Solved Unable to update to 13.0-BETA2 in Virtualbox

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jardows

I have Virtualbox 6.1 on a Windows 10 host with a FreeBSD 13.0-BETA1 VM. I am trying to update to 13.0-BETA2, but it is failing. When I run freebsd-update -r 13.0-BETA2 upgrade I get the following message:

Code: 
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
Fetching public key from update4.freebsd.org... failed.
Fetching public key from update2.freebsd.org... failed.
Fetching public key from update1.freebsd.org... failed.
No mirrors remaining, giving up.

This may be because upgrading from this platform (amd64)
or release (13.0-BETA1) is unsupported by freebsd-update. Only
platforms with Tier 1 support can be upgraded by freebsd-update.
See [URL]https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/index.html[/URL] for more info.

If unsupported, FreeBSD must be upgraded by source.
I can ping the update servers without issue from the VM. On the same machine, I have a 12.2-RELEASE VM that works with freebsd-update without issue. I have the VM settings the same except that I have 4 GB of RAM allocated for the 13.0-BETA1 VM and I have 8 GB of RAM allocated for the 12.2-RELEASE VM. My instinct tells me that this should work, and that there is either a bug in the Beta build or there is a setting I need to adjust, but I can't find anything that specifies what the issue could be.
 
Unfortunately you can't use freebsd-update(8) to update from an 13.0-ALPHA or BETA1 release. It should be possible from a BETA2 onward though. But to get to BETA2 from BETA1 you will need to build from source.
 
Thank you. I hadn't seen that documented. Did I miss documentation on that somewhere? If so, where should I look for that information in the future?

This is just a test VM so it will be faster and easier for me just to do a new installation than update from source.
 
Just confirmation. Using freebsd-update on BETA-2 seems to work. (Not that there's an update at this point, but I get a message of no updates needed as opposed to the upgrading not supported message that jardows mentioned.
 
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