Building the VM

Table of Contents Python Environment bsd-cloudinit-installer VIRTIO Enable DHCP / has to be the last partition on disk Output to OpenStack console log Bootloader menu delay Shrinking disks

Python Environment

 pkg_add -r py27-distribute
 rehash
 easy_install eventlet
 easy_install iso8601

bsd-cloudinit-installer

 fetch https://raw.github.com/pellaeon/bsd-cloudinit-installer/master/installer.sh
 chmod +x installer.sh
 ./installer.sh

VIRTIO

In virt-manager change IOs to VIRTIO, FreeBSD 9.2+ GENERIC kernel have drivers for them.

• Disk: vtbd, change ada to vtbd in /etc/fstab
• NIC: vtnet

Enable DHCP

 echo 'ifconfig_vtnet0="DHCP"' >> /etc/rc.conf

/ has to be the last partition on disk

So that bsd-cloudinit could grow it on first boot.

We don't need SWAP.

Output to OpenStack console log

 echo 'console="comsonsole,vidconsole"' >> /boot/loader.conf

Bootloader menu delay

 echo 'autoboot_delay="4"' >> /boot/loader.conf

Shrinking disks

Shrink disk to make the image smaller. But currently it is not possible with UFS.