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[50.137.62.165]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id sc1sm1741560pac.36.2015.06.11.17.13.19 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 11 Jun 2015 17:13:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <557A241D.5090307@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 17:13:17 -0700 From: Lacey Powers User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Softlayer VPS: Loading FreeBSD References: <6277AB8E-EDF5-436A-B1A9-5C041041E165@hub.org> <64385A15-591B-4933-BD83-45EAA5A372C5@hub.org> <557A0B64.9050808@sysconfig.org.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 00:13:22 -0000 On 06/11/2015 16:00, Marc Fournier wrote: > Marc G Fournier > Owner, Hub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. > >> On Jun 11, 2015, at 15:27, Carsten Heesch wrote: >> >> >>> That gave us IPMI access for the Bare Metal server we put in place, >>> but no KVM access for VPS … for VPS, I need to create an ISO of my >>> install, upload that and then they effectively ‘dd’ it to the VPS, >>> which is cool, but I need to figure out how to create an image based >>> on a VirtualBox build on a Mac OS X system :) >> If they really just "dd" it, then a RAW image of your Virtualbox >> instance should work, shouldn't it? > I knew when I typed this that I shouldn’t have .. :) I don’t know what they do exactly, getting info out of htem is like pulling teeth … so far, I’m not even sure what I should be setting for ethernet configuration, although I’m suspecting “DHCP”, else I’d have to load a new ISO for each VPS I’m setting up … > >> Choose QCOW as the disk format in VirtualBox, and then use "qemu-img >> convert" to make a raw image. > I have several FreeBSD boxes, so if there is a method of converting from “XYZ -> ISO” using FreeBSD, that is cool too … I can make / configure the image on my desktop, upload to my server and do the conversion there … > > I can use qemu-img to pretty much convert to any format (except ISO) … but how do I get to that final step? > > Thinking this through … ppl make livecd’s, so this is obviously possible … does it make sense that that is all I need to do? Although I’ve never done it, mind you, but if I were to upload a regular liveCD, and they installed / booted that, that should be it … or am I overlookign something? > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Hello Marc, Sounds like the last thing you need is to mount the image, and use mkisofs to make your own iso There are examples here, https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/creating-cds.html and there are also tools for making releases or custom releases in /usr/src/releaseoutlined in man 7 release Which might be easier to use and customize than coercing a VirtualBox image into something useful. But, the basic command for making an ISO is something like this: |# mkisofs -R -o /tmp/FreeBSD-Custom.iso /path/to/my/mounted/disk/image| You might need to change the options to suit your needs, though. It's been awhile since I last made custom CDs. Hope that helps.=) Regards, Lacey