Hello guys! I would like to dig into the world of FreeBSD, but unfortunately I'm bound to a Macbook M1 device.
So I will have to use virtual machines for using and working on FreeBSD.
(If this is the wrong category for my problem, I'm sorry, I thought that here it fitted best)
First of all I tried if running the ARM64 port of FreeBSD inside a VM works on M1.
Using this https://gist.github.com/ctsrc/a1f57933a2cde9abc0f07be12889f97f it was only a matter of minute to get it running.
My next step was to build BSD from source, which turned out to be a little challenge but still solvable.
(https://wiki.freebsd.org/BuildingOnNonFreeBSD).
Now I have buildworld and buildkernel in a directory but no clue how to actually create a VM image from that.
Is it even possible to create a image which I can just startup in qemu like the one I downloaded in the first gist?
I looked at multiple websites but the only promising one was this https://adventurist.me/posts/0283
Since I replaced make with ./tools/build/make.py in the build process I tried replacing it here to, where it just said, that bmake isn't capable of doing vm-release/install or whatever.
My next guess would have been to create a image file which is formated with zfs and call installworld, distribution and installkernel on it, but I wasn't able to properly do that.
So I decided to ask here how someone would create a vm image from self compiled sources on a non bsd host.
Thanks in advance
So I will have to use virtual machines for using and working on FreeBSD.
(If this is the wrong category for my problem, I'm sorry, I thought that here it fitted best)
First of all I tried if running the ARM64 port of FreeBSD inside a VM works on M1.
Using this https://gist.github.com/ctsrc/a1f57933a2cde9abc0f07be12889f97f it was only a matter of minute to get it running.
My next step was to build BSD from source, which turned out to be a little challenge but still solvable.
(https://wiki.freebsd.org/BuildingOnNonFreeBSD).
Now I have buildworld and buildkernel in a directory but no clue how to actually create a VM image from that.
Is it even possible to create a image which I can just startup in qemu like the one I downloaded in the first gist?
I looked at multiple websites but the only promising one was this https://adventurist.me/posts/0283
Since I replaced make with ./tools/build/make.py in the build process I tried replacing it here to, where it just said, that bmake isn't capable of doing vm-release/install or whatever.
My next guess would have been to create a image file which is formated with zfs and call installworld, distribution and installkernel on it, but I wasn't able to properly do that.
So I decided to ask here how someone would create a vm image from self compiled sources on a non bsd host.
Thanks in advance