA256 Checksum: dcf9bde97f9aaf72a8aa13b8056523c7e96a1891e51c97ead79816a29498e79b

FreeBSD 11.1

Download the final box file here: http://vastland.moumantai.de/FreeBSD/vagrant-box/FreeBSD-11.1-vagrant-b67e92c.box

SHA256 Checksum: b67e92cff0de9ace385d16640be8ac7cc00d349e6ecd4aad3921b3ea0725e00f

FreeBSD 11.0

Download the final box file here: http://vastland.moumantai.de/FreeBSD/vagrant-box/FreeBSD-11.0-vagrant-fe6134d.box

SHA256 Checksum: fe6134d5cd5c1d5bce705ded1333445236b135c20929c8dde9592e73d0ea001d

FreeBSD 10.3

Download the final box file here: http://vastland.moumantai.de/FreeBSD/vagrant-box/FreeBSD-10.3-vagrant-697852c.box

SHA256 Checksum: 697852c81fb7c2121eaa73fd45cdef841105d8c100e2c5d7ccbe3339ee1e1cb2

FreeBSD 10.2

Download the final box file here: http://vastland.moumantai.de/FreeBSD/vagrant-box/FreeBSD-10.2-vagrant-abe25b9.box

SHA256 Checksum: abe25b9b2b934053a624632323f7c62c1fe6dce0fd7453fb484cc2aba17f4056

FreeBSD 10.1

Download the final box file here: http://vastland.moumantai.de/FreeBSD/vagrant-box/FreeBSD-10.1-vagrant-base.box

SHA256 Checksum: 67f6d3e60d26ae811b685f13ddd3683a0cc7280ac8a104203006573ea831e699

FreeBSD 10.0

Download the final box file here: http://vastland.moumantai.de/FreeBSD/vagrant-box/FreeBSD-10-vagrant-base.box

SHA256 Checksum: 3418526d3a67313d3763ac75eb5b46c2d5d90837342e9d4fdef46dc387128735

Installed Packages

pkg info

bash                           The GNU Project's Bourne Again SHell
ca_root_nss                    Root certificate bundle from the Mozilla Project
gettext-runtime                GNU gettext runtime libraries and programs
indexinfo                      Utility to regenerate the GNU info page index
iocage                         Full featured, no dependency Jail container manager
libffi                         Foreign Function Interface
pkg                            Package manager
python                         The "meta-port" for the default version of Python interpreter
python2                        The "meta-port" for version 2 of the Python interpreter
python27                       Interpreted object-oriented programming language
sudo                           Allow others to run commands as root

JoergFiedler/freebsd-vagrant-base-box