virtual machine images

Hi, I am looking for a simple way to create customized FreeBSD images to be then run on KVM/Qemu. Basically I am looking for an equivalent of https://github.com/alpinelinux/alpine-make-vm-image and ideally I would rather not compile everything. In my current understanding there are two tools...

For a while now, I've been using poudriere image to build gold VM disk images. When I upgraded my poudriere build server to 14.0-RELEASE, something broke and I'm looking around and seeing if there are better ways to do it. I'm trying release.sh now, but at least for the initial build, it's...

Why not ZFS by default? Images are compressed before distribution. I assume that compression is very effective for: non-used space (free, never used) in file systems non-used swap space. Why is there so little free space in the file system for the base OS? Why is so little of the disk given...

Hello I noted that virtual machines images are available from https://www.FreeBSD.org/where.html, so wanted to use one of them in VMWare Workstation Player to no avail. None of them has the .vmdk file extension for VMWare. Could someone please explain to me how any of the images could be used...