Building custom FreeBSD VM images for Incus


Recently, I encountered a bug when using Incus on arm64 when using a FreeBSD VM image. Sadly, only the VGA console is working, and with that is the issue of not having input within the console. Reproducing this with Incus on amd64 with a amd64 VM image is not possible.

Luckily, I encountered release allowing creation of VM images. Thanks to Carlo Maiorano I also found out about the ‘VM_RC_LIST’ variable which allows specifying to be enabled services. I used this to enable sshd to get SSH access on the VM as getting correct IP addresses should work normally via Incus dhcp.

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