Installing pc bsd in virtualbox

Partitioning can again be left to the system. Use left or right arrow keys to toggle to Ok and hit Enter to make you choice. The ZFS configuration option can be left to the default, but if you want to learn more about what any of that means you can follow this link.

The data will be striped on a single virtual disk. And say yes, when it warns you that this will destroy all data on this disk. Now we wait as files are extracted from the OS image. It will then prompt you to set a new root password and confirm it. Select Ok and hit enter. On a real server with multiple interfaces you would have to be a bit more careful, but a single interface VM is not that complicated. You can say no to IPv6, if you like. Then you get to select your Time Zone and optionally set your time and date as well.

You should select either UTC or your region. Then we move on to setting data and time, this is pretty standard. You also get to install a few system services.

I like to go with sshd for remote access , ntpd for time synchronization and moused. Opening the downloaded file will start the installation walkthrough. Visit the official FreeBSD releases page. The disk images are listed in order of release date , so the most recent release can be found at the top of the page as highlighted.

After clicking the link, you will be redirected to a file directory containing multiple formats and versions of the FreeBSD installer. NOTE: Although there is a section on the release page for virtual machines, do not download those options for VirtualBox.

VirtualBox cannot read. For Virtual Machines, the format you are looking for is the file ending in -disk. Click this file and it will start downloading the installer. The program will then guide you through hard disk setup. The default settings work perfectly for FreeBSD. The next step is to choose between dynamic and fixed-sized installation. The Dynamic allocation allows the hard disk file to accumulate in size, whereas fixing the HDD file size creates the file at maximum size.

Select the operating system type:. Allocate a disk size for your VM:. Once the VM creation is finished, the installer will start automatically.